| 1. |
Who defined political science is “that part of social science which treats the foundations of the foundations of the state and principles of government”? |
| A. | Paul Janet |
| B. | Dyke |
| C. | Gettell |
| D. | None of it |
| Answer» A. Paul Janet | |
| 2. |
Who is the author of “A History of Political Theory”? |
| A. | Karl Popper |
| B. | Sabine |
| C. | Mill |
| D. | Locke |
| Answer» B. Sabine | |
| 3. |
Who described historical approach as ‘historicism’? |
| A. | Bentham |
| B. | Hegel |
| C. | Popper |
| D. | Marx |
| Answer» C. Popper | |
| 4. |
Which approach is, according to Rober A Dahl, an attempt to make the empirical content of Political Science more scientific “ |
| A. | Institutional Approach |
| B. | Historical Approach |
| C. | Philosophical Approach |
| D. | Behavioural Approach |
| Answer» D. Behavioural Approach | |
| 5. |
Who introduced ‘intellectual foundations’ for behavioural approach? |
| A. | Easton |
| B. | Merriam |
| C. | Lasswell |
| D. | Bentley |
| Answer» A. Easton | |
| 6. |
Who said “the concept of power is the most fundamental in the whole of Political Science: the Political Process is the shaping, dissolution and exercise of power” ? |
| A. | Merriam and Easton |
| B. | Lasswell and Kaplan |
| C. | Catlin and Bentley |
| D. | None of them |
| Answer» B. Lasswell and Kaplan | |
| 7. |
Who is known as the greatest advocate of Post-Behaviouralism? |
| A. | Merriam |
| B. | Easton |
| C. | Lasswell |
| D. | Bentley |
| Answer» B. Easton | |
| 8. |
Which approach demands ‘relevance’ and ‘action’? |
| A. | Institutional Approach |
| B. | Post-Behaviouralist Approach |
| C. | Behaviouralist |
| D. | Historical Approach |
| Answer» B. Post-Behaviouralist Approach | |
| 9. |
Whose definition encompasses the ‘politics of consent’ as well as the ‘politics of struggle’? |
| A. | Easton |
| B. | Merriam |
| C. | Lasswell |
| D. | Kaplan |
| Answer» A. Easton | |
| 10. |
Who introduced ‘politics of consent’ ? |
| A. | Lasswell |
| B. | Kaplan |
| C. | Popper |
| D. | Lucian Pie |
| Answer» A. Lasswell | |
| 11. |
Which approach featurise “State being the central theme of politics is conceived as an inevitable consequence of class contradictions”? |
| A. | Post-Behaviouralism |
| B. | Marxian Approach |
| C. | Behaviouralism |
| D. | Institutional Approach |
| Answer» B. Marxian Approach | |
| 12. |
Who said “Marxian approach is not a matter of problems to be solved but a state of domination and subjugation to be ended by a total transformation of the conditions which give rise to it” |
| A. | Lenin |
| B. | Mao |
| C. | Miliband |
| D. | Engels |
| Answer» C. Miliband | |
| 13. |
The term ‘state’ is derived from which language? |
| A. | Latin |
| B. | Greek |
| C. | English |
| D. | None of it |
| Answer» A. Latin | |
| 14. |
Who defined “the state is the politically organised people of a definite territory” ? |
| A. | Bluntschli |
| B. | Wilson |
| C. | Machiavelli |
| D. | Aristotle |
| Answer» A. Bluntschli | |
| 15. |
Who said, state is a “territorial society divided into government and subjects whose relationships are determined by the exercise of this supreme coercive power” ? |
| A. | Laski |
| B. | Mao |
| C. | Wilson |
| D. | Marx |
| Answer» A. Laski | |
| 16. |
ho introduced the “subjective desire of the people”? |
| A. | Willoughby |
| B. | Hobbes |
| C. | Iver |
| D. | Laski |
| Answer» A. Willoughby | |
| 17. |
Who said “State is an association which acting through law as promulgated by a government endowed to this end with coercive power,..condition of social order”? |
| A. | Laski |
| B. | Willoughby |
| C. | Lenin |
| D. | Mac Iver |
| Answer» D. Mac Iver | |
| 18. |
Who defined an association as “a group organised for the pursuit of an interest or a group of interest in common”? |
| A. | Mao |
| B. | Iver |
| C. | Willoughby |
| D. | Jellinick |
| Answer» B. Iver | |
| 19. |
Who said “state is a political instrument a machine for maintaining the rule of one class over another” ? |
| A. | Lenin |
| B. | Popper |
| C. | Gettell |
| D. | Mao |
| Answer» A. Lenin | |
| 20. |
hose treatise, “the origin of the Family, Private Property and the State”? |
| A. | Marx |
| B. | Engels |
| C. | Lenin |
| D. | Mao |
| Answer» A. Marx | |
| 21. |
Who is the author of the book ‘Ancient Society’? |
| A. | Morgan; Engels |
| B. | Popper |
| C. | Maine |
| D. | Mao |
| Answer» A. Morgan; Engels | |
| 22. |
Who wrote ‘The poverty of Philosophy’? |
| A. | Mao |
| B. | Lenin |
| C. | Marx |
| D. | Engels |
| Answer» C. Marx | |
| 23. |
Who wrote “State and Revolution”? |
| A. | Engels |
| B. | Marx |
| C. | Mao |
| D. | Lenin |
| Answer» D. Lenin | |
| 24. |
Who wrote “Anti-Duhring” |
| A. | Engels |
| B. | Marx |
| C. | Lenin |
| D. | Mao |
| Answer» A. Engels | |
| 25. |
Who defined sovereignty as the ‘the supreme power over citizens and subjects unrestrained by laws’ ? |
| A. | Garner |
| B. | Jean Bodin |
| C. | Austin |
| D. | Gilchrist |
| Answer» B. Jean Bodin | |
| 26. |
Who is the exponent of Monistic theory of sovereignty ? |
| A. | Jean Bodin |
| B. | Garner |
| C. | Austin |
| D. | Maine |
| Answer» C. Austin | |
| 27. |
Who defined sovereignty is “the sum total of the influences in a state which lie behind the law” ? |
| A. | Austin |
| B. | Dicey |
| C. | Gilchrist |
| D. | Garner |
| Answer» C. Gilchrist | |
| 28. |
Who defined sovereignty on the basis of the concept of law as “a command given by a superior to an inferior” |
| A. | Grotius |
| B. | Hobbes |
| C. | Locke |
| D. | Austin |
| Answer» D. Austin | |
| 29. |
Who criticise sovereignty does not reside in a determinate human superior ? |
| A. | Hobbes |
| B. | Austin |
| C. | Grotius |
| D. | Maine |
| Answer» D. Maine | |
| 30. |
Who said ‘Kinship created a common consciousness, common interest and common purpose’ ? |
| A. | Gettell |
| B. | Maine |
| C. | MacIver |
| D. | Austin |
| Answer» B. Maine | |
| 31. |
Find the wrong one of this list? |
| A. | Laski |
| B. | Hobbes |
| C. | MacIver |
| D. | Lindsay |
| Answer» B. Hobbes | |
| 32. |
Who points , because society is federal, authority must also be federal? |
| A. | Maine |
| B. | MacIver |
| C. | Bentham |
| D. | Laski |
| Answer» D. Laski | |
| 33. |
Who opined that ‘the logical consequence of Pluralism is chaos’ ? |
| A. | MacIver |
| B. | Gilchrist |
| C. | Ernest Barker |
| D. | Laski |
| Answer» B. Gilchrist | |
| 34. |
Whose work is “Modern State” |
| A. | Laski |
| B. | Lindsay |
| C. | Bodin |
| D. | MacIver |
| Answer» D. MacIver | |
| 35. |
Who is the author of ‘Crisis in the Theory of State’ ? |
| A. | Laski |
| B. | Krabbe |
| C. | Barker |
| D. | MacIver |
| Answer» A. Laski | |
| 36. |
Who is the great liberal writer of the 17th century ? |
| A. | Austin |
| B. | Locke |
| C. | Gilchrist |
| D. | None of them |
| Answer» B. Locke | |
| 37. |
Which is the work of Montesquieu ? |
| A. | Ant-Duhring |
| B. | State and Revolution |
| C. | The Spirit of Laws |
| D. | The poverty of philosophy |
| Answer» C. The Spirit of Laws | |
| 38. |
Who said , there is no better test of the excellence of a government, than the efficiency of the judicial system’ ? |
| A. | James Bryce |
| B. | Laski |
| C. | MacIver |
| D. | Bentham |
| Answer» A. James Bryce | |
| 39. |
Who said “every state is enormously dependent upon the quality of its public officials”? |
| A. | MacIver |
| B. | Laski |
| C. | Dicey |
| D. | James Bryce |
| Answer» B. Laski | |
| 40. |
In which case Judicial Review was originated in the United States ? |
| A. | Strader v/s Graham |
| B. | Sheldon v/s Sill |
| C. | Swift v/s Tyson |
| D. | Marbury v/s Madison |
| Answer» D. Marbury v/s Madison | |
| 41. |
Which Article vide the power of Judicial Review is clearly engrafted into the Constitution of India ? |
| A. | Article 12 |
| B. | Article 13 |
| C. | Article 14 |
| D. | Article 15 |
| Answer» B. Article 13 | |
| 42. |
Which work is written by Dicey? |
| A. | Modern States |
| B. | the History of the States |
| C. | Introduction to the Study of Law of the Constitution |
| D. | The Spirit of Laws |
| Answer» C. Introduction to the Study of Law of the Constitution | |
| 43. |
Who wrote ‘The Process of Government’ |
| A. | Arthur Bentley |
| B. | Graham Wallas |
| C. | Charles Merriam |
| D. | David Easton |
| Answer» A. Arthur Bentley | |
| 44. |
Whose work is “Human Nature in Politics” |
| A. | Dicey |
| B. | Wallas |
| C. | Laski |
| D. | Merriam |
| Answer» B. Wallas | |
| 45. |
Who wrote “New Aspects of Politis” |
| A. | Wallas |
| B. | Laski |
| C. | Merriam |
| D. | Bentley |
| Answer» C. Merriam | |
| 46. |
Find out the work of Lasswell and Kaplan |
| A. | Systematic Politics |
| B. | The Politics of System |
| C. | Power and Society |
| D. | Introduction to Politics |
| Answer» C. Power and Society | |
| 47. |
Who wrote “The Political System” |
| A. | Almond |
| B. | Apter |
| C. | Lasswell |
| D. | Easton |
| Answer» D. Easton | |
| 48. |
The term ‘Historicism’ was made popular by |
| A. | Sabine |
| B. | Oakeshott |
| C. | Popper |
| D. | Foster |
| Answer» C. Popper | |
| 49. |
‘It is better to be vague than irrelevant’. This statement explains the following |
| A. | Post-behaviouralism |
| B. | Behaviouralism |
| C. | Positivism |
| D. | Empiricism |
| Answer» A. Post-behaviouralism | |
| 50. |
The Iron Law of Oligarchy is associated with |
| A. | Millett |
| B. | Michels |
| C. | McConnell |
| D. | Mazzini |
| Answer» B. Michels | |
| 51. |
Who regarded revolution as a means of achieving freedom? |
| A. | Hegel |
| B. | Dahl |
| C. | John Milton |
| D. | Karl Marx |
| Answer» C. John Milton | |
| 52. |
Human consciousness postulates liberty, liberty involves rights, rights demand the state, who has made this statement? |
| A. | Hegel |
| B. | Green |
| C. | Laski |
| D. | Barker |
| Answer» B. Green | |
| 53. |
Which factor is necessary for the development of democratic institutions? |
| A. | strong military forces |
| B. | respect for individual rights |
| C. | a one-party system |
| D. | an agricultural economy |
| Answer» B. respect for individual rights | |
| 54. |
Who said “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” ? |
| A. | Lord Acton |
| B. | David Apter |
| C. | A.V. Dicey |
| D. | Montesquieu |
| Answer» A. Lord Acton | |
| 55. |
Parliamentary form of government first involved in |
| A. | Greece |
| B. | The United Kingdom |
| C. | The United States |
| D. | Rome |
| Answer» B. The United Kingdom | |
| 56. |
India has adopted Rule of Law on the pattern of |
| A. | Britain |
| B. | Japan |
| C. | Britain with certain modifications |
| D. | USA |
| Answer» C. Britain with certain modifications | |
| 57. |
Who said that Bureaucracy is “a regulated administrative system organized as a series of interrelated offices ? |
| A. | Max Weber |
| B. | Gladden |
| C. | F.M. Marx |
| D. | John A. Vieg |
| Answer» B. Gladden | |
| 58. |
The power to decide an election petition is vested in the |
| A. | Parliament |
| B. | Supreme Court |
| C. | High Courts |
| D. | Election Commission |
| Answer» C. High Courts | |
| 59. |
Who said, “Revolution is a sweeping fundamental change in the predominant myth of a social order”? |
| A. | G.S. Peter |
| B. | H Arendt |
| C. | Huntington |
| D. | Neumann |
| Answer» D. Neumann | |
| 60. |
Participation is an important element of every |
| A. | Monarchial System |
| B. | Oligarchical System |
| C. | Democratic System |
| D. | Aristocratic System |
| Answer» C. Democratic System | |
| 61. |
'If sovereignty is not absolute, no state will exist'. Who said this ? |
| A. | Laski |
| B. | Locke |
| C. | Austin |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. None of the above | |
| 62. |
According to Marx 'the Dictatorship of the proletariat' signifies ? |
| A. | A transitional state |
| B. | An ideal state |
| C. | An autocratic state |
| D. | A liberal states |
| Answer» A. A transitional state | |
| 63. |
Who said ‘Neutrality is’ one of the strongest bulworks of democracy ? |
| A. | F. M. Marx |
| B. | Peter Self |
| C. | Ajay Baseli |
| D. | O. P. Dwivedi |
| Answer» C. Ajay Baseli | |
| 64. |
“All administration means domination” who said this ? |
| A. | Weber |
| B. | Martin Albrow |
| C. | R. K. Merton |
| D. | Talcot Parsons |
| Answer» A. Weber | |
| 65. |
Who among the following first developed the concept of general system theory |
| A. | Colin Cherry |
| B. | Ludwig Von Bertallanffy |
| C. | Robert K Merton |
| D. | Talcott Parsons |
| Answer» B. Ludwig Von Bertallanffy | |
| 66. |
Democracy is meaningless without |
| A. | President and Congress |
| B. | Supreme Court and President |
| C. | A federal form of government |
| D. | Freedom of speech |
| Answer» D. Freedom of speech | |
| 67. |
Structural functionalism as a method was developed to study the politics of |
| A. | Modern totalitarianism |
| B. | Politics of developing countries |
| C. | Developed socialism |
| D. | Advanced Capitalism |
| Answer» B. Politics of developing countries | |
| 68. |
Who wrote “Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign |
| A. | Jeremy Bentham |
| B. | Robert Nozick |
| C. | M.K. Gandhi |
| D. | J.S. Mill |
| Answer» D. J.S. Mill | |
| 69. |
Gandhi describe himself as a |
| A. | Social democrat |
| B. | Philosophical anarchist |
| C. | Socialist |
| D. | Liberal |
| Answer» B. Philosophical anarchist | |
| 70. |
David Easton stated in his work, The Political System, 1953, that two kinds of political inputs are: |
| A. | Voting and impeachment |
| B. | Political action committees and political parties |
| C. | Demand and support |
| D. | Pressure and bribery |
| Answer» C. Demand and support | |
| 71. |
According to Aristotle, democracy is |
| A. | A genuine form of government |
| B. | The same as oligarchy |
| C. | A perverted form of government |
| D. | The same as polity |
| Answer» B. The same as oligarchy | |
| 72. |
Power is the capacity to |
| A. | Persuade |
| B. | Hold sovereignty |
| C. | Produce intended effects |
| D. | Exercise authority |
| Answer» B. Hold sovereignty | |
| 73. |
Authority is the right to |
| A. | Invoke tradition |
| B. | Nationhood |
| C. | Rule |
| D. | Delegate |
| Answer» A. Invoke tradition | |
| 74. |
Sovereignty refers to |
| A. | Ruling monarchs |
| B. | Ceremonial leaders |
| C. | Supreme courts |
| D. | The ultimate source of authority in society |
| Answer» A. Ruling monarchs | |
| 75. |
Which of the following is the function of political parties? |
| A. | Supervising interest groups |
| B. | Administering elections |
| C. | Aggregating (combining) interest |
| D. | Negotiating with foreign governments |
| Answer» C. Aggregating (combining) interest | |
| 76. |
The assignment of law-making, law-enforcing, and law-interpreting functions to independent branches of the government is called |
| A. | separation of powers |
| B. | checks and balances. |
| C. | enumerated powers. |
| D. | implied powers. |
| Answer» A. separation of powers | |
| 77. |
Social capital is based on |
| A. | Start up funding for voluntary organisations |
| B. | Widespread acceptance of the market economy |
| C. | Eastern Europe’s ‘third way’ |
| D. | A culture of trust and cooperation |
| Answer» D. A culture of trust and cooperation | |
| 78. |
Who introduced hegemony in the concept of civil society? |
| A. | Lenin |
| B. | Gramsci |
| C. | Hegel |
| D. | Marx |
| Answer» B. Gramsci | |
| 79. |
Who said ‘civilisation is not a burden, but it is an opportunity? |
| A. | Marx |
| B. | Gandhi |
| C. | Nehru |
| D. | Lenin |
| Answer» B. Gandhi | |
| 80. |
The Iron Law of Oligarchy is associated with |
| A. | Michels |
| B. | Millet |
| C. | Bentham |
| D. | Kant |
| Answer» A. Michels | |
| 81. |
Who wrote the work ‘a preface to democratic theory’? |
| A. | Dahl |
| B. | Marx |
| C. | Lenin |
| D. | MacIver |
| Answer» A. Dahl | |
| 82. |
The most essential principle of liberalism is |
| A. | Equality |
| B. | Social justice |
| C. | Democracy |
| D. | Freedom |
| Answer» D. Freedom | |
| 83. |
Who is guild socialist? |
| A. | Green |
| B. | Mill |
| C. | Cole |
| D. | Dicey |
| Answer» C. Cole | |
| 84. |
Socialism is: |
| A. | An economic system that is based on private ownership |
| B. | An economic system for communism |
| C. | An economic system that allows competition in business |
| D. | A government system that communist countries use |
| Answer» B. An economic system for communism | |
| 85. |
An institution is a form of |
| A. | Organisation |
| B. | Legal system |
| C. | Culture |
| D. | State |
| Answer» A. Organisation | |
| 86. |
Who said Politics is about 'who gets what, when and how'? |
| A. | Lasswell |
| B. | Almond |
| C. | Easton |
| D. | Verba |
| Answer» A. Lasswell | |
| 87. |
Social justice is primarily concerned with |
| A. | Who governs society |
| B. | How society is governed |
| C. | How society is defined |
| D. | Who should get what in society |
| Answer» D. Who should get what in society | |
| 88. |
Equality of opportunity means |
| A. | Everybody as equal right to complain |
| B. | Everybody finishes the same start in life |
| C. | Everybody finishes the same regardless of effort |
| D. | Everybody is equal |
| Answer» B. Everybody finishes the same start in life | |
| 89. |
Which one of the following countries introduced universal adult franchise is one move? |
| A. | Australia. |
| B. | USA |
| C. | India |
| D. | UK |
| Answer» C. India | |
| 90. |
Who among the following argued that universal suffrage does injustice to property owners? |
| A. | J.S. Mill |
| B. | W.F. Willoughby |
| C. | H.J. Laski |
| D. | Henry Maine |
| Answer» A. J.S. Mill | |
| 91. |
Who among the following described democracy as the ‘tyranny of the majority? |
| A. | James Madison |
| B. | John Dunning |
| C. | J Rousseau |
| D. | De Tocqueville |
| Answer» D. De Tocqueville | |
| 92. |
Who among the following is not an exponent of ‘Elitist Theory of Democracy’? |
| A. | Mosca |
| B. | Pareto |
| C. | Michel |
| D. | C Macpherson |
| Answer» D. C Macpherson | |
| 93. |
Who among the following advocated partyless democracy in India? |
| A. | Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
| B. | Jayprakash Narayan |
| C. | Mahatma Gandhi |
| D. | M.N. Roy |
| Answer» B. Jayprakash Narayan | |
| 94. |
Who among the following theorists advocated participatory democracy? |
| A. | C.B. Macpherson |
| B. | Michael Oakeshoot |
| C. | F. A. Hayek |
| D. | Gaetano Mosca |
| Answer» A. C.B. Macpherson | |
| 95. |
Who among the following has described the world wide triumph of liberal democracy as the ‘end of history’? |
| A. | Samuel P. Huntington |
| B. | Francis Fukuyama |
| C. | Robert Dahl |
| D. | C. Wright Mills |
| Answer» A. Samuel P. Huntington | |
| 96. |
Who among the following favoured qualification as the basis for right to vote? |
| A. | E. Barker |
| B. | T.H. Green |
| C. | J.S. Mill |
| D. | J. Bentham |
| Answer» C. J.S. Mill | |
| 97. |
Participatory democracy calls for: |
| A. | increasing the voter turnout in elections |
| B. | greater and active engagement of citizens in government |
| C. | greater involvement of the legislature in the business of legislature |
| D. | active engagement of the representatives in the affairs of their constituencies |
| Answer» B. greater and active engagement of citizens in government | |
| 98. |
Which is Canada’s political system? |
| A. | a confederal state |
| B. | a direct democracy |
| C. | a unitary state |
| D. | a parliamentary democracy |
| Answer» D. a parliamentary democracy | |
| 99. |
Rational-legal authority also known as |
| A. | Confederal |
| B. | Universal |
| C. | Democratic |
| D. | Bureaucratic |
| Answer» D. Bureaucratic | |
| 100. |
“A partyess regime is a conservative regime an anti-party regime is a reactionary regime.” Who made this statement? |
| A. | Samuel Huntington |
| B. | Sartori |
| C. | Carl J. Friedrich |
| D. | K.C. Wheare |
| Answer» B. Sartori | |