190+ Introduction to Political Science and Governmental Structures and Processes Solved MCQs

1.

Who is the father of Political Science?

A. marx
B. plato
C. austin
D. aristotle
Answer» D. aristotle
2.

Who called Political science as the Master Science?

A. cicero
B. hobbes
C. aristotle
D. socrates
Answer» C. aristotle
3.

The term city-state is generally associated with

A. china
B. egypt
C. greek
D. indian
Answer» C. greek
4.

Who said man is a social animal

A. plato
B. hobbes
C. rousseau
D. aristotle
Answer» D. aristotle
5.

Who said that ‘a man who lives outside the polis is either a beast or a God’

A. plato
B. aristotle
C. marx
D. hobbes
Answer» B. aristotle
6.

Political-Parties are indispensable for the successful working of

A. democracy
B. monarchy
C. theocracy
D. dictatorship
Answer» A. democracy
7.

Who wrote the book ‘Republic’?

A. bodin
B. locke
C. plato
D. cicero
Answer» C. plato
8.

The modern democracy is known as

A. peoples democracy
B. limited democracy
C. representative democracy
D. direct democracy
Answer» C. representative democracy
9.

The right to vote is a

A. civil right
B. moral right
C. natural right
D. political right
Answer» D. political right
10.

Who asserted that the state would ultimately wither away

A. plato
B. kant
C. laski
D. marx
Answer» D. marx
11.

A socialist state lays emphasis on

A. political liberty
B. economic equality
C. right to private property
D. independence of judiciary
Answer» B. economic equality
12.

Who defined democracy as “Government of the people, by the people, for the people”?

A. woodrow
B. abraham lincoln
C. laski
D. gandhi
Answer» B. abraham lincoln
13.

The head of the state under parliamentary form of government enjoys

A. absolute powers
B. limited powers
C. nominal powers
D. no powers
Answer» C. nominal powers
14.

The framers of the constitution borrowed the idea of fundamental rights from the constitution of

A. usa
B. ussr
C. britain
D. france
Answer» A. usa
15.

A Bicameral legislature consist of

A. one chamber
B. two chambers
C. three chambers
D. four chambers
Answer» B. two chambers
16.

The presidential government operates on the principle of

A. separation of powers
B. division of powers
C. fusion of powers
D. centralization of powers
Answer» A. separation of powers
17.

In which of the following forms of government the second chamber is an indispensable part of the legislature?

A. unitary government
B. federal government
C. parliamentary government
D. presidential government
Answer» B. federal government
18.

Division of powers between the centre and the states is an essential feature of

A. federal government
B. unitary government
C. presidential government
D. parliamentary government
Answer» A. federal government
19.

Which one of the following governments operates on the principle of collective responsibility?

A. parliamentary
B. presidential
C. unitary
D. federal
Answer» A. parliamentary
20.

Which of the following is also known as Laissez faire theory?

A. idealism
B. totalitarianism
C. socialism
D. individualism
Answer» D. individualism
21.

Which kind of right is the right to form Associations

A. civil right
B. legal right
C. political right
D. natural right
Answer» C. political right
22.

One party system is found in

A. india
B. britain
C. switzerland
D. china
Answer» D. china
23.

Popular Sovereignty means that sovereignty lies with

A. constitution
B. parliament
C. cabinet
D. people
Answer» D. people
24.

The theory of Surplus Value is associated with

A. adam smith
B. karl marx
C. amarthya sen
D. stalin
Answer» B. karl marx
25.

The Bible of Communism

A. communist manifesto
B. state and revolution
C. spirit of laws
D. the republic
Answer» A. communist manifesto
26.

If there is no division of powers that government is known as

A. parliamentary
B. federal
C. unitary
D. democratic
Answer» C. unitary
27.

The words ‘we the people of India’ in the preamble shows

A. legal sovereignty
B. popular sovereignty
C. de jure sovereignty
D. none of the above
Answer» B. popular sovereignty
28.

Which organ of the government makes interpretation of laws

A. the legislature
B. executive
C. civil service
D. judiciary
Answer» D. judiciary
29.

Indirect democracy is otherwise known as

A. socialist democracy
B. representative democracy
C. elite democracy
D. democratic republic
Answer» B. representative democracy
30.

Which party system is prevailing in China

A. one party system
B. one party dominant system
C. bi party system
D. multi party system
Answer» A. one party system
31.

’War is to man what maternity is to women’ is the slogan of

A. marxism
B. liberalism
C. fascism
D. gandhism
Answer» C. fascism
32.

Aggressive nationalism is the philosophy of

A. idealism
B. marxism
C. fascism
D. individualism
Answer» C. fascism
33.

A form of government in which everyone has a share is

A. aristocracy
B. monarchy
C. oligarchy
D. democracy
Answer» D. democracy
34.

Which part of the constitution aims at the establishment of a welfare state in India.

A. part iii
B. part iv
C. part v
D. part vi
Answer» B. part iv
35.

Scientific socialism was expounded by

A. rousseau
B. karl marx
C. j.s mill
D. plato
Answer» C. j.s mill
36.

The term ‘state’ in its modern sense was first used by ---------

A. aristotle
B. plato
C. machiavelli
D. bodin
Answer» C. machiavelli
37.

“State is a necessary evil” is associated with:

A. fabians
B. sophists
C. anarchists
D. individualists.
Answer» D. individualists.
38.

Who stated, membership of the state should be voluntary and optional.

A. j.s. mill
B. h.j. laski
C. spencer
D. austin
Answer» C. spencer
39.

Who said ‘state is an expansion of family’

A. aristotle
B. laski
C. austin
D. plato
Answer» A. aristotle
40.

“The state is an executive committee of the exploiting class” stated by;

A. individualists
B. anarchists
C. marxists
D. fascists
Answer» C. marxists
41.

The idealists who declared the state as “ march of God on Earth” is;

A. kant
B. hegel
C. green
D. rousseau
Answer» B. hegel
42.

Who said state is “ people organized for law within a definite territory”

A. wilson
B. marx
C. garner
D. lock
Answer» A. wilson
43.

Which of the following is not an element of state.

A. government
B. population
C. territory
D. religion
Answer» D. religion
44.

Who says ,” Good citizens made a good state and a bad citizen made a bad state”.

A. hobbes
B. lock
C. marx
D. aristotle.
Answer» D. aristotle.
45.

Which is the most populated state in the world?

A. usa
B. india
C. japan
D. china.
Answer» D. china.
46.

No state can exist without a fixed and definite………..

A. government
B. territory
C. population
D. liberty
Answer» B. territory
47.

The exponent of Scientific Socialism.

A. lock
B. rousseau
C. karl marx
D. laski
Answer» C. karl marx
48.

Who said, “ Kinship creates society and society at length creates the state”

A. maclver
B. gettel
C. j.s. mill
D. hobbes
Answer» A. maclver
49.

Modern state is described as :

A. police state
B. welfare state
C. laissez faire state
D. power state
Answer» B. welfare state
50.

Who said ‘state is prior to individual’

A. kant
B. green
C. aristotle
D. marx
Answer» C. aristotle
51.

The state is an association of associations is advocated by

A. bodin
B. laski
C. austin
D. barker
Answer» B. laski
52.

To whom , state is ‘ a unifying agency’ ?

A. figgis
B. c*cks
C. miss follett
D. barker
Answer» C. miss follett
53.

Who described the state as ‘the society of societies’

A. laski
B. mac lver
C. figgis
D. cole
Answer» C. figgis
54.

The term sovereignty has been drawn from the Latin word

A. soviet
B. supreme
C. supranus
D. sovereign
Answer» C. supranus
55.

Who said that sovereignty was the fullness of state .

A. greeks
B. english
C. romans
D. indians
Answer» C. romans
56.

The first exponent of legal sovereignty .

A. rousseau
B. green
C. hobbes
D. lock
Answer» C. hobbes
57.

“ sovereignty was absolute , no state exists” who said this ?

A. bodin
B. austin
C. lock
D. hobbes
Answer» B. austin
58.

Who described law as a command of the sovereign.

A. locke
B. hobbes
C. laski
D. austin
Answer» D. austin
59.

In India the legal sovereignty lies in the ……….

A. supreme court
B. parliament
C. president
D. states
Answer» B. parliament
60.

Rousseau was the advocate of …….

A. individual sovereignty
B. popular sovereignty
C. political sovereignty
D. legal sovereignty
Answer» B. popular sovereignty
61.

Who said that “ man is born free , and everywhere he is in chains”

A. rousseau
B. marx
C. aristotle
D. austin
Answer» A. rousseau
62.

Basic feature of pluralist concept of sovereignty?

A. concentration of power
B. exclusiveness
C. divisibility
D. absoluteness.
Answer» C. divisibility
63.

Who said “sovereignty is the supreme will of the state”

A. austin
B. bodin
C. willoughby
D. locke
Answer» C. willoughby
64.

Which one of the following is not a characteristic of sovereignty.

A. permanence
B. inclusiveness.
C. absoluteness
D. indivisibility
Answer» D. indivisibility
65.

Who gave the concept of external sovereignty ?

A. grotius
B. locke
C. austin
D. laski
Answer» A. grotius
66.

The term ‘political sovereignty’ is associated with:

A. lock.
B. rousseau
C. lowell
D. laski
Answer» A. lock.
67.

The term ‘popular sovereignty’ means sovereignty lies with:

A. people
B. constitution
C. society
D. state
Answer» A. people
68.

Austin was the chief exponent of ……………….sovereignty.

A. pluralistic
B. monistic
C. political
D. popular
Answer» B. monistic
69.

Which of the following states is not a republic

A. india
B. america
C. france
D. britain
Answer» D. britain
70.

Sovereignty of the state means

A. coercive power of the state
B. executive power of the state
C. judicial power of the state
D. supreme power of the state
Answer» D. supreme power of the state
71.

The exponent of legal theory of Rights.

A. green
B. locke
C. austin
D. rousseau
Answer» C. austin
72.

Who said, "Rights are those conditions of social life without which no man seek to be himself at his best"?

A. wilde
B. plato
C. locke
D. laski
Answer» D. laski
73.

Who says ,"a right is a claim recognized by society and enforced by the state"?

A. aristotle
B. cicero
C. bosanquet
D. mill
Answer» C. bosanquet
74.

Who said, "A right is a power claimed and recognized as contributory to common good"?

A. laski
B. t.h.green
C. aristotle
D. lord bryce
Answer» B. t.h.green
75.

In pre-political state of human existence, there existed:

A. civil rights
B. political rights
C. natural rights
D. legal rights
Answer» C. natural rights
76.

Who said that 'One's natural rights are one's natural power' ?

A. locke
B. rousseau
C. hobbes
D. laski
Answer» C. hobbes
77.

Who wrotes the book "the Rights of Man"?

A. edmund burke
B. thomas paine
C. locke
D. green
Answer» B. thomas paine
78.

Rights have no validity without the recognition of:

A. government
B. state
C. society
D. electorate
Answer» B. state
79.

According to the historical theory of rights, rights are the result of:

A. evolution
B. human efforts
C. nation efforts
D. legislation
Answer» A. evolution
80.

Who regarded, 'life, liberty and property as inalienable rights of Men’?

A. locke
B. aristotle
C. rousseau
D. hobbes
Answer» A. locke
81.

The legal theory of rights points out that rights are created by:

A. state
B. society
C. community
D. nature
Answer» A. state
82.

The theory of social welfare was expounded by:

A. utilitarians
B. socialist
C. marxists
D. fabians
Answer» A. utilitarians
83.

Who says, "Rights have no meaning without social unity"?

A. bentham
B. laski
C. j. s. mill
D. dean pound
Answer» B. laski
84.

Who are the chief exponents of social welfare theory?

A. green
B. hegel
C. bentham and mill
D. locke
Answer» C. bentham and mill
85.

Rousseau supports the idealist theory of Rights on the basis of:

A. morality
B. natural law
C. general will
D. social consciousness
Answer» C. general will
86.

According to Green, the basis of rights is:

A. legal sanction
B. legal recognition
C. common moral consciousness
D. gift of the state
Answer» C. common moral consciousness
87.

Who put forward the economic theory of rights:

A. locke
B. ricardo
C. karl marx
D. hitler
Answer» C. karl marx
88.

According to Marxists, rights are:

A. privileges of all people
B. privileges of all classes
C. privileges of a particular class safe guarded by law
D. privileges for economically weaker sections
Answer» C. privileges of a particular class safe guarded by law
89.

Right to property is a :

A. political right
B. civil
C. natural
D. moral
Answer» B. civil
90.

The term liberty has been drawn from the Latin word ………

A. libel
B. lebour
C. liber
D. labal
Answer» C. liber
91.

Who of the following was an advocate of positive liberty

A. lock
B. t.h. green
C. bentham
D. j.s. mill
Answer» B. t.h. green
92.

The concept of natural liberty is associated with

A. hegal
B. locke
C. rousseau
D. hobbes
Answer» C. rousseau
93.

Which theory deals with natural liberty.

A. divine origin theory
B. force theory
C. social contract theory
D. evolutionary theory
Answer» C. social contract theory
94.

Who was the author of the book ‘ On Liberty’ ?

A. green
B. laski
C. j.s. mill
D. marx
Answer» C. j.s. mill
95.

Civil liberty is inherent in the laws of

A. society
B. state
C. nature
D. organization
Answer» B. state
96.

Which part of Indian constitution guarantees liberty to citizen.

A. d.p.s.p
B. fundamental right
C. preamble
D. vii
Answer» B. fundamental right
97.

Who says “ where there is no law there is no freedom.

A. rousseau
B. green
C. locke
D. laski.
Answer» D. laski.
98.

Term justice has been drawn from the Latin word .

A. just
B. joint
C. jus
D. judge
Answer» C. jus
99.

……………. View that justice and equality are closely connected

A. individualists
B. idealists
C. socialists
D. anarchists
Answer» A. individualists
100.

Constitution is an instrument of …… justice

A. political
B. social
C. legal
D. economic
Answer» C. legal
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