1. Which of the following are the features on the basis of which the parliamentary system of
government operates?
Correct : D. all of the above
2. Which is not a feature of Presidential form of government?
Correct : D. dissolution of lower house.
3. The concept of Rights, Property, Liberty, Equality and Justice are related to—
Correct : C. democracy
4. The legal theory of Rights believes that—
Correct : A. the rights are created by the state
5. Civil rights are given to the individuals by—
Correct : A. the state
6. Who said, “Liberty is the opposite of Over Government”
Correct : D. seeley
7. Who first gave the Concept of ‘Distributive Justice’?
Correct : B. aristotle
8. In Democracy, source of Authority is vested in—
Correct : A. the people
9. Landsgemeinde is a direct democratic institutions in which country
Correct : C. switzerland
10. Who is the author of ‘A Grammar of Politics’?
Correct : D. laski
11. ‘ Administrative law ‘is popular in
Correct : B. france
12. “State is known by the rights that it maintains” who said?
Correct : D. laski
13. Which law is popular in England?
Correct : B. rule of law
14. What is the maximum term provided for an ordinance?
Correct : B. 6months
15. Which among the following is a Political right?
Correct : A. right to hold public office
16. Negative liberty implies that,
Correct : A. freedom should be unlimited
17. Which law is made by the legislature?
Correct : B. statutory law
18. Rousseau authored the book
Correct : A. social contract
19. Which day is observed as International Human Rights Day?
Correct : B. december 10
20. Referendum means
Correct : D. refer to the people
21. Plebiscite is a word derived from,
Correct : A. plebiscitum
22. Plebiscite means
Correct : A. people’s opinion
23. Which of the following country follows a multi party system
Correct : C. france
24. Which is known as the citadel of democracy?
Correct : A. athens
25. Who defined political science is “that part of social science which treats the foundations of
the state and principles of government”?
Correct : A. paul janet
26. Who introduced ‘intellectual foundations stones’ for behavioural approach?
Correct : A. easton
27. Which approach is, according to Rober A Dahl, an attempt to make the empirical content of
Political Science more scientific
Correct : D. behavioural approach
28. Who said PoliticalScience is the sharing and shaping up of of power”?
Correct : B. lasswell
29. Who is known as the greatest advocate of Post-Behaviouralism?
Correct : B. easton
30. Which approach demands ‘relevance’ and ‘action’?
Correct : B. post-behaviouralist approach
31. Which approach considers “State being an engine of tyranny and exploitation?
Correct : B. marxian approach
32. The term ‘state’ is derived from which language?
Correct : A. latin
33. Who defined “the state is the politically organised people of a definite territory”?
Correct : A. bluntschli
34. Who said, state is a “territorial society divided into government and subjects whose
relationships are determined by the exercise of this supreme coercive power”?
Correct : A. laski
35. Whose treatise, “the origin of the Family, Private Property and the State”?
Correct : B. engels
36. Who is the author of the book ‘Ancient Society’?
Correct : A. morgan
37. Who defined sovereignty as the ‘the supreme power over citizens and subjects unrestrained
by laws’?
Correct : B. jean bodin
38. Which one of the following is not an element of the state?
Correct : C. associations
39. Who said ‘Kinship creates society and society at length creates the state
Correct : C. maciver
40. Who points, because society is federal, authority must also be federal?
Correct : D. laski
41. Whose work is ‘ Das Capital ‘
Correct : A. karl marx
42. What is the first virtue of social institution, according to Rawls?
Correct : D. justice.
43. To what domain did Rawls direct his views of justice?
Correct : A. political domain
44. Rawls conceives of the original contract as one to:
Correct : C. establish the principles of justice for the basic structure of society
45. ‘Theory of Justice’ is a work by:
Correct : C. john rawls
46. Which is the work of Montesquieu?
Correct : C. the spirit of laws
47. Shadow cabinet is a system prevails in which country
Correct : A. u k
48. Deliberative democracy involves
Correct : C. extensive public debate before taking decisions
49. Which work is written by Dicey?
Correct : C. introduction to the study of law of the constitution
50. Who wrote ‘The Process of Government’
Correct : A. arthur bentley
51. Whose work is “Human Nature in Politics”
Correct : B. wallas
52. Who wrote “New Aspects of Politis”
Correct : C. merriam
53. Who wrote “The Political System”
Correct : D. easton
54. ‘It is better to be vague than irrelevant’. This statement explains the following
Correct : A. post-behaviouralism
55. Who introduced the concept of natural rights?
Correct : A. john locke
56. Legal theory of right was propounded by
Correct : B. laski
57. Which factor is necessary for the development of democratic institutions?
Correct : B. respect for individual rights
58. Parliamentary form of government first involved in
Correct : B. the united kingdom
59. India has adopted Rule of Law on the pattern of
Correct : C. britain with certain modifications
60. A direct vote on a law in which the entire electorate can participate is known as ”?
Correct : A. referendum
61. Participation is an important element of every
Correct : C. democratic system
62. Which act is considered the watch dog of democracy?
Correct : C. the right to information act
63. According to Marx 'the Dictatorship of the proletariat' signifies?
Correct : A. a transitional state
64. Who among the following first developed the concept of General System theory
Correct : B. ludwig von bertallanffy
65. Structural functionalism as a method was developed to study the politics of
Correct : B. developing countries
66. Who wrote the book ‘Comparative Politics: A Development Approach
Correct : A. almond and powell
67. Who wrote “Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign
Correct : D. j.s. mill
68. Gandhi describe himself as a
Correct : B. philosophical anarchist
69. According to Aristotle, democracy is
Correct : C. a perverted form of government
70. The term ‘lag’ denotes
Correct : A. something which lies fixed
71. Power is the capacity to
Correct : C. produce intended effects
72. Who wrote the work ‘A Preface to Democratic Theory’?
Correct : A. dahl
73. The most essential principle of liberalism is
Correct : D. freedom
74. Socialism is:
Correct : B. an economic system for communism
75. Who said Politics is about 'who gets what, when and how'?
Correct : A. lasswell
76. Who introduced the concept of negative and positive rights?
Correct : A. andrew haywood
77. Social justice is primarily concerned with
Correct : D. who should get what in society?
78. Equality of opportunity means
Correct : B. everybody finishes the same start in life
79. Who among the following described democracy as the ‘tyranny of the majority?
Correct : D. de tocqueville
80. Who among the following advocated party less democracy in India?
Correct : B. jayprakash narayan
81. What did Gandhiji mean by Swaraj?
Correct : D. complete independence
82. Who among the following theorists advocated participatory democracy?
Correct : A. c.b. macpherson
83. Which of the following does not lead to the spread of democracy?
Correct : C. invasion by foreign countries
84. Participatory democracy calls for:
Correct : B. greater and active engagement of citizens in government
85. The advocates of deliberative democracy emphasize
Correct : D. popular participation
86. The Communist manifesto was first published in
Correct : C. german
87. According to David Easton, the main function of government is to:
Correct : D. allocate authoritatively values for a whole society.
88. The term ‘politics’ was derived from two words ‘polis’ and ‘polity’ in which language
Correct : A. greek
89. Who defined politics as “the authoritative allocation of values that are binding on the
society?”
Correct : C. david easton
90. Who contributed the work ‘the Politics’?
Correct : A. aristotle
91. The development of Political Science as a discipline can be traced back to
Correct : A. 4th century b.c
92. Who was the first proponent of scientific study of Politics?
Correct : A. charles merriam
93. Who said this , ‘behavioural approach is a protest movement within politics science and
make the empirical component more rigorous’
Correct : B. robert a dahl
94. Eighth principles of the behavioural approach of political science generally known as
Correct : C. intellectual foundations
95. Who wrote the book ‘Four Essays on Liberty’?
Correct : D. isaiah berlin
96. Who was the most ardent advocate of Post Behaviouralism?
Correct : A. david easton
97. The strong demands of Post behaviouralists are
Correct : B. relevance and action
98. Historical materialism is one of the tools in
Correct : C. marxism
99. Whose work is Lecturers on Jurisprudence”?
Correct : B. john austin
100. Who wrote the work “Representative Government”?