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Political Science

Question 1Single Answer
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"?
  1. A
    Robson
  2. B
    Pollocks
  3. C
    Maitland
  4. D
    Catlin
Question 2Single Answer
Is the parent science of all the social sciences.
  1. A
    Sociology
  2. B
    History
  3. C
    Philosophy
  4. D
    None of these
Question 3Single Answer
Which of the following deals with morality and formulates rules which should influence the behaviour of man while living in society?
  1. A
    Philosophy
  2. B
    Ethics
  3. C
    Sociology
  4. D
    None of the above
Question 4Single Answer
Ethics is concerned with man as a man and as such, it is prior to:
  1. A
    Society
  2. B
    Science
  3. C
    Political Science
  4. D
    History
Question 5Single Answer
Who among the following prominent writers has given psychological explanations of almost all the political problems? 
  1. A
    Le Bon
  2. B
    Baldwin
  3. C
    Graham Wallas
  4. D
    All of the above
Question 6Single Answer
Political scientists have borrowed such, ideas as 'cultural relativism', 'social evolution', 'cultural diffusion' from:
  1. A
    Anthropology
  2. B
    Sociology
  3. C
    Philosophy
  4. D
    Economics
Question 7Single Answer
Who among the following said that politics has its roots, psychologically, in the study of mental habits and vocational activities of mankind?
  1. A
    Barker
  2. B
    Plato
  3. C
    Bryce
  4. D
    Wallas
Question 8Single Answer
Ivor Brown points out that economics deals mainly with and politics is concerned with
  1. A
    Wealth, government
  2. B
    Business, state
  3. C
    Commodities, human beings
  4. D
    Production, administration
Question 9Single Answer
Which of the following theories of the origin of the state was accepted by liberalism?
  1. A
    Pluralist theory
  2. B
    Marxist theory
  3. C
    Historical theory
  4. D
    Institutional theory
Question 10Single Answer
Which of the following views believes that the state originated with class division and class struggle in society?
  1. A
    Liberal view
  2. B
    Marxist view
  3. C
    Pluralist view
  4. D
    Traditional view
Question 11Single Answer
"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
  1. A
    Gettell
  2. B
    Karl Marx
  3. C
    C. Galbraith
  4. D
    Catlin
Question 12Single Answer
"Politics is that part of social science which treats of the foundations of state and the principles of government". Who made this statement?
  1. A
    Willoughby
  2. B
    Seeley
  3. C
    Paul Janet
  4. D
    S.L. Wasby
Question 13Single Answer
Guild and Palmer strongly pleaded that the subject of politics should be:
  1. A
    The political parties
  2. B
    To secure obedience
  3. C
    Negative
  4. D
    Power instead of the state
Question 14Single Answer
The Father of modern sociology, A. Comte, portrayed society as a potentially harmonious and ordered structure in which all social classes.
  1. A
    worked for social change
  2. B
    worked for the common good
  3. C
    worked for the individual
  4. D
    worked for capitalists
Question 15Single Answer
Socialist states are based on marxian ideology and are known as the:
  1. A
    Blue world
  2. B
    Green world
  3. C
    Red world
  4. D
    Yellow world
Question 16Single Answer
Which one of the following pairs is mismatched?
  1. A
    Fascism - Mussolini
  2. B
    Anarchism - Bakunin
  3. C
    Socialism - Thomas Moore
  4. D
    Pluralism - Kropotkin
Question 17Single Answer
Who has used the concept of "hegemony"?
  1. A
    Laski
  2. B
    Maclver
  3. C
    Gramsci
  4. D
    Marx
Question 18Single Answer
"Politics is struggle for power" was said by
  1. A
    Morgenthau
  2. B
    Quincy Wright
  3. C
    Sprout
  4. D
    Thomson
Question 19Single Answer
Kautilya wrote his Arthasastra on the subject of:
  1. A
    History
  2. B
    Practical politics
  3. C
    Religion
  4. D
    Science
Question 20Single Answer
Lord James Bryce is considered to be the best advocate of the
  1. A
    Experimental method
  2. B
    Historical method
  3. C
    Observational method
  4. D
    Comparative method
Question 21Single Answer
The English word 'politics' originates from three Greek words like:
  1. A
    Polis, Polity, Politico
  2. B
    Polis, Polity, Politeia
  3. C
    Polity, Political, Polis
  4. D
    Politeia, Pol, Polis
Question 22Single Answer
Buckle said that "in the present state of knowledge, politics, far from being a science, is the
most .....of all arts".
  1. A
    Forward
  2. B
    Efficient
  3. C
    Backward
  4. D
    Obedient
Question 23Single Answer
Leacock says that without at least an unconscious political science, will lose its main significance.
  1. A
    Geography
  2. B
    Economics
  3. C
    Sociology
  4. D
    History
Question 24Single Answer
Robert Michels showed how 'democratic parties are really
  1. A
    Absurd Structures
  2. B
    Oligarchical Structures
  3. C
    Economic Structures
  4. D
    Authoritarian Structures
Question 25Single Answer
Who among the following is one of the advocates of the power theory in politics?
  1. A
    Catlin
  2. B
    Kaplan
  3. C
    Lasswell
  4. D
    All of the above
Question 26Single Answer
Who founded the structural-functional school in political science?
  1. A
    Apter
  2. B
    Coleman
  3. C
    Plato
  4. D
    Both (a) and (b)
Question 27Single Answer
Political Socialisation is the process of induction into the political culture and the psychological dimension of the
  1. A
    Socio-economic System
  2. B
    Political System
  3. C
    Economic System
  4. D
    Social System
Question 28Single Answer
Who defines the political system the institutions, processes and interactions through which values are authoritatively allocate in a society"?
  1. A
    Almond
  2. B
    Easton
  3. C
    Apter
  4. D
    Pye
Question 29Single Answer
The liberal view of politics is based on the assumption that human beings are basically:
  1. A
    Independent
  2. B
    Egoistic
  3. C
    Traditional
  4. D
    Modern
Question 30Single Answer
The liberal view of politics is quite compatible with:
  1. A
    Conservatism
  2. B
    Marxism
  3. C
    Fascism
  4. D
    Nazism
Question 31Single Answer
Bernard Crick thinks that non-political conservatives, apolitical libera's and anti-political socialists do not know how to practise the art of:
  1. A
    Democracy
  2. B
    Politics
  3. C
    Government
  4. D
    Sociology
Question 32Single Answer
Marx approaches the question of politics from the point of view of
  1. A
    Political Change
  2. B
    Cultural Change
  3. C
    Social Change
  4. D
    Administrative Change
Question 33Single Answer
In Marxist view of politics, conflict is inherent in the objective situation of the:
  1. A
    Social System
  2. B
    Class System
  3. C
    Political System
  4. D
    Economic System
Question 34Single Answer
In the last decades of which Century, politics was established as a separate and distinct subject?
  1. A
    Twentieth Century
  2. B
    Nineteenth Century
  3. C
    Eighteenth Century
  4. D
    Seventeenth Century
Question 35Single Answer
Greek philosophers never made a distinction between the
  1. A
    Government and State
  2. B
    State and Society
  3. C
    Government and Society
  4. D
    Politics and Government
Question 36Single Answer
Who said that the State is a Union of Families and Villages having for its end Perfect and Self- sufficient life?
  1. A
    Arislotlr
  2. B
    Plato
  3. C
    Pollock
  4. D
    Marx
Question 37Single Answer
Who among the following opined that life is a "perpetual and restless desire for power after
power which ceases only in death"?
  1. A
    Aristotle
  2. B
    Nietzsche
  3. C
    Hobbes
  4. D
    Lasswell
Question 38Single Answer
Who was the first great political thinker who recognized the distinctive quality of politics as one
of the basic human activities?
  1. A
    Plato
  2. B
    Aristotle
  3. C
    Bemard Crick
  4. D
    David E. Apter
Question 39Single Answer
Which notion characterizes the core of Marxist 2 view of politics?
  1. A
    The notion of class consciousness
  2. B
    The notion of class conflict
  3. C
    The notion of class determination
  4. D
    The notion of ruling class
Question 40Single Answer
Who wrote the book In Defence of Politics'?
  1. A
    Stephen Wasby
  2. B
    Pareto
  3. C
    Mosca
  4. D
    Bernard Crick
Question 41Single Answer
Who founded the historical school of jurisprudence?
  1. A
    Eichorn and Savigny
  2. B
    John W. Burgess
  3. C
    Francis Lieber
  4. D
    John Hopkings
Question 42Single Answer
Which of the following systems of political analysis puts emphasis on legal and historical analysis, descriptive and comparative methods and interest group theory?
  1. A
    Political philosophy
  2. B
    Behaviourlism
  3. C
    Pluralism
  4. D
    Institutionalism
Question 43Single Answer
Who was the founder of the philosophical approach to politics ?
  1. A
    Plato
  2. B
    Aristotle
  3. C
    Hobbes
  4. D
    Both (a) and (b)
Question 44Single Answer
Which view of politics suggests that political institutions realize philosophical ideals in 3 governmental practices?
  1. A
    Institutionalistic
  2. B
    Pluralistic
  3. C
    Marxist
  4. D
    Behaviouralistic
Question 45Single Answer
The functionalist view of politics is professed by:
  1. A
    David Easton
  2. B
    Almond 
  3. C
    Talcott Parsons
  4. D
    All of the above
Question 46Single Answer
Who propounded the elitist theory?
  1. A
    Mosca
  2. B
    Robert Dahl
  3. C
    Lasswell
  4. D
    Catlin
Question 47Single Answer
 Liberalism coincides with the tradition of thought beginning with:
  1. A
    John Locke
  2. B
    Rousseau
  3. C
    Hobbes
  4. D
    Marx
Question 48Single Answer
The liberal view of politics upholds the pluralistic view of:
  1. A
    Economy
  2. B
    Polity
  3. C
    State
  4. D
    Society
Question 49Single Answer
According to the Marxist point of view are the motive force behind all politics.
  1. A
    Individual Interests
  2. B
    Social interests
  3. C
    Conflicting economic interest
  4. D
    Ruling class interests
Question 50Single Answer
"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?
  1. A
    Monroe
  2. B
    Jules Ferry
  3. C
    Synder
  4. D
    Moon
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