MAHATMA GANDHI UNIVERSITY
(PRIVATE REGISTRATION)
B. A POLITICAL SCIENCE
CBCS UG SEMESTER 1
COMPLEMENTARY COURSE – AN INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL SCIENCE
QUESTION BANK
1. Which of the following are the features on the basis of which the parliamentary system of
government operates?
a) Nominal and real executives
b) Executive responsible to lower house
c) Prime Minister is the real executive
d) All of the above
2. Which is not a feature of Presidential form of government?
a) Single executive
b) Fixed tenure of executive
c) Checks and balances
d) Dissolution of lower house.
3. The concept of Rights, Property, Liberty, Equality and Justice are related to—
a) Dictatorship
b) Aristocracy
c) Democracy
d) Oligarchy
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4. The legal theory of Rights believes that—
a) The rights are created by the state
b) The rights are created by the nature
c) The rights are created by the society
d) The rights are eternal
5. Civil rights are given to the individuals by—
a)The State
b) The People
c) Nature
d) Society
6. Who said, “Liberty is the opposite of Over Government”
a) Locke
b) Laski
c) Hobbes
d) Seeley
7. Who first gave the Concept of ‘Distributive Justice’?
a) Plato
b)Aristotle
c) Machiavelli
d)Locke
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8. In Democracy, source of Authority is vested in—
a) The People
b) The Party
c) Constitution
d) Law
9. Landsgemeinde is a direct democratic institutions in which country
a) France
b) USA
c) Switzerland
d) UK
10. Who is the author of ‘A Grammar of Politics’?
a) Mill
b) Rousseau
c) Lasswell
d)Laski
11. ‘ Administrative law ‘is popular in
a)England
b)France
c) U.S.A.
d)Italy
12. “State is known by the rights that it maintains” who said?
a)Russell
b)Woodrow Wilson
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c)Janet
d)Laski
13. Which law is popular in England?
a)Administrative Law
b)Rule of Law
c) Ordinance
d)Statute law
14. What is the maximum term provided for an ordinance?
a)8 months
b)6months
c)9months
d)12 months
15. Who authored Modern State?
a)Gettell
b)Gilchrist
c)Bluntschli
d)Mac Iver
16. Which among the following is a Political right?
a) Right to hold public office
b)right to freedom
c)right against exploitation
d)right to work
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17. Negative liberty implies that,
a)Freedom should be unlimited
b)Freedom should be restricted
c)Freedom from wants
d)Freedom to rule
18. Which law is made by the legislature?
a)International law
b)Statutory law
c)Common law
d)natural law
19. Rousseau authored the book
a)Social Contract
b)Republic
c)The Prince
d)Politics
20. Which day is observed as International Human Rights Day?
a)December 1
b)December 10
c)June 5
d)April 2
21 Who defined law as ‘ the command of the sovereign’?
a)Austin
b)Mill
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c)Marx
d)Rousseau
22. The essential principle of modern justice is
A. Judges should be part of executive
B. There should be independence of judiciary
C. The judges should be under the control of the Head of the State
D. The judges should be under the control of the electorate
23. The word democracy means,
a)Power of the government
b) Power of the representatives
c) Power of the people
d) Power of the executive
24. ‘Who Governs’ is a work by
a)A.B.Hall
b)Laski
c)Robert.A. Dahl
d)Plato
25. Direct democracy was established in
a)Ancient Greek city-states
b)Latin American states
c)Ancient India
d)African states
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26. Direct democracy is now practice in
a)Cantons of Switzerland
b) States of India
c)China
d)England
27. Referendum means
a) Refer to the judiciary
b) Refer to the legislature
c) Refer to the executive
d) Refer to the people
28. Plebiscite is a word derived from,
a)Plebiscitum
b) Plebiscite
c) Public
d)plebian
29. Plebiscite means
a)people’s opinion
b)people’s decree
c)people’s decision
d)people’s vote
30. Republican Party belongs to
a)France
b)U.K
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c)U.A.E
d)U.S.A
31. Which of the following country follows a multi party system
a)China
b)England
c) France
d) USA
32. Which is known as the citadel of democracy?
a)Athens
b)America
c)India
d)Switzerland
33. Who defined political science is “that part of social science which treats the foundations of
the state and principles of government”?
a) Paul Janet
b) Dyke
c) Gettell
d)None of it
34. Who introduced ‘intellectual foundations stones’ for behavioural approach?
a) Easton
b) Merriam
c) Lasswell
d) Bentley
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35. 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
36. Who said PoliticalScience is the sharing and shaping up of of power”?
a)Merriam
b)Lasswell
c) Catlin
d)None of them
37. Who is known as the greatest advocate of Post-Behaviouralism?
a) Merriam
b)Easton
c) Lasswell
d) Bentley
38. Which approach demands ‘relevance’ and ‘action’?
a) Institutional Approach
b) Post-Behaviouralist Approach
c) Behaviouralist
d) Historical Approach
39. Who introduced ‘politics of consent’?
a). Lasswell
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b). Kaplan
c) Popper
d) Lucian Pie
40. Which approach considers “State being an engine of tyranny and exploitation?
a) Post-Behaviouralism
b) Marxian Approach
c) Behaviouralism
d) Institutional Approach
41. The term ‘state’ is derived from which language?
a)Latin
b)Greek
c)English
d) None of it
42. Who defined “the state is the politically organised people of a definite territory”?
a) Bluntschli
b) Wilson
c) Machiavelli
d) Aristotle
43. 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
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44. Whose treatise, “the origin of the Family, Private Property and the State”?
a) Marx
b) Engels
c) Lenin
d) Mao
45. Who is the author of the book ‘Ancient Society’?
a) Morgan
b)Popper
c)Maine
d) Mao
46. Who defined sovereignty as the ‘the supreme power over citizens and subjects unrestrained
by laws’?
a) Garner
b) Jean Bodin
c) Austin
d) Gilchrist
47. Which one of the following is not an element of the state?
a) Government
b) Sovereignty
c) Associations
d) Territory
48. Who defined law is the command of sovereign
a) Grotius
b) Hobbes
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c) Locke
d) Austin
49. Who said ‘Kinship creates society and society at length creates the state
a) Gettell
b) Maine
c) MacIver
d) Austin
50. Who points, because society is federal, authority must also be federal?
a) Maine
b) MacIver
c) Bentham
d) Laski
51. Whose work is ‘ Das Capital ‘
a) Karl Marx
b) Lindsay
c) Bodin
d) MacIver
52. What is the first virtue of social institution, according to Rawls?
a) Wealth
b) Strength
c) Militarism
d) Justice.
53. To what domain did Rawls direct his views of justice?
a) Political Domain
b) Medical domain
c) financial domain
d) private domain
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54. Rawls conceives of the original contract as one to:
a) enter a particular society
b) set up a particular form of government
c) establish the principles of justice for the basic structure of society
d) establish the content of morality
55. ‘Theory of Justice’ is a work by:
a) Aristotle
b) Henry Min
c) John Rawls
d) M E Bayels
56. Which is the work of Montesquieu?
a) Ant-Duhring
b) State and Revolution
c) The Spirit of Laws
d) The poverty of philosophy
57. Shadow cabinet is a system prevails in which country
a) U K
b) Japan
c) India
d) France
58. Deliberative democracy involves
a) Politicians consulting their ministerial colleagues before taking decisions
b) Every major political decisions being taken after referendum
c) Extensive public debate before taking decisions
d) None of the above
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59. Who said, “The God, who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time ?
a ) Adam Smith
b) Mahatma Gandhi
c) Jefferson
d) T. H. Green
60. 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
61. Who wrote ‘The Process of Government’
a) Arthur Bentley
b) Graham Wallas
c) Charles Merriam
d) David Easton
62. Whose work is “Human Nature in Politics”
a) Dicey
b) Wallas
c) Laski
d) Merriam
63. Who wrote “New Aspects of Politis”
a) Wallas
b) Laski
c) Merriam
d) Bentley
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64. Who wrote “The Political System”
a) Almond
b) Apter
c) Lasswell
d) Easton
65. ‘It is better to be vague than irrelevant’. This statement explains the following
a) Post-behaviouralism
b) Behaviouralism
c) Positivism
d) Empiricism
66. Who introduced the concept of natural rights?
a) John Locke
b) Green
c) Laski
d) Barker
67. Legal theory of right was propounded by
a) Mac Iver
b) Laski
c) Hegel
d) Barker
68. 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
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69. Parliamentary form of government first involved in
a) Greece
b) The United Kingdom
c) The United States
d) Rome
70. India has adopted Rule of Law on the pattern of
a) France
b) Japan
c) Britain with certain modifications
d) USA
71. A direct vote on a law in which the entire electorate can participate is known as ”?
a) Referendum
b) Public Opinion
c) Initiative
d) Veto
72. Participation is an important element of every
a) Monarchial System
b) Oligarchic System
c) Democratic System
d) Aristocratic System
73. Which act is considered the watch dog of democracy?
a) The right to property Act
b) The Right to Live Act
c) The Right to Information Act
d) None of these
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74. 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
75. 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
76. Democracy is meaningless without
a )President and Congress
b) Supreme Court and President
c) A federal form of government
d) Freedom of speech
77. Structural functionalism as a method was developed to study the politics of
a) Modern totalitarianism
b) Developing countries
c) Developed socialism
d) Advanced Capitalism
78. Who wrote the book ‘Comparative Politics: A Development Approach
a) Almond and Powell
b) David Easton and Robert A Dhal
c) Andrew Haywood
d) Weber and Lucian Pie
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79. 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
80. Gandhi describe himself as a
a) Social democrat
b) Philosophical anarchist
c) Socialist
d) Liberal
81. According to Aristotle, democracy is
a) A genuine form of government
b) Same as oligarchy
c)A perverted form of government
d) Same as polity
82. The term ‘lag’ denotes
a) something which lies fixed
b) something strong
c) something legal
d) something changeable
83. Power is the capacity to
a) Persuade
b) Hold sovereignty
c) Produce intended effects
d) Exercise authority
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84. Who wrote the work ‘A Preface to Democratic Theory’?
a) Dahl
b) Marx
c) Lenin
d) MacIver
85. The most essential principle of liberalism is
a) Equality
b) Social justice
c) Democracy
d) Freedom
86. 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
87. Who said Politics is about 'who gets what, when and how'?
a) Lasswell
b) Almond
c) Easton
d) Verba
88. Who introduced the concept of negative and positive rights?
a) Andrew Haywood
b) Laski
c) John Locke
d) Barker
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89. 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?
90. 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
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
92. Conception of negative liberty emphasizes:
a) Freedom of choice
b) Autonomy
c) Absence of interference
d) self determination
93. Who among the following advocated party less democracy in India?
a) Acharya Vinoba Bhave
b) Jayprakash Narayan
c) Mahatma Gandhi
d) M.N. Roy
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94. What did Gandhiji mean by Swaraj?
a) Freedom of the country
b) freedom for the meanest of the countrymen
c) Self government
d) complete independence
95. Who among the following theorists advocated participatory democracy?
a) C.B. Macpherson
b) Michael Oakeshoot
c) F. A. Hayek
d) Gaetano Mosca
96.Which of the following does not lead to the spread of democracy?
a) Struggle by the people
b) End of colonialism
c) Invasion by foreign countries
d) People’s desire for freedom
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
98. The advocates of deliberative democracy emphasize
a) executive supremacy
b) parliamentary sovereignty
c) Judicial autonomy
d) popular participation
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99. The Communist manifesto was first published in
a) Russian
b) English
c) German
d) French
100 who said “… Nothing is more disgraceful for a brave man to live life devoid of self respect”
a) B R Ambedkar
b) Gandhi
c) Jayaprakash Narayan
d) Nehru
101. According to David Easton, the main function of government is to:
a) provide social order, national security, and public goods
b) guarantee constitutional rights
c) levy tax on people to run the political system
d) allocate authoritatively values for a whole society.
102. The term ‘politics’ was derived from two words ‘polis’ and ‘polity’ in which language
a) Greek
b) Latin
c) English
d) French
103. Who defined politics as “the authoritative allocation of values that are binding on the
society?”
a) John Lock
b) J.S. Mill
c) David Easton
d) Almond
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104. Who contributed the work ‘the Politics’?
a) Aristotle
b) Plato
c) Socrates
d) Machiavelli
105. The development of Political Science as a discipline can be traced back to
a) 4th century B.C
b) 3rd century B.C
c) 5th century B.C.
d) 6th century B.C.
106. In the Classical or Normative period, the study of politics reflected
a) A normative concern and deductive method explanation
b) Behavioural study of politics
c) Values oriented study of politics
d) None of these
107. Who was the first proponent of scientific study of Politics?
a) Charles Merriam
b) Harold D Lasswell
c) George Catlin
d) Arthur Bentley
108. Who said this , ‘behavioural approach is a protest movement within politics science and
make the empirical component more rigorous’
a) Charles Merriam
b) Robert A Dahl
c) George Catlin
d) Arthur Bentley
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109. Eighth principles of the behavioural approach of political science generally known as
a) Verifications
b) Pure science
c) Intellectual foundations
d) Observational study
110. Who wrote the book ‘Four Essays on Liberty’?
a) Herbert Spencer
b) Earnest Barker
c) J S Mill
d) Isaiah Berlin
111. Who was the most ardent advocate of Post Behaviouralism?
a) David Easton
b) C Wright Mills
c) Robert Dahl
d) Harold D Lasswell
112. The strong demands of Post behaviouralists are
a) Pure science
b) Relevance and action
c) Value
d) None of these
113. Historical materialism is one of the tools in
a) Behaviouralism
b) Utilitarianism
c) Marxism
d) Post behaviouralism
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114. Whose work is Lecturers on Jurisprudence”?
a) Gilchrist
b) John Austin
c) A.V. Dicey
d) Garner
115. Who wrote the work “Representative Government”?
a) Lowell
b) T.H. Green
c) J.S. Mill
d) Laski
116. Which of the following is not a traditional approach to the study of Political Science?
a) Simulation
b) Legal institutionalism
c) Historiography
d) Comparison
117. Whose work is “A History of Political Theory?”
a) Catlin
b) Duverger
c) Deutsch
d) George Sabine
118. The ancient Greeks used the following word for the term ‘state’
a) Republica
b) Polis
c) Republic
d) Commonwealth
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119. What is Constitutional Law?
a) Provisions given in the Constitution
b) Law to make Constitution
c) Law to set up Constituent Assembly
d) none of the above
120. The most common form that democracy takes in our time is that of
a) Limited democracy
b) representative democracy
c) Maximum democracy
d) none of the above
121. Who wrote the work “The Web of Government”?
a) Lasswell
b) Laski
c) Weber
d) Catlin
122. One of the following is an advocate of historical approach
a) Coleman
b) Lipset
c) Henry Maine
d) Robert Dahl
123. Who among the following was an advocate of behaviouralism and post behaviouralism?
a) Leo Strauss
b) David Easton
c) George Catlin
d) Charles Merriam
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124. Who used to say “I am the state”?
a) Louis XIV
b) Machiavelli
c) John Austin
d) MacIver
125. Which view is observed ‘the state is a necessary evil’?
a) Idealistic view
b) Individualistic view
c) Fascist view
d) Pluralistic view
126. Who observed ‘the state is the march of God on Earth’?
a) Plato
b) Aristotle
c) Hegel
d) Louis XIV
127. Who wrote the work “The Prince”?
a) MacIver
b) Locke
c) Austin
d) Machiavelli
128. Theorists who believe that “state is an association of associations” are best described as
a) Pluralists
b) Federalists
c) Socialists
d) Anarchists
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129. Who contributed “Leviathan”?
a) Plato
b) Hobbes
c) Locke
d) Rawls
130. Who said ‘power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely’?
a) Almond
b) Aristotle
c) Acton
d) Apter
131. Which among the following is not a feature of sovereignty?
a) Absoluteness
b) Indivisibility
c) Delegation
d) Permanence
132. Who wrote the work ‘Anarchy, State and Utopia’?
a) Taylor
b) Merriam
c) Robert Nozick
d) Catlin
133. Who among the following is associated with the Rule of law?
a) A.D. Lindsay
b) Harold Laski
c) A.V. Dicey
d) Ivor Jennings
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134. Constitutional government implies
a) Limited government
b) Representative government
c) Government according to the constitution
d) Government by the consent of the people
135. An essential pre-requisite for constitutionalism?
a) A written constitution
b) Parliamentary democracy
c) Guarantee of fundamental rights
d) Limited government
136. The theory of separation of powers was initiated by
a) Montesquieu
b) Locke
c) Madison
d) Dicey
137. The first systematic classification of government was given by
a) Plato
b) Aristotle
c) Socrates
d) Montesquieu
138. According to Aristotle, the best of government was
a) Democracy
b) Monarchy
c) Aristocracy
d) Polity
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139. Who is called the keystone of the cabinet arch in a parliamentary system?
a) Chief Justice
b) President
c) Prime Minister
d) Speaker of the lower house
140. All the ministers swim and sink together. This is true of the following form of government
a) Unitary
b) Presidential
c) Federal
d) Parliamentary
141. The principle of one for all and all for one implies
a) Individual responsibility
b) Checks and balance
c) Collective responsibility
d) Political homogeneity
142. Who among the advocate of negative theory of liberty?
a) Kant
b) Marx
c) Sedgwick
d) Isaiah Berlin
143. Which of the following is a central attribute of Plato’s notion of justice?
a) Harmony
b) Equality
c) Fraternity
d) Liberty
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144. The term ‘sovereignty’ is derived from the word ‘superanus’ of which language
a) French
b) Latin
c) Greek
d)English
145. Fascist movement first developed in
a)USA
b) Germany
c) Japan
d) Italy
146. Fascist ideology wish to establish the government of
a)People
b) Aristocrats
c)One leader
d)Oligarchic
147. Whosaid ‘My Programme is action and not talk'
a) Stalin
b) Hitler
c) Mussolini
d) Lenin
148. According to Fascist state is an:
a) Collection of individual
b) One of the association
c) Organic entity
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d) association of associations
149. Which of the following is not an element of fascism?
a) It is a negation of liberty
b) It is a negation of liberty
c) It believes in totalitarianism
d) It is against imperialism
150. Fascism resembles Communism (Marxism) in so far it stands for
a)Class war
b) Private property
c) Internationalism
d) totalitarian state
151. The idea that the sovereign nation state should be the main object of the political loyalty of
individual is
a) Patriotism
b) nationalism
c) popular sovereignty
d)Fascism
152. In view of classical thinker nationalism lead to
a)Equality, democracy and distrust of empire
b) Economic prosperity
c) Imperialism
d) Authoritarians
153. Modern liberal are
a) Opposed to nationalization of industries
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b) In favour of nationalization of large scale industries only
c) In favour of nationalization of all industries
d) in favour of promoting small scale and cottage industries
154. Modern liberals were differ from classical because
a) It does not support individual liberty
b) It is against democratic institutions
c) It pleads for free enterprise
d) It stands for a world free from all forms of tyranny and exploitation
155. The principle of 'greatest good of the greatest number' was advocated by
a) Idealists
b) Individualists
c) Utilitarianism
d) Marxists
156. Positivist Liberals are in favour of:
a) Pushing the state out of economic field
b) Doing away the state's interference in the economic sphere
c) State regulation of the economic conditions in the interests of workers
d) State regulation to protect the interests of the capitalists
157, Who among the following is not associated with liberalism
a) J S Mill
b) Karl Marx
c) Bentham
d) Sartori
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158. Which one of the following is not true about liberalism?
a) It stands for individual liberty
b) It has no faith in human reasoning
c) It supports human freedom
d) It stands for constitutional government
159. A democratic government is better than a non-democratic government because
a) It may or may not be accountable
b) It always responds to the needs of the people
c) It may be a constitutional government
d) None of the above
160. Who among the following is not support the limiting the function of the state
a) Herbert Spencer
b) AdamSmith
c) Karl Marx
d) Bentham
161. According to John Dewey contemporary liberalism is
a) Attitude towards certain things
b) solid programme of action
c) both a programme and action
d) Partly an attitude and partly a programme
162. Who of the following is regarded as the father of Scientific socialism?
a) Karl Marx
b) Lenin
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c) Robert Owen
d) Stalin
163. Liberalism stands for
a) Social liberty
b) Political liberty
c) Economic liberty
d) All the above.
164. Which of the following ideas was borrowed by Marx from Hegel?
a) Class struggle
b) Surplus value theory
c) Dialectical materialism
d) None of the above.
165.Who said, “Capitalism carried within itself the seeds of its own decay”?
a) Angels
b) Karl Marx
c) Lenin
d) Stalin
166.The term ‘Politics’ was first employed by
a)Socrates
b) Plato
c) Aristotle
d) Karl Marx
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167.The statement that “A man without society is either a beast or a God” is attributed to
a) Hegel
b) Hobbes
c) Aristotle
d) Plato
168.Political parties have been described as ‘power behind the throne’ by
a) Herman Finer
b) Mac Iver
c) Burke
d) Sabine
169.Who was the author of the book ‘On Liberty’?
a) Laski
b) T. H Green
c) Bentham
d) J. S Mill
170.Parliamentary government is accountable to the
a) President
b) Legislature
c) Prime Minister
d) Council of ministers
171.The head of the state under presidential system enjoys
a) No power
b) Dictatorial powers
c) Real powers
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d) Nominal powers
172.In a Federal Government, the powers are divided between the Centre and the States by
a) The Central government
b) Majority decision
c) The Constitution
d) The Parliament.
173.A Unitary government has
a) No right of citizenship
b) Division of powers
c) An independent judiciary
d) A single citizenship
174.Rule of Law is one of the Fundamental principles of the
a) German constitution
b) British Constitution
c) French Constitution
d) Russian Constitution
175.Most favoured technique of pressure groups, in the USA is
a) Boycott and picketing
b) Lobbying
c) total strike
d) Peaceful agitations
176.Who said “History without Political Science has no fruit; Political Science without history
has noroot”?
a) Prof. Seeley
b) Lord Action
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c) David Easton
d) Laski
177.Psephology deals with
a) Political parties
b) Voting behavior and election studies
c) Human Rights
d) Pressure groups
178.The argument that the study of Political Science focused on State and government belongs to
a) Traditional Approach
b) Behavioural Approach
c) Post Behavioural approach
d) Marxian Approach
179. The Classic work on “Public opinion” was authored by
a) Robert A. Dahl
b) Walter Lippmann
c) Rajni Kothari
d) Karl Deutsch
180. The theory of ideal state is associated with
a) Plato
b) Rousseau
c) Aristotle
d) Hobbes
181. Panchayati Raj system was introduced first in the state of
a) Karnataka
b) Punjab
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c) Rajasthan
d) Andhra Pradesh
182.Political homogeneity is a feature of
a) Presidential system
b) Collegial Executive
c) Parliamentary system
d) Aristocracy
183.‘Filibustering’ is associated with
a) Law making
b) Training
c) Civil service
d) Election
184.Stasiology is the scientific study of
a) Interest groups
b) Voting
c) Public opinion
d) Party system
185. “The Functions of the Executive” was written by
a) Urwick
b) Chester Bernard
c) Robert Dahl
d) Herbert Simon
186. ‘ The Philosophy of History’ is the work of
a) Karl Marx
b) G W F Hegel
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c) Bentham
d) James Mill
187.The concept of labour theory of value is propounded by
a) Karl Marx
b) Herbert Spencer
c) David Ricardo
d) Karl Popper
188.Which one of the following is not a concept of Gandhiji
a) Ramaraj
b) Gramswaraj
c) classeless democracy
d) cottage industries
189.Which one of the following is not a technique of Satyagraha
a) Sarvodaya
b) strike
c) Hijrat
d) Non cooperation
190.Who started Sarvodaya as a social movement
a) Gandhiji
b) Jayaprakash Narayan
c) Vinobha Bhave
d) Nehru
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191.In a Parliamentary system the council of ministers are responsible to
a) Prime Minister
b) Judiciary
c) Parliament
d) President
192.The meeting of the cabinet is presided over by
a) President
b) Speaker
c) Prime Minister
d) None of the above
193.A representative democracy is the most suitable form of government for enactment of laws
that are consistent with
a) Public opinion
b) Principle of liberty
c) Regional aspiration
d) Market forces
194. West Minister model stands for particular form of
a) Constitution
b) State
c) Government
d) Administration
195. Rule of law prevails in -
a) Dictatorship
b) Aristocracy
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c) Democracy
d) Oligarchy
196. According to Marx the state came into being to
a) Make life better
b) Protect life and liberty
c) End exploitation of the poor
d) Legalise exploitation of the poor by the state
197. Which institution in a federal system is called 'Balancing Wheel of theConstitution'?
a) Legislature
b) Executive
c) Judiciary
d) Press
198. Who gave the view that ‘ A constitutional state 'is one in which the powers of government,
the rights of the governed and the relations between the two are adjusted'?
a) K. C. Wheare
b) C. F. Strong
c) Carl J. Friedrich
d) James Bryce
199. ‘Those who says that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion
means’ who said this ?
a) Gandhi
b) Karl Marx
c) Hobbes
d) Locke
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200. In which theory of origin of the state, political conscience is an important factor
a) Force theory
b) Matriarchic theory
c) Social contract theory
d) Evolutionary theory
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ANSWER KEY
1.d) All of the above
2. d) Dissolution of lower house.
3. c) Democracy
4. a) The rights are created by the state
5. a) The State
6. d) Seeley
7. (b) Aristotle
8. a) The People
9. c) Switzerland
10. d) Laski
11. b) France
12. d) Laski
13. b) Rule of Law
14. b) 6months
15. d) Mac Iver
16. a) Right to hold public office
17. a) Freedom should be unlimited
18. b) Statutory law
19. a) Social Contract
20. b) December 10
21. a) Austin
22. b. There should be independence of judiciary
23. c) Power of the people
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24. c) Robert.A. Dahl
25. a) Ancient Greek city-states
26. a) Cantons of Switzerland
27. d) Refer to the people
28. a) Plebiscitum
29. a) People’s opinion
30. d) U.S.A
31. c) France
32.a) Athens
33. a) Paul Janet
34. a) Easton
35. d) Behavioural Approach
36. b) Lasswell
37. b) Easton
38. b) Post-Behaviouralist Approach
39.a) Lasswell
40. b) Marxian Approach
41. a) Latin
42. a) Bluntschli
43. a) Laski
44. b) Engels
45. a) Morgan
46. b) Jean Bodin
47. c) Associations
48. d) Austin
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49. c) MacIver
50. d) Laski
51. a) Karl Marx
52. d) Justice.
53. a) Political Domain
54. c) Establish the principles of justice for the basic structure of society
55. c) John Rawls
56. c) The Spirit of Laws
57.a) UK
58. c) Extensive public debate before taking decisions
59. c) Jefferson
60. c) Introduction to the Study of Law of the Constitution
61. a) Arthur Bentley
62. b) Wallas
63. c) Merriam
64. d) Easton
65. a) Post-behaviouralism
66. a) John Locke
67. b) Laski
68. b) respect for individual rights
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69. b) The United Kingdom
70. c) Britain with certain modifications
71. a) Referendum
72. c) Democratic System
73. c) Right to information Act
74. a) A transitional state
75. b) Ludwig Von Bertallanffy
76. d) Freedom of speech
77. b) Developing countries
78. a) Almond and Powell
79. d) J.S. Mill
80. b) Philosophical anarchist
81. c) A perverted form of government
82. a) something which lies fixed
83. c) Produce intended effects
84. a) Dahl
85. d) Freedom
86. b) An economic system for communism
87. a) Lasswell
88. a) Andrew Haywood
89. d) Who should get what in society?
90. b) everybody finishes the same start in life
91. d) De Tocqueville
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92. c) Absence of interference
93.b) Jayprakash Narayan
94. (d) complete independence
95. a) C.B. Macpherson
96. c) Invasion by foreign countries
97. b) greater and active engagement of citizens in government
98. d) popular participation
99. c) German
100. a) B R Ambedkar
101. d) allocate authoritatively values for a whole society
102. a) Greek
103. c) David Easton
104. a) Aristotle
105. a) 4th century B.C
106. a) A normative concern and deductive method explanation
107. a) Charles Merriam
108. b)Robert A Dahl
109. c) Intellectual foundations
110. d) Isaiah Berlin
111.a) David Easton
112. b) Relevance and action
113. c) Marxism
114. b) John Austin
115. c) J.S. Mill
116. c) Historiography
117. d) George Sabine
118. b) Polis
119 a) Provisions given in the Constitution
120. (b) representative democracy
121. d) Catlin
122. c) Henry Maine
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123. b) David Easton
124. a) Louis XIV
125. b) Individualistic view
126. c) Hegel
127. d) Machiavelli
128. a) Pluralists
129. b) Hobbes
130. c) Acton
131. c) Delegation
132. c) Robert Nozick
133. c) A.V. Dicey
134. a) Limited government
135. d) Limited government
136. a) Montesquieu
137. b) Aristotle
138. d) Polity
139. c) Prime Minister
140. d) Parliamentary
141. c) Collective responsibility
142. d) Isaih Berlin
143. a) Harmony
144. b) Latin
145. d) Italy
146. c) One leader
147. c) Mussolini
148. c) Organic entity
149. d) It is against imperialism
150. d) totalitarian state
151. b) nationalism
152. a) equality, democracy and distrust of empire
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153. b) In favour of nationalization of large scale industries only
154. d) It stands for a world free from all forms of tyranny and exploitation
155. c) Utilitarianism
156. c) State regulation of the economic conditions in the interests of workers
157. b) Karl Marx
158. b) It has no faith in human reasoning
159.(b) It always responds to the needs of the people
160. c) Karl Marx
161. c) both a programme and action
162. a) Karl Marx
163. d) All the above
164. c) Dialectical materialism
165. b) Karl Marx
166. c) Aristotle
167.c) Aristotle
168.a) Herman Finer
169.d) J. S Mill
170.b) Legislature
171. c) Real powers
172.c) The Constitution
173.d) A single Citizenship
174.b) British Constitution
175.b) Lobbying
176. a) Prof. Seeley
177.b) Voting behavior and election
178.a) Traditional Approach
179.b) Walter Lippmann
180.a) Plato
181.c) Rajasthan
182.c) Parliamentary system
183.a) Law making
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184.d) Party system
185. b) Chester Bernard
186. b) G W F Hegel
187.c) David Ricardo
188.c) Classless democracy
189.a) Sarvodaya
190. c) Vinobha Bhave
191.c) Parliament
192.c) Prime Minister
193. a) Public opinion
194. c) Government
195. c) Democracy
196. d) Legalise exploitation of the poor by the state
197.c) Judiciary
198 b) C F Strong
199. a) Gandhi
200. d) Evolutionary theory
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