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CIP Ranchi PG Entrance (Group A - M.A) (Political Science) Exam - English
Duration: 60 · Questions: 100 · Max Marks: 100 · Language: 3
Political Science
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Who among the following defines political science as " the study of the act of human and social control" or the "study of control relationship of wills"?
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Is the parent science of all the social sciences.
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Which of the following deals with morality and formulates rules which should influence the behaviour of man while living in society?
4
Ethics is concerned with man as a man and as such, it is prior to:
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Who among the following prominent writers has given psychological explanations of almost all the political problems?
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Political scientists have borrowed such, ideas as 'cultural relativism', 'social evolution', 'cultural diffusion' from:
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Who among the following said that politics has its roots, psychologically, in the study of mental habits and vocational activities of mankind?
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Ivor Brown points out that economics deals mainly with and politics is concerned with
9
Which of the following theories of the origin of the state was accepted by liberalism?
10
Which of the following views believes that the state originated with class division and class struggle in society?
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"It is not the consciousness of man which determines the material conditions of life but it is material conditions of life which determine their consciousness" - this statement is given by
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"Politics is that part of social science which treats of the foundations of state and the principles of government". Who made this statement?
13
Guild and Palmer strongly pleaded that the subject of politics should be:
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The Father of modern sociology, A. Comte, portrayed society as a potentially harmonious and ordered structure in which all social classes.
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Socialist states are based on marxian ideology and are known as the:
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Which one of the following pairs is mismatched?
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Who has used the concept of "hegemony"?
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"Politics is struggle for power" was said by
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Kautilya wrote his Arthasastra on the subject of:
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Lord James Bryce is considered to be the best advocate of the
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The English word 'politics' originates from three Greek words like:
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Buckle said that "in the present state of knowledge, politics, far from being a science, is the
most .....of all arts".
most .....of all arts".
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Leacock says that without at least an unconscious political science, will lose its main significance.
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Robert Michels showed how 'democratic parties are really
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Who among the following is one of the advocates of the power theory in politics?
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Who founded the structural-functional school in political science?
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Political Socialisation is the process of induction into the political culture and the psychological dimension of the
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Who defines the political system the institutions, processes and interactions through which values are authoritatively allocate in a society"?
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The liberal view of politics is based on the assumption that human beings are basically:
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The liberal view of politics is quite compatible with:
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Bernard Crick thinks that non-political conservatives, apolitical libera's and anti-political socialists do not know how to practise the art of:
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Marx approaches the question of politics from the point of view of
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In Marxist view of politics, conflict is inherent in the objective situation of the:
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In the last decades of which Century, politics was established as a separate and distinct subject?
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Greek philosophers never made a distinction between the
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Who said that the State is a Union of Families and Villages having for its end Perfect and Self- sufficient life?
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Who among the following opined that life is a "perpetual and restless desire for power after
power which ceases only in death"?
power which ceases only in death"?
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Who was the first great political thinker who recognized the distinctive quality of politics as one
of the basic human activities?
of the basic human activities?
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Which notion characterizes the core of Marxist 2 view of politics?
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Who wrote the book In Defence of Politics'?
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Who founded the historical school of jurisprudence?
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Which of the following systems of political analysis puts emphasis on legal and historical analysis, descriptive and comparative methods and interest group theory?
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Who was the founder of the philosophical approach to politics ?
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Which view of politics suggests that political institutions realize philosophical ideals in 3 governmental practices?
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The functionalist view of politics is professed by:
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Who propounded the elitist theory?
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Liberalism coincides with the tradition of thought beginning with:
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The liberal view of politics upholds the pluralistic view of:
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According to the Marxist point of view are the motive force behind all politics.
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"What our great industries lack more is markets, because both Germany and the US have become protectionist to the extreme degree" - who made this statement in 1885?
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Who said that imperialism is a chief distortion of nationalism?
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The concept of citizenship involves the concept of:
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Who said that 'citizenship is man's basic right for it is nothing less than the right to have right?
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The modern idea of citizenship includes not only civil and political dimensions but also a:
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Who among the following advocates the group theory?
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Politics is a study of the interaction of the economic, political and ideological dimensions of:
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is the source of the economic dimension of power
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The ideological dimension of power emanates from the power exerted by:
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Who said that politics is concerned among other things with conflicts over the proper use of force, power, authority?
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Who asserts that fundamental conception in social sciences is power in the same sense that energy is fundamental concept in physics?
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The power theory' finds its brilliant manifestation in the political philosophy of
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Advancements in science and technology as also the socio-economic processes, have made more complex
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Which of the following is not a form of closed door policy?
64
What is the term used to explain control by two or
more powers over a disputed territory in order to prevent colonial rivalry?
more powers over a disputed territory in order to prevent colonial rivalry?
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The right of extra-territoriality was claimed and established in almost all... countries which give few rights to Christians.
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Modern imperialism places more reliance on
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Which of the following may be defined as "the complex of organised associations and institutions within a community"?
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Who said that the global economy must be viewed a collection of heterogeneous units with different agendas interacting with one another in a variety of ways and thus changing its character
over time?
over time?
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Which of the following is defined as the value which labour produces beyond that which is socially necessary to sustain itself?
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Which one of the following thinkers proposed the criterion of falsifiability as the measure of scientific truth?
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What does TRIP.s stand for?
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Linder ..................patents shall be available for any invention whether product or process in all fields of industrial technologies.
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Who said that "state is particular portion of mankind viewed as an organised"?
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Who made no distinction between State and Society?
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Which of the following is the distinguishing characteristic of state, as compared with other associations?
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Which of the following are the four characterics of state?
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The term state has often been confused with:
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Which of the following is not true about difference between the State and the Government?
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According to Plato, the population of the State should be about:
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Which of the following is true about difference between the State and Government?
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Who said that 'state is a community permanently established for a political end?
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Who said that State is a terri urial society divided into government and the subjects?
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Who said that the state is a people organised for
law within a definite territory?
law within a definite territory?
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State has been defined as "human society with political differentiations existing in it between the governed and the governors' by?
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The most acceptable definition of state that it has four essential ingredients was given by?
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These days recognition to the new born state is
given by a state when:
given by a state when:
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These days for studying problems of state the approach followed is:
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Main difference between the state and association is that?
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Main difference between the state and the Government is that
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Compared with society, scope of state activity is?
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Who said that a nation is a body of men whom cherish a common will and tend to have a separate state?
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Who said that 'nation is a nationality which has organised itself into a political body desiring to be independent?
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Technically speaking which one of the following
cannot be termed as state?
cannot be termed as state?
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A state becomes an internationally recognised state only when:
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Which of the following is not true about the state and society?
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Which of the following is not true about the state and Government?
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Which one of the following methods for the study
of problems of State of his times was used by
Aristotle?
of problems of State of his times was used by
Aristotle?
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Which one of the following is a state?
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The four essential elements of the state are:
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The territory of a state consists of: