Correct : C. Bestowing favoured treatment to the hithere deprived sections
2. Who among the following holds the view that right are those conditions of social life without
which man cannot be his best self?
Correct : B. Laski
3. Who among the following opines that a right is a power clamined and recognized as
contributory to common good?
Correct : A. Green
4. In their essence rights are:
Correct : D. Aspects of social life
5. Who among the following held the view that right is man’s capacity of influencing the acts of
another by means of the opinion and force of society?
Correct : C. Holland
6. The work Law and Rights is authored by:
Correct : A. W.E Hocking
7. Rights are broadly divided into three categories: natural rights, moral rights and legal rights
Correct : D. All of the above
8. Which of the following is the use to which the term ‘liberty’ can be put?
Correct : D. All the above
9. Inequality in society was supported by:
Correct : D. Both (b) and (c)
10. In the nineteenth century, a vigorous demand for socio –econimic equality was raised by:
Correct : A. Working class
11. The work liberty, Equality, Fraternity is authored by:
Correct : A. J.F. Stephen
12. Legal equality implies:
Correct : D. Both (a) and (b)
13. Justice is a dynamic idea because
Correct : C. Both (a) and (b)
14. The earliest concept of justice in Greek thought is found to be in the writings of
Correct : D. Early pythagoreans
15. The concept of positive law is
Correct : A. Roman in origin
16. Who has termed social consciousness is modern consciousness in the context of the
determination of the meaning of justice?
Correct : B. D.D.Raphael
17. Legal justice is broadly applied in the context of :
Correct : C. Both (a) and (b)
18. Who among the following viewed that justice consisted in an efficient administration of law
and it should not be tested on some imaginary moral values?
Correct : B. Alf Ross
19. Democratic or political participation is the hall mark of democracy and
Correct : C. Both (a) and (b)
20. In the long run broadened participation is a variable of :
Correct : B. Social and economic modernization
21. The book India’s Development Experience is authored by:
Correct : D. Tarlock Singh
22. The system which enables the majority of a constituency in Switzerland to call back their representative from his office if they are not satisfied with his office and if they are not
satisfied with his work is:
Correct : B. Recall
23. The work ideology and Utopia is authored by:
Correct : A. Karl Mannheim
24. Who among the following insists on the ‘mono-national state’ as a condition of successful
democracy?
Correct : C. J.S Mill
25. The “iron law of oligarchy” was propounded by:
Correct : B. Robert Michels
26. He explained his view of democracy in his work ‘Political Main’. His view of democracy is based on what he calls the competitive character of governing elites in modern democracies.
He is:
Correct : C. S.Martin Lipset
27. Who among the following condemned democracy as “an aristocracy of black guards”?
Correct : D. Talleyrand
28. Which of the following works have been authored by C.B. Mapherson?
Correct : D. All the above
29. Who among the following has dubbed Marxism as a totalitarian doctrine?
Correct : D. Both (a) and (c)
30. Democracy as an ideal can be achieved through:
Correct : D. All the above
31. Which of the following is held as a transitional state in Marxian philosophy?
Correct : A. Socialist state
32. In the words of Woodrow Wilson, World War I was fought to make the world safe for:
Correct : C. Democracy
33. Who among the following was known to have been of the view that there has been a growing distrust and discontent with politicians and the political method evolved by parliamentary
democracy?
Correct : A. H.G Wells
34. Who calls democracy only an experiment in government?
Correct : B. Lowell
35. A democratic state means
Correct : C. That the community as a whole processes sovereign authority ad maintains ultimate control over affairs
36. Who described democracy as a government in which everyone has share?
Correct : A. Seeley
37. Who defines democracy as a form of government in which the government body is a
comparatively large fraction of the entire nation?
Correct : B. Dicey
38. A democratic society is one in which
Correct : C. The spirit of equality and fratemity prevails
39. Democracy in its narrow sense means
Correct : A. Rule by the many
40. Early Greek city states experimented with different forms of Government prominent among
them were:
Correct : D. All of the above
41. As a form of government, Aristotle preferred
Correct : C. Democracy
42. A powerful eighteenth century advocate of direct democracy was
Correct : A. Rousseau
43. Direct democracy was first practiced in the Greek city states. In the medieval times this type of
democracy was revived by
Correct : C. Italian city states
44. The nearest approach that one finds to direct democracy in some modern states in the form of
Correct : D. All of the above
45. Which of the following is the work authored by Lord Bryce?
Correct : C. Modern Democracies
46. Which of the following countries practice direct democracy in modern times?
Correct : B. Forest Cantons of Switzerland
47. Who among the following opinion that life is a “perpetual and restless desire for power after
power which ceases only in death”?
Correct : B. Bietzsche
48. Who among the following is one of the advocates of the power theory in politics ?
Correct : D. All of the above
49. Who founded the structural functional school in political science ?
Correct : D. Both (a) and (b)
50. Political socialization is the process of induction into the political culture and the psychological
dimension of the
Correct : B. Political system
51. Who defines the political system as the “institutions, processes and interactions throug which
values are authoritatively allocated in a society?
Correct : B. Easton
52. Who said that politics is concerned with the authoritative ‘allocation of values’ for a society?
Correct : B. David Easton
53. Which of the following is one of the traditionally recognized organs of power in a state?
Correct : C. Judiciary
54. The ‘power theory’ finds its brilliant manifestation in the political philosophy of
Correct : D. Rousseau
55. Which of the following are not the basic of the authority of society?
Correct : D. Moral pressure
56. The subject that deals with man in relation to the State and Government is called
Correct : C. Political Science
57. ________________is the central subject of the study of political science.
Correct : B. State
58. Who defines Political Science as that part of social science which treats the foundations of the
State and the principles of Government?
Correct : D. Paul Janet
59. Bluntschli restricted the scope of Political Science to
Correct : D. The study of State
60. Prof. Harold Laski emphasized the scope of Political Science to include the study of
Correct : C. State and Government
61. Who said that State comes into existence originating in the bare needs of life of man and
continuing in existence for the sake of good life?
Correct : C. Aristotle
62. _______________is the most important agency of the State
Correct : D. Government
63. The concept of ‘politics’ originated in ancient
Correct : C. Greece
64. Politics is a struggle for power on three levels
Correct : B. State, inter-state and intra-state
65. David Easton defined politics as authoritative allocation of
Correct : D. Values
66. A policy is authoritative when there __________to the authority
Correct : A. Willing compliance
67. The central idea of sovereignty is
Correct : B. Law
68. The main characteristics of a civil society are organization, interaction, communication and
Correct : C. Solidarity
69. Who among the following defined democracy as “the government of the people, for the
peop0le and by the people”?
Correct : C. Abraham Lincoln
70. Which of the following is not a method of democratic participation?
Correct : D. Listening the election speeches
71. The success of democracy depends upon
Correct : D. All of the above
72. Who wrote the book Considerations on Representative Government?
Correct : D. J.S. Mill
73. Which of the following is a permanent feature of a representative form of government?
Correct : A. Voting
74. Contribute towards the success of democracy?
Correct : D. Overpopulation
75. Hobbes idea of civil society is the area where in the liberty of the subject lies in
Correct : D. All of the above
76. According to the classical liberal theorists
Correct : B. State is a political agency
77. According to the liberal theory, the individual can find freedom by
Correct : B. Voluntary choice of activities
78. Who said “Rights, in fact, are those conditions of social life without which no man seek, in
general to be his best”?
Correct : B. Laski
79. Which of the following statement is true?
Correct : A. No rights can be given to the man against the social interest
80. According to _________”Life is not merely living but living well”
Correct : C. Aristotle
81. In the words of Laski
Correct : D. State is known by the rights it maintains
82. The statement “Men are born and always continue free and equal in respect of their rights is
associated with
Correct : B. French Declaration of Rights of Man, 1789
83. According to ___________”A right is a claim recognized by society and enforced by the
State”
Correct : B. Bosanquet
84. Which of the following is correct?
Correct : B. My right is your duty and your right is mu duty
85. Which of the following rights were considered important during middle ages?
Correct : D. And (c)
86. In the words of _________in his book Principles of social political Obligation, “Right are the external conditions necessary for the greatest possible development for the greatest possible
development of the capacities of the personality”
Correct : B. Barker
87. By fundamental rights we mean,
Correct : A. Right’s guaranteed by the constitution
88. The political Rights granted by the state enable a citizen to
Correct : A. Participate in the administration of the state
89. Which of the following is not a Theory of Rights?
Correct : C. Divine Rights of King
90. _________is the earliest theory of rights
Correct : A. Liberal individualist theory of Natural Rights
91. Locke is the supporter of
Correct : A. Theory of Natural rights
92. Which of the following statements is not associated with natural theory of rights?
Correct : D. Rights are alienable
93. Who among the following supported the theory of Natural Rights ?
Correct : A. Locke
94. According to _____________one’s natural rights are ones natural powers
Correct : B. Hobbes
95. Who among the following propounded the legal theory of rights?
Correct : A. Hobbes
96. In the opinion of Laski
Correct : B. Rights are prior to the state
97. Which of the following is an essential conditions for safeguarding rights of the individuals? I. Decentralisation of authority II. Existence of Consultative bodies III. Existence of supreme court IV. Non-interference by the state in the internal affairs of associations
Correct : D. Only I,II and IV
98. A bill of Rights is
Correct : A. A declaration of fundamental rights
99. Which of the following countries was the first to include a Bill of Rights?