1. Which of the following is not a traditional approach to the study of Political Science?
Correct : C. historiography
2. Whose work is “A History of Political Theory?”
Correct : D. george sabine
3. The ancient Greeks used the following word for the term ‘state’
Correct : B. polis
4. What is Constitutional Law?
Correct : A. provisions given in the constitution
5. The most common form that democracy takes in our time is that of
Correct : B. representative democracy
6. Who wrote the work “The Web of Government”?
Correct : D. catlin
7. One of the following is an advocate of historical approach
Correct : C. henry maine
8. Who used to say “I am the state”?
Correct : A. louis xiv
9. Which view is observed ‘the state is a necessary evil’?
Correct : B. individualistic view
10. Who observed ‘the state is the march of God on Earth’?
Correct : C. hegel
11. Who wrote the work “The Prince”?
Correct : D. machiavelli
12. Theorists who believe that “state is an association of associations” are best described as
Correct : A. pluralists
13. Who contributed “Leviathan”?
Correct : B. hobbes
14. Who said ‘power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely’?
Correct : C. acton
15. Which among the following is not a feature of sovereignty?
Correct : C. delegation
16. Who wrote the work ‘Anarchy, State and Utopia’?
Correct : C. robert nozick
17. Who among the following is associated with the Rule of law?
Correct : C. a.v. dicey
18. Constitutional government implies
Correct : A. limited government
19. An essential pre-requisite for constitutionalism?
Correct : D. limited government
20. The theory of separation of powers was initiated by
Correct : A. montesquieu
21. The first systematic classification of government was given by
Correct : B. aristotle
22. According to Aristotle, the best of government was
Correct : D. polity
23. Who is called the keystone of the cabinet arch in a parliamentary system?
Correct : C. prime minister
24. All the ministers swim and sink together. This is true of the following form of government
Correct : D. parliamentary
25. The principle of one for all and all for one implies
Correct : C. collective responsibility
26. Who among the advocate of negative theory of liberty?
Correct : D. isaiah berlin
27. Which of the following is a central attribute of Plato’s notion of justice?
Correct : A. harmony
28. The term ‘sovereignty’ is derived from the word ‘superanus’ of which language
Correct : B. latin
29. Fascist movement first developed in
Correct : D. italy
30. Fascist ideology wish to establish the government of
Correct : C. one leader
31. Whosaid ‘My Programme is action and not talk'
Correct : C. mussolini
32. Which of the following is not an element of fascism?
Correct : D. it is against imperialism
33. Fascism resembles Communism (Marxism) in so far it stands for
Correct : D. totalitarian state
34. The idea that the sovereign nation state should be the main object of the political loyalty of
individual is
Correct : B. nationalism
35. In view of classical thinker nationalism lead to
Correct : A. equality, democracy and distrust of empire
36. Modern liberals were differ from classical because
Correct : D. it stands for a world free from all forms of tyranny and exploitation
37. The principle of 'greatest good of the greatest number' was advocated by
Correct : C. utilitarianism
38. Positivist Liberals are in favour of:
Correct : C. state regulation of the economic conditions in the interests of workers
39. Which one of the following is not true about liberalism?
Correct : B. it has no faith in human reasoning
40. A democratic government is better than a non-democratic government because
Correct : B. it always responds to the needs of the people
41. Who among the following is not support the limiting the function of the state
Correct : C. karl marx
42. According to John Dewey contemporary liberalism is
Correct : C. both a programme and action
43. Liberalism stands for
Correct : D. all the above.
44. Which of the following ideas was borrowed by Marx from Hegel?
Correct : C. dialectical materialism
45. Who said, “Capitalism carried within itself the seeds of its own decay”?
Correct : B. karl marx
46. The term ‘Politics’ was first employed by
Correct : C. aristotle
47. The statement that “A man without society is either a beast or a God” is attributed to
Correct : C. aristotle
48. Political parties have been described as ‘power behind the throne’ by
Correct : A. herman finer
49. Who was the author of the book ‘On Liberty’?
Correct : D. j. s mill
50. Parliamentary government is accountable to the
Correct : B. legislature
51. In a Federal Government, the powers are divided between the Centre and the States by
Correct : C. the constitution
52. A Unitary government has
Correct : D. a single citizenship
53. Rule of Law is one of the Fundamental principles of the
Correct : B. british constitution
54. Most favoured technique of pressure groups, in the USA is
Correct : B. lobbying
55. Psephology deals with
Correct : B. voting behavior and election studies
56. The argument that the study of Political Science focused on State and government belongs to
Correct : A. traditional approach
57. The Classic work on “Public opinion” was authored by
Correct : B. walter lippmann
58. The theory of ideal state is associated with
Correct : A. plato
59. Political homogeneity is a feature of
Correct : C. parliamentary system
60. ‘Filibustering’ is associated with
Correct : A. law making
61. “The Functions of the Executive” was written by
Correct : B. chester bernard
62. The concept of labour theory of value is propounded by
Correct : C. david ricardo
63. Which one of the following is not a concept of Gandhiji
Correct : C. classeless democracy
64. Which one of the following is not a technique of Satyagraha
Correct : A. sarvodaya
65. Who started Sarvodaya as a social movement
Correct : C. vinobha bhave
66. In a Parliamentary system the council of ministers are responsible to
Correct : C. parliament
67. The meeting of the cabinet is presided over by
Correct : C. prime minister
68. A representative democracy is the most suitable form of government for enactment of laws
that are consistent with
Correct : A. public opinion
69. West Minister model stands for particular form of
Correct : C. government
70. According to Marx the state came into being to
Correct : D. legalise exploitation of the poor by the state
71. Which institution in a federal system is called 'Balancing Wheel of theConstitution'?
Correct : C. judiciary
72. Who gave the view that ‘ A constitutional state 'is one in which the powers of government,
the rights of the governed and the relations between the two are adjusted'?
Correct : B. c. f. strong
73. ‘Those who says that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion
means’ who said this ?
Correct : A. gandhi
74. In which theory of origin of the state, political conscience is an important factor
Correct : D. evolutionary theory
75. “The art of looking for trouble. Finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it wrongly and
applying the wrong remedy” Who among the following gave the above definition of politics?
Correct : B. Ernest Benn
76. Who among the following pioneered the integration of the study of political science with
psychology?
Correct : B. Walter Bagehot
77. Who among the following advocated that the central idea of the political science is power?
Correct : C. Max weber
78. Harold Lasswell’s “Politics: Who Gets, What, when and How” discusses:
Correct : B. Scientific method and value-relativism
79. Who among the following employed a biological method in the study of politics?
Correct : D. Herbert Spencer
80. The work ‘Power and Society’ is co-authored by :
Correct : D. Harold Lasswell and Abraham Kaplan
81. The keynote of liberalism is _________
Correct : B. Liberty
82. The famous ‘fourfold functional analysis’ of the social systems is made by
Correct : D. Talcott Parsons
83. A scientific sociological evaluation of the state has been discussed by:
Correct : D. Engels in The origin of the family, private property and the state
84. Jurisprudence is
Correct : D. Science of law
85. The work ‘Political Science: A philosophical Analysis’ is authored by:
Correct : C. Vermon van Dyke
86. Which of the following works have nsote been authored by R.M. MacIver?
Correct : D. An introduction to Politics
87. Which of the following have been authored by RobertDahl?
Correct : D. Both (a) and (c)
88. In Marxist theory, society is divided into dominant and dependent classes and the former
controls the state which is an embodiment of:
Correct : A. Political Power
89. Who opined that it was in small states that democracy first arose?
Correct : A. Lord Bryee
90. The chief proponents of the theory of natural rights are
Correct : A. John Locke and Thomas Paine
91. Which of the following theories is the one opposed to the theory of natural rights?
Correct : C. Legal theory of right
92. The historical theory of rights can be summed up in the sentence:
Correct : A. History makes right
93. In connection with rights, Bentham and Mill expressly advocate the principle of utility in
opposition to :
Correct : B. Merely following customs and appealing to the arbitrary voice of nature
94. Who among the following laid down an elaborate defiance of personal liberty?
Correct : D. John Stuar Mill
95. Civil liberty stands for :
Correct : D. Liberty to free action and immunity from interference
96. Who among the following held the view that liberty and equality are opposed to each other?
1.J.S Mill 2. Lord Hewart 3. De Tocqueville 4. Lord Acton
Correct : C. 3 and 4
97. “----- Who opines that freedom exists only because there is restraint”
Correct : D. Willoughby
98. “Man is free when he obey’s the law of impulse for self –perfection” – Green in the above
statement Thomas Hill Green upholds which of the following ideas of freedom?
Correct : B. Moral freedom
99. Democracy in Crisis 3. Democracy in Crisis
28. The author of Anarchy, State and Utopia is
Correct : C. Robert Nozick
100. The idea of joining or fitting’ is implied in the concept of