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Foundation of Political Science | Set 1

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?

Correct : B. Sartori