Unit 4 of Political Science – II (syllabus: Module IV — the significance of political parties in India, how they differ from interest groups, the features of Indian parties and coalition politics; political legitimacy and democracy — the consent of the governed, the conditions essential for success, ethical decay, and the old and new challenges to Indian democracy; and democratic decentralisation — Gandhian Gram Swaraj, Article 40 and the 73rd and 74th Amendments, the Gram Sabha and participatory democracy, and the implications for gender and social inclusion). Below: what the unit covers, the provisions it turns on, and the cases an examiner expects you to name.