1. Who defined political science is “that part of social science which treats the foundations of the
foundations of the state and principles of government”?
Correct : A. Paul Janet
2. Who is the author of “A History of Political Theory”?
Correct : B. Sabine
3. Who described historical approach as ‘historicism’?
Correct : C. Popper
4. Which approach is, according to Rober A Dahl, an attempt to make the empirical content of
Political Science more scientific “
Correct : D. Behavioural Approach
5. Who introduced ‘intellectual foundations’ for behavioural approach?
Correct : A. Easton
6. Who said “the concept of power is the most fundamental in the whole of Political Science: the
Political Process is the shaping, dissolution and exercise of power” ?
Correct : B. Lasswell and Kaplan
7. Who is known as the greatest advocate of Post-Behaviouralism?
Correct : B. Easton
8. Which approach demands ‘relevance’ and ‘action’?
Correct : B. Post-Behaviouralist Approach
9. Whose definition encompasses the ‘politics of consent’ as well as the ‘politics of struggle’?
Correct : A. Easton
10. Who introduced ‘politics of consent’ ?
Correct : A. Lasswell
11. Which approach featurise “State being the central theme of politics is conceived as an
inevitable consequence of class contradictions”?
Correct : B. Marxian Approach
12. Who said “Marxian approach is not a matter of problems to be solved but a state of domination
and subjugation to be ended by a total transformation of the conditions which give rise to it”
Correct : C. Miliband
13. The term ‘state’ is derived from which language?
Correct : A. Latin
14. Who defined “the state is the politically organised people of a definite territory” ?
Correct : A. Bluntschli
15. 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
16. ho introduced the “subjective desire of the people”?
Correct : A. Willoughby
17. Who said “State is an association which acting through law as promulgated by a government
endowed to this end with coercive power,..condition of social order”?
Correct : D. Mac Iver
18. Who defined an association as “a group organised for the pursuit of an interest or a group of
interest in common”?
Correct : B. Iver
19. Who said “state is a political instrument a machine for maintaining the rule of one class over
another” ?
Correct : A. Lenin
20. hose treatise, “the origin of the Family, Private Property and the State”?
Correct : A. Marx
21. Who is the author of the book ‘Ancient Society’?
Correct : A. Morgan; Engels
22. Who wrote ‘The poverty of Philosophy’?
Correct : C. Marx
23. Who wrote “State and Revolution”?
Correct : D. Lenin
24. Who wrote “Anti-Duhring”
Correct : A. Engels
25. Who defined sovereignty as the ‘the supreme power over citizens and subjects unrestrained
by laws’ ?
Correct : B. Jean Bodin
26. Who is the exponent of Monistic theory of sovereignty ?
Correct : C. Austin
27. Who defined sovereignty is “the sum total of the influences in a state which lie behind the
law” ?
Correct : C. Gilchrist
28. Who defined sovereignty on the basis of the concept of law as “a command given by a
superior to an inferior”
Correct : D. Austin
29. Who criticise sovereignty does not reside in a determinate human superior ?
Correct : D. Maine
30. Who said ‘Kinship created a common consciousness, common interest and common purpose’
?
Correct : B. Maine
31. Find the wrong one of this list?
Correct : B. Hobbes
32. Who points , because society is federal, authority must also be federal?
Correct : D. Laski
33. Who opined that ‘the logical consequence of Pluralism is chaos’ ?
Correct : B. Gilchrist
34. Whose work is “Modern State”
Correct : D. MacIver
35. Who is the author of ‘Crisis in the Theory of State’ ?
Correct : A. Laski
36. Who is the great liberal writer of the 17th century ?
Correct : B. Locke
37. Which is the work of Montesquieu ?
Correct : C. The Spirit of Laws
38. Who said , there is no better test of the excellence of a government, than the efficiency of the
judicial system’ ?
Correct : A. James Bryce
39. Who said “every state is enormously dependent upon the quality of its public officials”?
Correct : B. Laski
40. In which case Judicial Review was originated in the United States ?
Correct : D. Marbury v/s Madison
41. Which Article vide the power of Judicial Review is clearly engrafted into the Constitution of
India ?
Correct : B. Article 13
42. Which work is written by Dicey?
Correct : C. Introduction to the Study of Law of the Constitution
43. Who wrote ‘The Process of Government’
Correct : A. Arthur Bentley
44. Whose work is “Human Nature in Politics”
Correct : B. Wallas
45. Who wrote “New Aspects of Politis”
Correct : C. Merriam
46. Find out the work of Lasswell and Kaplan
Correct : C. Power and Society
47. Who wrote “The Political System”
Correct : D. Easton
48. The term ‘Historicism’ was made popular by
Correct : C. Popper
49. ‘It is better to be vague than irrelevant’. This statement explains the following
Correct : A. Post-behaviouralism
50. The Iron Law of Oligarchy is associated with
Correct : B. Michels
51. Who regarded revolution as a means of achieving freedom?
Correct : C. John Milton
52. Human consciousness postulates liberty, liberty involves rights, rights demand the state, who
has made this statement?
Correct : B. Green
53. Which factor is necessary for the development of democratic institutions?
Correct : B. respect for individual rights
54. Who said “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” ?
Correct : A. Lord Acton
55. Parliamentary form of government first involved in
Correct : B. The United Kingdom
56. India has adopted Rule of Law on the pattern of
Correct : C. Britain with certain modifications
57. Who said that Bureaucracy is “a regulated administrative system organized as a series of
interrelated offices ?
Correct : B. Gladden
58. The power to decide an election petition is vested in the
Correct : C. High Courts
59. Who said, “Revolution is a sweeping fundamental change in the predominant myth of a social
order”?
Correct : D. Neumann
60. Participation is an important element of every
Correct : C. Democratic System
61. 'If sovereignty is not absolute, no state will exist'. Who said this ?
Correct : D. None of the above
62. According to Marx 'the Dictatorship of the proletariat' signifies ?
Correct : A. A transitional state
63. Who said ‘Neutrality is’ one of the strongest bulworks of democracy ?
Correct : C. Ajay Baseli
64. “All administration means domination” who said this ?
Correct : A. Weber
65. Who among the following first developed the concept of general system theory
Correct : B. Ludwig Von Bertallanffy
66. Democracy is meaningless without
Correct : D. Freedom of speech
67. Structural functionalism as a method was developed to study the politics of
Correct : B. Politics of developing countries
68. Who wrote “Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign
Correct : D. J.S. Mill
69. Gandhi describe himself as a
Correct : B. Philosophical anarchist
70. David Easton stated in his work, The Political System, 1953, that two kinds of political inputs
are:
Correct : C. Demand and support
71. According to Aristotle, democracy is
Correct : B. The same as oligarchy
72. Power is the capacity to
Correct : B. Hold sovereignty
73. Authority is the right to
Correct : A. Invoke tradition
74. Sovereignty refers to
Correct : A. Ruling monarchs
75. Which of the following is the function of political parties?
Correct : C. Aggregating (combining) interest
76. The assignment of law-making, law-enforcing, and law-interpreting functions to independent
branches of the government is called
Correct : A. separation of powers
77. Social capital is based on
Correct : D. A culture of trust and cooperation
78. Who introduced hegemony in the concept of civil society?
Correct : B. Gramsci
79. Who said ‘civilisation is not a burden, but it is an opportunity?
Correct : B. Gandhi
80. The Iron Law of Oligarchy is associated with
Correct : A. Michels
81. Who wrote the work ‘a preface to democratic theory’?
Correct : A. Dahl
82. The most essential principle of liberalism is
Correct : D. Freedom
83. Who is guild socialist?
Correct : C. Cole
84. Socialism is:
Correct : B. An economic system for communism
85. An institution is a form of
Correct : A. Organisation
86. Who said Politics is about 'who gets what, when and how'?
Correct : A. Lasswell
87. Social justice is primarily concerned with
Correct : D. Who should get what in society
88. Equality of opportunity means
Correct : B. Everybody finishes the same start in life
89. Which one of the following countries introduced universal adult franchise is one move?
Correct : C. India
90. Who among the following argued that universal suffrage does injustice to property owners?
Correct : A. J.S. Mill
91. Who among the following described democracy as the ‘tyranny of the majority?
Correct : D. De Tocqueville
92. Who among the following is not an exponent of ‘Elitist Theory of Democracy’?
Correct : D. C Macpherson
93. Who among the following advocated partyless democracy in India?
Correct : B. Jayprakash Narayan
94. Who among the following theorists advocated participatory democracy?
Correct : A. C.B. Macpherson
95. Who among the following has described the world wide triumph of liberal democracy as the
‘end of history’?
Correct : A. Samuel P. Huntington
96. Who among the following favoured qualification as the basis for right to vote?
Correct : C. J.S. Mill
97. Participatory democracy calls for:
Correct : B. greater and active engagement of citizens in government
98. Which is Canada’s political system?
Correct : D. a parliamentary democracy
99. Rational-legal authority also known as
Correct : D. Bureaucratic
100. “A partyess regime is a conservative regime an anti-party regime is a reactionary regime.”
Who made this statement?