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This section includes 2265 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Current Affairs knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1851. |
The thinker who based politics on philosophy was |
| A. | Plato |
| B. | Aristotle |
| C. | Bentham |
| D. | Marx |
| Answer» B. Aristotle | |
| 1852. |
Who is the main proponent of the pluralist concept of ‘sovereignty’? |
| A. | Hugo Grotius |
| B. | John Austin |
| C. | Henry Maine |
| D. | Jean Bodin |
| Answer» D. Jean Bodin | |
| 1853. |
Who described the Indian constitution as a unitary state with subsidiary federalfeatures? |
| A. | Austin |
| B. | Ivor Jennings |
| C. | Ambedkar |
| D. | K.C. Wheare |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1854. |
All the ministers sail and sink together. This is true of the following form ofgovernment |
| A. | Unitary |
| B. | Presidential |
| C. | Federal |
| D. | Parliamentary |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1855. |
Which of the following is the basis of Marxism? |
| A. | Materialism |
| B. | Nationalism |
| C. | Spiritualism |
| D. | Historicism |
| Answer» B. Nationalism | |
| 1856. |
Who is guild socialist? |
| A. | Green |
| B. | Mill |
| C. | Cole |
| D. | Dicey |
| Answer» D. Dicey | |
| 1857. |
The modern idea that made democracy feasible for large and complex societies is |
| A. | decentralization |
| B. | representation |
| C. | federalism |
| D. | rights |
| Answer» C. federalism | |
| 1858. |
Who defines sovereignty it as “the sum total of the influences in a state which liebehind the law” |
| A. | Gilchrist |
| B. | A.V. Dicey |
| C. | John Austin |
| D. | Michel Waltzer |
| Answer» B. A.V. Dicey | |
| 1859. |
Cultural liberalism is based on |
| A. | non-interference in the private life of the individual |
| B. | enfranchisement of all |
| C. | freedom of contract |
| D. | discrimination free society |
| Answer» B. enfranchisement of all | |
| 1860. |
Political science is the scientific designation of the subject of study was accepted in whichyear |
| A. | 1948 |
| B. | 1950 |
| C. | 1945 |
| D. | 1970 |
| Answer» B. 1950 | |
| 1861. |
The scope of Political Science is determined by the enquiries that arise in connectionwith the state. Who said so? |
| A. | Gilchrist |
| B. | Almond |
| C. | T.H. Green |
| D. | August Compte |
| Answer» B. Almond | |
| 1862. |
Fabian economic theory is based on |
| A. | Theory of mixed economy |
| B. | Labour theory of value |
| C. | Ricardian theory of rent |
| D. | Laissez faire theory |
| Answer» B. Labour theory of value | |
| 1863. |
Who among the following was the chief exponent of the legal theory ofsovereignty? |
| A. | Rousseau |
| B. | Locke |
| C. | Austin |
| D. | Bodin |
| Answer» D. Bodin | |
| 1864. |
Whose work is ‘The poverty of Philosophy’? |
| A. | Gramsci |
| B. | Marx |
| C. | Engels |
| D. | Michel Waltzer |
| Answer» C. Engels | |
| 1865. |
Whose work is “The Spirit of Laws”? |
| A. | Jean Bodin |
| B. | Henry Maine |
| C. | Laski |
| D. | Montesquieu |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1866. |
Who said “State is an association which acting through law as promulgated by a governmentendowed to this end with coercive power,..condition of social order”? |
| A. | Laski |
| B. | Willoughby |
| C. | Lenin |
| D. | Mac Iver |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1867. |
Whose contribution is “The Spirit of Laws”? |
| A. | Laski |
| B. | John Austin |
| C. | Niccolo Machiavelli |
| D. | Montesquieu |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1868. |
Who was the most ardent advocate of Post Bahaviouralism? |
| A. | David Easton |
| B. | C Wright Mills |
| C. | Robert Dahl |
| D. | Harold D Lasswell |
| Answer» B. C Wright Mills | |
| 1869. |
Whose definition encompasses the ‘politics of consent’ as well as the ‘politics of struggle’? |
| A. | Easton |
| B. | Merriam |
| C. | Lasswell |
| D. | Kaplan |
| Answer» B. Merriam | |
| 1870. |
Who said, Kinship created a common consciousness, common interest and common purpose? |
| A. | Gramsci |
| B. | Anthony Giddens |
| C. | Adam Smith |
| D. | Henry Maine |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1871. |
Political Science is the scientific designation of the subject of study was accepted in which year |
| A. | 1948 |
| B. | 1950 |
| C. | 1945 |
| D. | 1970 |
| Answer» B. 1950 | |
| 1872. |
Anarchism is |
| A. | socialist aspect of liberalism |
| B. | socialism liberalism combined |
| C. | radical aspect of capitalism |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. socialism liberalism combined | |
| 1873. |
Who said “knowledge is Power” |
| A. | Morgenthau |
| B. | Foucault |
| C. | Lasswell |
| D. | Easton |
| Answer» C. Lasswell | |
| 1874. |
Rousseau is the advocate of |
| A. | Political sovereignty |
| B. | Legal sovereignty |
| C. | Popular sovereignty |
| D. | Personal sovereignty |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1875. |
Who said the preamble is the keynote to the constitution |
| A. | Basu |
| B. | Thakur Dar Bhargava |
| C. | Ernest Barker |
| D. | Munshi |
| Answer» D. Munshi | |
| 1876. |
Rational-legal authority also known as |
| A. | Confederal |
| B. | Universal |
| C. | Democratic |
| D. | Bureaucratic |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1877. |
who observed ‘civil society as a vibrant sphere peopled by all kinds of associations,churches, libraries, literary bodies, public groups, town councils, and other autonomous public organizations’ |
| A. | Michel Waltzer |
| B. | Tocquvellian |
| C. | Cohen |
| D. | Aratto |
| Answer» C. Cohen | |
| 1878. |
Who said “Civilisation is not a burden, but it is an opportunity”? |
| A. | Marx |
| B. | Gandhi |
| C. | Nehru |
| D. | Lenin |
| Answer» C. Nehru | |
| 1879. |
Who described man in the state of nature as a ‘noble savage’ |
| A. | Hobbes |
| B. | Rousseau |
| C. | Locke |
| D. | Laski |
| Answer» C. Locke | |
| 1880. |
“All administration means domination” who said this ? |
| A. | Weber |
| B. | Martin Albrow |
| C. | R. K. Merton |
| D. | Talcot Parsons |
| Answer» B. Martin Albrow | |
| 1881. |
Whose work is “The Web of Government”? |
| A. | Lasswell |
| B. | Laski |
| C. | Lipset |
| D. | MacIver |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1882. |
The term globalization was coined by |
| A. | Kaplan |
| B. | Robertson |
| C. | Burton |
| D. | Spiro |
| Answer» C. Burton | |
| 1883. |
Who defined sovereignty on the basis of the concept of law as “a command given by asuperior to an inferior” |
| A. | Grotius |
| B. | Hobbes |
| C. | Locke |
| D. | Austin |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1884. |
Who developed the concept of law as “a command given by a superior to aninferior”. |
| A. | Jean Bodin |
| B. | John Lock |
| C. | Hugo Grotius |
| D. | John Austin |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1885. |
hose treatise, “the origin of the Family, Private Property and the State”? |
| A. | Marx |
| B. | Engels |
| C. | Lenin |
| D. | Mao |
| Answer» B. Engels | |
| 1886. |
Whose work is “the Nerves of Government” |
| A. | Catlin |
| B. | Duverger |
| C. | Deutsch |
| D. | George Sabine |
| Answer» D. George Sabine | |
| 1887. |
The best form of federalism suited for countries like India is |
| A. | bargaining federalism |
| B. | centralized federalism |
| C. | conflicting federalism |
| D. | cooperative federalism |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1888. |
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» E. | |
| 1889. |
One of the following is a philosopher of the classical political theory |
| A. | Duverger |
| B. | Lasswell |
| C. | Strauss |
| D. | Dahl |
| Answer» D. Dahl | |
| 1890. |
The scope of Political Science is determined by the enquiries that arise in connection with thestate. Who said so? |
| A. | Gilchrist |
| B. | Almond |
| C. | T.H. Green |
| D. | August Compte |
| Answer» B. Almond | |
| 1891. |
Who wrote the work “Psychopathology and Politics”? |
| A. | Laski |
| B. | Lasswell |
| C. | MacIver |
| D. | Charles Marriam |
| Answer» C. MacIver | |
| 1892. |
Politics is “the study of shaping and sharing of power” |
| A. | Charles Merriam |
| B. | Robert A Dahl |
| C. | Harold D Lasswell |
| D. | Arthur Bentley |
| Answer» D. Arthur Bentley | |
| 1893. |
Which one of the following doctrines accords central role to the notion ofcitizenship |
| A. | Theocracy |
| B. | Totalitarianism |
| C. | Fabianism |
| D. | Republicanism |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1894. |
Bureaucracy in the modern state is the form of |
| A. | traditional authority |
| B. | political authority |
| C. | charismatic |
| D. | rational-legal authority |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1895. |
Who said, an association as “a group organized for the pursuit of an interest or agroup of interests in common” |
| A. | Harold J. Laski |
| B. | MacIver |
| C. | Woodrow Wilson |
| D. | Willoughby |
| Answer» C. Woodrow Wilson | |
| 1896. |
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» D. Introduction to Politics | |
| 1897. |
Whose work is ‘The origin of the Family, Private Property and the State’? |
| A. | Gramsci |
| B. | Anthony Giddens |
| C. | Engels |
| D. | Michel Waltzer |
| Answer» D. Michel Waltzer | |
| 1898. |
Which of the country represents bi-party system? |
| A. | France |
| B. | Indian |
| C. | United Kingdom |
| D. | Switzerland |
| Answer» D. Switzerland | |
| 1899. |
Which one of the following countries introduced universal adult franchise is one move? |
| A. | Australia. |
| B. | USA |
| C. | India |
| D. | UK |
| Answer» D. UK | |
| 1900. |
Who observed imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism? |
| A. | Gramsci |
| B. | Locke |
| C. | Marx |
| D. | Lenin |
| Answer» E. | |