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1.

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» E.
2.

Syndicalism was popular in

A. Russia
B. France
C. USA
D. Britain
Answer» C. USA
3.

Who observed ‘the state is the march of God on Earth’

A. Plato
B. Aristotle
C. Hegel
D. Louis XIV
Answer» D. Louis XIV
4.

Who said the state is the politically organised people of a definite territory?

A. J.K. Bluntschli
B. C Wright Mills
C. Robert Dahl
D. Ralph Miliband
Answer» B. C Wright Mills
5.

In the Marxian ideology, the use of violence in revolution is

A. accidental
B. Abruptive
C. imperative
D. essential
Answer» B. Abruptive
6.

Who theorized civil society as an ideological domain?

A. Gramsci
B. Marx
C. Noam Chomsky
D. Hegel
Answer» B. Marx
7.

Hypotheses of a Research is

A. Objective in nature
B. Permanent in nature
C. Tentative in nature
D. Final result of a research
Answer» D. Final result of a research
8.

Who defines sovereignty it as ‘the sum total of the influences in a state which lie behind thelaw”

A. Gilchrist
B. A.V. Dicey
C. John Austin
D. Michel Waltzer
Answer» B. A.V. Dicey
9.

Gandhi was basically

A. a religious man
B. a political theorist
C. a politician in the guise of religion
D. a saint without political leanings
Answer» B. a political theorist
10.

According to Antonio Gramsci, civil society is primarily geared to the generation of

A. exploitation
B. coercion
C. consent
D. dissent
Answer» D. dissent
11.

Robert Nozik is

A. a neo-liberal
B. a communitarian liberal
C. a classical liberal
D. a pluralist liberal
Answer» B. a communitarian liberal
12.

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» B. An ideal state
13.

One of the following is not the feature of sovereignty

A. Originality
B. All-comprehensiveness
C. Divisibility
D. Inalienability
Answer» D. Inalienability
14.

Who among the following theorized imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism

A. Gramsci
B. Lenin
C. Marx
D. Mao
Answer» C. Marx
15.

Which view is observed ‘the state is a necessary evil

A. Idealistic view
B. Individualistic view
C. Fascist view
D. Pluralistic view
Answer» C. Fascist view
16.

The cabinet is the hyphen that joins the buckle that fastens the executive to thelegislature, who observed this?

A. Walter Bagehot
B. Charles Merriam
C. Joseph Schumpeter
D. Montesquieu
Answer» B. Charles Merriam
17.

India has been described as

A. Union of States
B. Federation of States
C. Confederation of States
D. centralization of states
Answer» B. Federation of States
18.

Who describes parties as “brokers of ideas”?

A. MacIver
B. Gettel
C. Lowell
D. Gilchrist
Answer» D. Gilchrist
19.

Who among the first enunciate the concept ‘forced freedom’

A. Rousseau
B. Green
C. Locke
D. Hobbes
Answer» B. Green
20.

Who among following is associated with the Rule of Law?

A. A.D. Lindsay
B. Harold Laski
C. A.V. Dicey
D. Ivor Jennings
Answer» D. Ivor Jennings
21.

Who described politics as “acting in concert”?

A. Aristotle
B. Plato
C. Marx
D. Hannah Arendt
Answer» E.
22.

Hegel saw civil society as a domain of

A. Harmony
B. Universality
C. Particularity
D. Freedom
Answer» C. Particularity
23.

neo-liberalism is

A. revival of political liberalism
B. revival of economic
C. revival of cultural liberalism
D. revival of social liberalism
Answer» C. revival of cultural liberalism
24.

Civil society was constituted with the consent of the people for the purpose ofprotecting and safeguarding private property. Who said?

A. Adam Smith
B. Adam Ferguson
C. John Locke
D. None of these
Answer» C. John Locke
25.

Who described elections as the heart of democracy?

A. Lincoln
B. Woodrow Wilson
C. James Bryce
D. Joseph Schumpter
Answer» E.
26.

A systematically way to solve the research problem is

A. Scientific
B. observational
C. research methodology
D. fact basis
Answer» D. fact basis
27.

Who said, the State is the politically organized people of a definite territory”?

A. J.K. Bluntschli
B. Wright Mills; c. Robert A. Dahl
C. Ralph Miliband
Answer» B. Wright Mills; c. Robert A. Dahl
28.

Who defined sovereignty as the ‘absolute and perpetual power of commanding in a state’?

A. Garner
B. Jean Bodin
C. Green
D. Hobbes
Answer» C. Green
29.

“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» C. Carl J. Friedrich
30.

Zero hour begins

A. At mid day
B. At the end of the day
C. At the time when the prime minister suggests
D. At the beginning of the day
Answer» B. At the end of the day
31.

What is the most fundamental notion underlying the Marxist vision of justice?

A. Class
B. Exploitation
C. Need
D. Desert
Answer» D. Desert
32.

“The personal is political”, is a central slogan of the

A. feminism
B. neoliberals
C. fascists
D. socialists
Answer» B. neoliberals
33.

Who said, an association as “a group organised for the pursuit of an interest or a group ofinterests in common”?

A. Harold J Laski
B. MacIver
C. Woodrow Wilson
D. Willoughby
Answer» C. Woodrow Wilson
34.

Who introduced ‘Historicism’?

A. Karl Popper
B. Compte
C. Hegel
D. Sabine
Answer» B. Compte
35.

Who believed that irrespective of the forms of government, authority tends to be oligarchic ?

A. Laski
B. Weber
C. Robert Michaels
D. Aristotle
Answer» D. Aristotle
36.

Who said, state is a “territorial society divided into government and subjects whoserelationships are determined by the exercise of this supreme coercive power” ?

A. Laski
B. Mao
C. Wilson
D. Marx
Answer» B. Mao
37.

According to Aristotle, the perverted form of government with regard to polity was

A. Oligarchy
B. Aristocracy
C. Democracy
D. Monarchy
Answer» D. Monarchy
38.

Who defined sovereignty as the ‘absolute and perpetual power of commanding in a state?

A. Garner
B. Jean Bodin
C. Green
D. Hobbes
Answer» C. Green
39.

Who was the most ardent advocate of Post-Behaviouralism?

A. David Easton
B. Wright Mills; c. Robert A. Dahl
C. Harold D. Lasswell
Answer» B. Wright Mills; c. Robert A. Dahl
40.

The idea of sovereignty owes its existence to

A. Bodin
B. Austin
C. Hobbes
D. Bentham
Answer» B. Austin
41.

Sovereignty refers to

A. Ruling monarchs
B. Ceremonial leaders
C. Supreme courts
D. The ultimate source of authority in society
Answer» B. Ceremonial leaders
42.

Who points , because society is federal, authority must also be federal?

A. Maine
B. MacIver
C. Bentham
D. Laski
Answer» E.
43.

Who propounded the Functional Theory of Rights?

A. Mill
B. Green
C. Laski
D. Locke
Answer» B. Green
44.

ho introduced the “subjective desire of the people”?

A. Willoughby
B. Hobbes
C. Iver
D. Laski
Answer» B. Hobbes
45.

Who defined politics as “the authoritative allocation of values that are binding on the society”

A. John Lock
B. B. J.S. Mill
C. David Easton
D. Almond
Answer» D. Almond
46.

Who said , there is no better test of the excellence of a government, than the efficiency of thejudicial system’ ?

A. James Bryce
B. Laski
C. MacIver
D. Bentham
Answer» B. Laski
47.

Who among the following proposed the suggestion for a constituent assembly firstof all?

A. Nehru
B. Roy
C. J.P. Narayan
D. Gandhi
Answer» C. J.P. Narayan
48.

Civil society is a protective buffer for the state and economy. Who said?

A. Gramsci
B. Anthony Giddens
C. Adam Smith
D. Michel Waltzer
Answer» B. Anthony Giddens
49.

Who defined sovereignty is “the sum total of the influences in a state which lie behind thelaw” ?

A. Austin
B. Dicey
C. Gilchrist
D. Garner
Answer» D. Garner
50.

Behavioural approach in Politics Science is an attempt to make the empirical content ofPolitical Science more scientific who said this?

A. Charles Merriam
B. Robert A Dahl
C. George Catlin
D. Arthur Bentley
Answer» B. Robert A Dahl