Modern Political Analysis and Political Sociology | Set 1
1. Duverger’s classification of the party system is derived from the experience of political parties in
Correct : A. western europe
2. Who said ‘negative liberty is superior to positive liberty’?
Correct : B. isaiah berlin
3. Which one among the following is not a work about alienation?
Correct : C. poverty of philosophy
4. Who among the following presents a ‘flow model’ of political system?
Correct : B. david easton
5. Almond borrowed most of the terminology of his approach from
Correct : B. talcott parsons
6. Who among the following is associated with the “will and capacity” approach to the study of
political development?
Correct : C. halpern
7. Who among the following has connected cultures with civilizations?
Correct : B. huntington
8. The elite theory was first started in
Correct : C. central and western european countries
9. Who wrote the book, “Democracy and Discontent”?
Correct : B. atul kohli
10. Which among the following statements is not correct?
Correct : B. post-behavioural political theory is ethnocentric. c. post-behavioural political theory is tied to action and relevan
11. Positive liberalism does not believe in
Correct : D. minimal state
12. Marx does not believe in
Correct : A. human consciousness determines social existence
13. Which one of the following has tried to give an essentially engineering orientation to human
behaviour?
Correct : C. communications theory
14. The characteristics of Almond’s political system mostly resemble those of the political
system(s) of
Correct : A. united states of america
15. Which one of the following approaches/theories was first started as a critique of
democracy and socialism?
Correct : A. elite theory
16. With which liberal thinker would you associate “Democratic Peace Theory”?
Correct : A. michael doyle
17. According to Almond, which one is not a condition for political development?
Correct : C. overlapping of stages of development
18. Corporatism is an approach that is centrally concerned about
Correct : D. stresses the state and society interactions, especially the role of social interests influencing
19. Who among the following elite theorists said, “A man is effective in society as a whole, not so much because of his individual qualities as because of the social energies which
have been deposited in him by the mass”?
Correct : B. gasset
20. The politics of sex is no longer on the fringe of politics, but it is a central concern for
policy and law makers. Which category will this issue be placed under?
Correct : C. political culture
21. Who has called India a Democratic Developmental State?
Correct : B. james manor
22. Who among the following regards political development as political modernization plus
institutionalization?
Correct : B. helio jaquaribe
23. Who of the following makes a distinction between liberal constitutionalism and
Democratic disorder?
Correct : B. theda skocpol
24. The idea of Participatory democracy originates with
Correct : D. rousseau
25. Structural-functionalism is primarily
Correct : C. a framework of investigation
26. According to S.P. Huntigton “Political Decay” takes place when
Correct : A. mass mobilisation plus participation is greater than institutionalisation.
27. Notion of uneven development was a response to the 19th century ideas of
Correct : B. evolution and gradualism
28. Who among the following is associated with Institutional Approach?
Correct : A. james bryce
29. Who among the following challenged the idea of political development as a unilinear
process?
Correct : B. huntington
30. The difference between order and disorder is more important than the difference between
communism and liberal democracy is advocated by
Correct : D. huntington
31. Which one of the following writings is not written by Mao?
Correct : C. people’s war
32. Who among the following writers classified Elites into broad types?
(i) Organising and directing elites.
(ii) Informally organised and diffused elites
Correct : D. karl mannheim
33. Who among the following first developed the concept of general systems theory?
Correct : A. ludwig von bertallanfy
34. Structural functionalism as a method was developed to study the politics of
Correct : D. politics of developing countries
35. C. Wright Mill’s ‘The Power Elite’ is a study of the contemporary politics of
Correct : B. the united states of america
36. Who among the following identified the crises in political development on the basis of
his study of England?
Correct : B. lucian w. pye
37. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
Correct : C. pareto - the ruling class
38. Montesquieu’s theory of separation of powers emphasises primarily on
Correct : D. liberty
39. Who of the following advocated economic theory of democracy?
Correct : C. antony dawns d.
40. Who among the following used the concept of goal changing, feedback, and leaning?
Correct : B. karl duetsch
41. Who among the following makes a distinction between system maintenance and system
persistence?
Correct : B. david easton
42. Who among the following has given ‘sleeping dog’ theory of democratic culture?
Correct : D. almond and verba
43. This theory assumes that governments will be influenced by various interest groups and will not
be biased for or against any of those groups:
Correct : C. pluralist theory
44. The liberal theory of development has come to be associated with which of the
following political process?
Correct : D. industrialisation
45. Which of the following is the least essential for the essential for the explanation of the
Compensational Theory of Political Development?
Correct : A. inter-state relation
46. Who among the following is not associated with the classical theory of development?
Correct : B. edmund burke
47. The term ‘legitimisation crisis’ in terms of erosion of confidence in public institutions
resulting in coercive apparatus of states, was developed by:
Correct : D. habermas
48. Who among the following is not associated with the theory of Political Elites?
Correct : D. david apter
49. Which one of the following has been wrongly listed as a feature of Marxian democracy?
Correct : D. it should work through representative parliaments
50. Which one of the followings has been wrongly listed as a feature of Marxian
democracy?
Correct : D. emphasis on political freedom. 60. the economic aspects of democracy have been emphasised by constitutionality of laws
51. The concept of 'power elite' is connected with:
Correct : C. wright mills
52. Who of the following thinkers tried to combine the elitist theory with Marxism?
Correct : B. james burham
53. The Elitist theory holds that the power is always concentrated in the hands of:
Correct : D. a small group of elites
54. The exponents of elitist theory
Correct : C. do not believe in equality between ruler and ruled
55. The elitist theory believes in leaving the formulation and implementation of policy in the
hands of:
Correct : C. an elite class
56. The Pluralist theory of democracy holds that:
Correct : B. the power in society is shared by the government and other groups
57. The Pluralist theory of democracy is:
Correct : C. in favour of elections because they help in gauging public opinion
58. Who of the following philosophers was not associated with the Liberal Theory of
Democracy?
Correct : C. karl marx
59. The classical theory of democracy can be traced back to the writings of:
Correct : A. ancient greek philosophers
60. The basic principle of Liberal democracy that the sovereign drew his authority from the
people was first developed by:
Correct : B. hobbes
61. Who of the following thinkers asserted the principle that consent of the people' is the
basis of state?
Correct : D. lock
62. The two basic principles of liberal theory of democracy, which were emphasised by
Locke, were:
Correct : C. popular sovereignty and constitutional government
63. Which one of the followings has been wrongly listed as contribution of Rousseau to the
Liberal theory of democracy?
Correct : A. general welfare
64. Which one of the following thinkers emphasised the principles of adult franchise, representative government, freedom of press and frequent elections, which form the
cornerstone of Liberal theory of democracy?
Correct : A. j.s.mill
65. The chief contribution of Green to the Liberal theory of democracy was:
Correct : A. emphasis on collective well-being as condition of individual freedom
66. Which one of the following is true about elitist theory of democracy?
Correct : C. it believes that power is used by a small group of elites
67. Who of the following has laid stress on inter-disciplinary approach about the study of
the problems of state?
Correct : D. easton
68. The statement that' "A man who lives outside the Polis is either a beast or a god" is attributed to:
Correct : B. aristotle
69. According to Tretschke the essence of the state is:
Correct : D. force
70. Which approach featurise “State being the central theme of politics is conceived as an
inevitable consequence of class contradictions”?
Correct : B. marxian approach
71. Power is the capacity to
Correct : B. hold sovereignty
72. Authority is the right to
Correct : A. invoke tradition
73. The Iron Law of Oligarchy is associated with
Correct : A. michels
74. Who among the following theorists advocated participatory democracy?
Correct : A. c.b. macpherson
75. Who was the first proponentof scientific study of politics?
Correct : A. charles merriam
76. Behavioural approach in Politics Science is an attempt to make the empirical content of
Political Science more scientific who said this?
Correct : A. charles merriam
77. Eighth principles of the behavioural approach of political science generally known as
Correct : B. pure science
78. The strong demands of Post behaviouralists are
Correct : B. relevance and action
79. In the year 1960, application of structural functionalism by Almond and Powell was an
application of
Correct : D. easton’s framework of political system
80. Cybernetics means:
Correct : D. science of communicating
81. Who propounded communication theory?
Correct : C. norbert weiner
82. Which theory believes in applying mathematical models to political studies?
Correct : C. the game theory
83. The game theory was developed in the 1920s by
Correct : D. emil borel
84. 1. Studies of look for basic, general values on politics and government.
Correct : B. political culture
85. According to Gabriel Almond and Sydney Verba, what are the three types of political
cultures?
Correct : D. parochial, subject and participant
86. What is political socialization?
Correct : A. the means by which we inherit our political culture