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This section includes 657 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Testing Subject knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
Who defined “the state is the politically organised people of a definite territory” ? |
| A. | Bluntschli |
| B. | Wilson |
| C. | Machiavelli |
| D. | Aristotle |
| Answer» B. Wilson | |
| 2. |
Who defined Politics as “the authoritative allocation of values that are binding on thesociety”. |
| A. | John Lock |
| B. | J.S. Mill |
| C. | David Easton |
| D. | Almond |
| Answer» D. Almond | |
| 3. |
Who emphasised the importance of the ‘subjective desire of the people’ for organisation andmaintenance of the stae? |
| A. | Harold J Laski |
| B. | C Wright Mills |
| C. | Woodrow Wilson |
| D. | Willoughby |
| Answer» E. | |
| 4. |
Who among the following was an advocate of behaviouralism and postbehaviouralism |
| A. | Leo Strauss |
| B. | David Easton |
| C. | George Catlin |
| D. | Charles Merriam |
| Answer» C. George Catlin | |
| 5. |
Who said “every state is enormously dependent upon the quality of its public officials”? |
| A. | MacIver |
| B. | Laski |
| C. | Dicey |
| D. | James Bryce |
| Answer» C. Dicey | |
| 6. |
The European Union was established in |
| A. | 1992 |
| B. | 1995 |
| C. | 1993 |
| D. | 1994 |
| Answer» D. 1994 | |
| 7. |
Who defined sovereignty as “the supreme power of the state over citizens andsubjects unrestrained by law”. |
| A. | John Austin |
| B. | Rousseau |
| C. | John Locke |
| D. | Jean Bodin |
| Answer» E. | |
| 8. |
Who was acknowledging politics is a universal activity? |
| A. | MacIver |
| B. | Robert Dahl |
| C. | Hobbes |
| D. | Plato |
| Answer» C. Hobbes | |
| 9. |
Who is a guild socialist? |
| A. | Green |
| B. | Mill |
| C. | Cole |
| D. | Dicey |
| Answer» D. Dicey | |
| 10. |
Who said that liberalism is a habit of mind no less than a political creed ordoctrine? |
| A. | Lindsay |
| B. | Laski |
| C. | Maitland |
| D. | MacIver |
| Answer» C. Maitland | |
| 11. |
Whose work is “Grammar of Politics”? |
| A. | John Austin |
| B. | Jean Bodin |
| C. | Lask |
| D. | Locke |
| Answer» D. Locke | |
| 12. |
Who said ‘Kinship created a common consciousness, common interest and common purpose’? |
| A. | Gettell |
| B. | Maine |
| C. | MacIver |
| D. | Austin |
| Answer» C. MacIver | |
| 13. |
Austin was an English |
| A. | jurist |
| B. | sociologist |
| C. | economist |
| D. | scientist |
| Answer» B. sociologist | |
| 14. |
Politics became “narrow focus, the trivial detail and abstract fact” |
| A. | C Wright Mills |
| B. | Robert A Dahl |
| C. | Harold D Lasswell |
| D. | Arthur Bentley |
| Answer» B. Robert A Dahl | |
| 15. |
A political party is an association of organized people in support of some principle orpolicy which by constitutional means endeavors to make the determinant of government”. Who defined? |
| A. | Gettel |
| B. | Mac Iver |
| C. | A.V. Dicey |
| D. | Henry Maine |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16. |
Who said, “Revolution is a sweeping fundamental change in the predominant myth of a socialorder”? |
| A. | G.S. Peter |
| B. | H Arendt |
| C. | Huntington |
| D. | Neumann |
| Answer» E. | |
| 17. |
Who wrote the work ‘Modern State’? |
| A. | Montesquieu |
| B. | Mac Iver |
| C. | Laski |
| D. | Garner |
| Answer» D. Garner | |
| 18. |
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» D. J. Bentham | |
| 19. |
Behavioural approach in Political Science is “an attempt to make the empiricalcontent of Political Science more scientific” who said this? |
| A. | Charles Merriam |
| B. | Robert A. Dahl |
| C. | George Catlin |
| D. | Arthur Bentley |
| Answer» B. Robert A. Dahl | |
| 20. |
Authority is the right to |
| A. | Invoke tradition |
| B. | Nationhood |
| C. | Rule |
| D. | Delegate |
| Answer» B. Nationhood | |
| 21. |
Who propounded sovereignty in his famous concept of the ‘general will’ |
| A. | Anthony Giddens |
| B. | Rousseau |
| C. | John Locke |
| D. | Hobbes |
| Answer» C. John Locke | |
| 22. |
Which is the work of Montesquieu ? |
| A. | Ant-Duhring |
| B. | State and Revolution |
| C. | The Spirit of Laws |
| D. | The poverty of philosophy |
| Answer» D. The poverty of philosophy | |
| 23. |
The earliest known example of direct democracy was found in |
| A. | Syracuse |
| B. | Sparta |
| C. | Athens |
| D. | Greek |
| Answer» D. Greek | |
| 24. |
The most important feature of liberal democracy is that it |
| A. | regards the vote of all persons as equal |
| B. | emphasizes quantity rather than quality |
| C. | minimize the danger of the people being exploited by a governing aristocracy |
| D. | depends upon the opinion of the majority |
| Answer» B. emphasizes quantity rather than quality | |
| 25. |
Who wrote “Anti-Duhring” |
| A. | Engels |
| B. | Marx |
| C. | Lenin |
| D. | Mao |
| Answer» B. Marx | |
| 26. |
Who among the following is not an exponent of ‘Elitist Theory of Democracy’? |
| A. | Mosca |
| B. | Pareto |
| C. | Michel |
| D. | C Macpherson |
| Answer» E. | |
| 27. |
Who observed “the state should promote greatest good of the greatest number” |
| A. | T.H. Green |
| B. | Jeremy Bentham |
| C. | J. S. Mill |
| D. | Laksi |
| Answer» C. J. S. Mill | |
| 28. |
Who described rights properly are creatures of law? |
| A. | Bentham |
| B. | T.H. Green |
| C. | Kant |
| D. | Hegel |
| Answer» B. T.H. Green | |
| 29. |
One of the following first expressed the principles of liberalism |
| A. | Mill |
| B. | Locke |
| C. | Rousseau |
| D. | Bentham |
| Answer» C. Rousseau | |
| 30. |
Who defined political science is “that part of social science which treats the foundations of thefoundations of the state and principles of government”? |
| A. | Paul Janet |
| B. | Dyke |
| C. | Gettell |
| D. | None of it |
| Answer» B. Dyke | |
| 31. |
The Austian theory attributes to the sovereign |
| A. | political supremacy |
| B. | the power of Political Legitimation |
| C. | moral Omnicompetence |
| D. | Absolute judicial authority |
| Answer» E. | |
| 32. |
Plato is called the father of idealist theory of the state because |
| A. | He postulated a dualism between reality and value |
| B. | He prescribed the ideals of city state |
| C. | His theory was based not on what human nature is but on what it ought to be |
| D. | He based his theory on the idea of the good |
| Answer» D. He based his theory on the idea of the good | |
| 33. |
the concept of ‘circulation of elites’ has been used by |
| A. | Mosca |
| B. | Michels |
| C. | Weber |
| D. | Pareto |
| Answer» B. Michels | |
| 34. |
Gandhi’s ‘swarj’ was to be built |
| A. | from above |
| B. | from below |
| C. | from society |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. from society | |
| 35. |
Who regarded revolution as a means of achieving freedom? |
| A. | Hegel |
| B. | John Milton |
| C. | Kant |
| D. | Lenin |
| Answer» C. Kant | |
| 36. |
Who said “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” ? |
| A. | Lord Acton |
| B. | David Apter |
| C. | A.V. Dicey |
| D. | Montesquieu |
| Answer» B. David Apter | |
| 37. |
The chief advocate of the Patriarchal theory of the Origin of the state is |
| A. | Henry Maine |
| B. | Morgan |
| C. | Locke |
| D. | Green |
| Answer» B. Morgan | |
| 38. |
In India, partyless democracy was first advocated by |
| A. | M. N. Roy |
| B. | Jayaprakash Narayan |
| C. | Viboba Bhave |
| D. | Mahatma Gandhi |
| Answer» B. Jayaprakash Narayan | |
| 39. |
“it is not a matter of ‘problems’ to be ‘solved’ but a state of domination andsubjugation to be ended by a total transformation of the conditions which give rise to it”. Who said this? |
| A. | David Easton |
| B. | Wright Mills; c. Robert A. Dahl |
| C. | Ralph Miliband |
| Answer» E. | |
| 40. |
What is the alternative to Gandhian Socialism |
| A. | Ramrajya |
| B. | Sarvodaya |
| C. | Swadeshi |
| D. | Trusteeship |
| Answer» E. | |
| 41. |
‘It is better to be vague than irrelevant’. This state ment explains the following. |
| A. | Positivism |
| B. | empiricism |
| C. | Behaviouralism |
| D. | Post Behaviouralism |
| Answer» E. | |
| 42. |
The International Criminal Court is located at |
| A. | Washington |
| B. | Hague |
| C. | Geneva |
| D. | London |
| Answer» C. Geneva | |
| 43. |
Which one of the following is a central attribute of Plato’s notion of justice? |
| A. | Harmony |
| B. | Equality |
| C. | Fraternity |
| D. | Liberty |
| Answer» B. Equality | |
| 44. |
“The workers have nothing to sell but their labour power”, This state belongs to |
| A. | Marxism |
| B. | Libertarianism |
| C. | Liberalism |
| D. | Neo-liberalism |
| Answer» D. Neo-liberalism | |
| 45. |
Locke has used the social contract theory to justify |
| A. | Liberal democratic state |
| B. | Supremacy of the judicial organ |
| C. | Political obligation |
| D. | Absolute loyalty of citizens of the state |
| Answer» B. Supremacy of the judicial organ | |
| 46. |
Who among the following is an advocate of the republican notion of liberty? |
| A. | Hegal |
| B. | Machiavelli |
| C. | Green |
| D. | Mill |
| Answer» C. Green | |
| 47. |
Who among the following was the chief exponent of the legal theory of sovereignty? |
| A. | Rousseau |
| B. | Locke |
| C. | Austin |
| D. | Bodin |
| Answer» D. Bodin | |
| 48. |
The theory of sovereignty is historically associated with the rise of |
| A. | Democracy |
| B. | Absolute monarchy |
| C. | Feudalism |
| D. | Decolonization |
| Answer» C. Feudalism | |
| 49. |
Who described historical approach as ‘historicism’? |
| A. | Bentham |
| B. | Hegel |
| C. | Popper |
| D. | Marx |
| Answer» D. Marx | |
| 50. |
Who defines state as “People organized for law within a definite territory”? |
| A. | J.K. Bluntschli |
| B. | Wright Mills; c. Woodrow Wilson |
| C. | Ralph Miliband |
| Answer» D. | |