McqMate
These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (BA political science) .
| 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 | |
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