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Question Paper Name: Political Science 27th May 2019 Shift 1 SET 1

Subject Name: Political Science

Creation Date: 2019-05-27 15:06:19

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Duration: 180

Total Marks: 100

Display Marks: Yes

Share Answer Key With Delivery Engine: Yes

Actual Answer Key: Yes

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Political Science

Group Number: 1

Group Id: 12820610

Group Maximum Duration: 0

Group Minimum Duration: 180

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Revisit allowed for view?: No

Revisit allowed for edit?: No

Break time: 0

Group Marks: 100

PART A

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Section Id: 12820

Section Number: 1

Section type: Online

Mandatory or Optional: Mandatory

Number of Questions: 50

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Number of Questions to be attempted: 50

Section Marks: 100

Display Number Panel: Yes

Group All Questions: No

Sub-Section Number: 1

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Sub-Section Id: 12820626

Question Shuffling Allowed: Yes

Question Number: 1 Question Id: 128206532 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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"...is the positive power or capacity of doing or enjoying something worth doing or enjoying". Who said this?

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  1. Lord Acton
  2. T.H. Green
  3. J.S. Mill
  4. Edmund Burke

Options:

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1282062093. A

1282062094. B

1282062095. C

1282062096. D

Question Number: 2 Question Id: 128206533 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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What is the main function of the state according to pluralism?

  1. Promote all round welfare of citizens
  2. Coordinate and harmonize activities of all groups and associations
  3. Regulate the conflict between capital and labour
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  5. Produce essential goods.

Options:

1282062097. A

1282062098. B

1282062099. C

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1282062100. D

Question Number: 3 Question Id: 128206534 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Who among the following advanced the notion of 'veil of ignorance' in his theory?

  1. Benetto Croce
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  3. Rousseau
  4. Hobbes
  5. Rawls

Options:

1282062101. A

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1282062102. B

1282062103. C

1282062104. D

Question Number: 4 Question Id: 128206535 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Which group accepted 'gradualness' as the midwife of social change?

  1. Monists
  2. Marxists
  3. Anarchists
  4. Fabians
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Options:

1282062105. A

1282062106. B

1282062107. C

1282062108. D

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Question Number: 5 Question Id: 128206536 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Which of the following is not an idea of individualism?

  1. Laissez faire
  2. Hindrances function of the state
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  4. Enhancement of contracts lawfully made
  5. Taking care of individual life from cradle to grave

Options:

1282062109. A

1282062110. B

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1282062111. C

1282062112. D

Question Number: 6 Question Id: 128206537 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Which among the following book is not authored by Partha Chatterjee?

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  1. Lineages of Political Society
  2. The Politics of the Governed
  3. A Possible India
  4. The Idea of India

Options:

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1282062113. A

1282062114. B

1282062115. C

1282062116. D

Question Number: 7 Question Id: 128206538 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Which of the following need/needs votes of two third majority of total membership of both houses of parliament?

  1. Impeachment of President
  2. Removal of the Vice-President
  3. Removal of the Supreme Court Judges
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  5. Amendment of Lists in the Scheduled Seven of the Constitution.
  1. (i) only
  2. (i) & (iv) only
  3. (ii) & (iii) only
  4. (i), (ii), (iii) & (iv) only
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Options:

1282062117. A

1282062118. B

1282062119. C

1282062120. D

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Question Number: 8 Question Id: 128206539 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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In the Republican theory of freedom, freedom is defined as the absence of:

  1. Physical barriers
  2. Inner constraints
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  4. Domination
  5. Interference

Options:

1282062121. A

1282062122. B

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1282062123. C

1282062124. D

Question Number: 9 Question Id: 128206540 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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...is part of whose theory of justice?

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  1. Michael Sandel
  2. Amartya Sen
  3. John Rawls
  4. Robert Nozick

Options:

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1282062125. A

1282062126. B

1282062127. C

1282062128. D

Question Number: 10 Question Id: 128206541 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Which of the following is not a reason that Mill offers in defense of the liberty of speech and expression?

  1. Difference between self-regarding and other regarding action
  2. Truth is many sided
  3. Truth emerges from debate between conflicting positions
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  5. Even a Small minority of one can turn out to be correct

Options:

1282062129. A

1282062130. B

1282062131. C

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1282062132. D

Question Number: 11 Question Id: 128206542 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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The universal breadwinner model for society has been criticized for undermining the importance of

  1. Equality
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  3. Independence
  4. Care work
  5. Individualism

Options:

1282062133. A

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1282062134. B

1282062135. C

1282062136. D

Question Number: 12 Question Id: 128206543 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Who was the Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Constituent Assembly of India?

  1. Jawaharlal Nehru
  2. Rajendra Prasad
  3. B. R. Ambedkar
  4. Vallabhbhai Patel
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Options:

1282062137. A

1282062138. B

1282062139. C

1282062140. D

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Question Number: 13 Question Id: 128206544 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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What was Aristotle's attitude towards slavery?

  1. He disapproved strongly
  2. He disapproved reluctantly
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  4. He considered it to be against nature
  5. He considered it to be natural

Options:

1282062141. A

1282062142. B

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1282062143. C

1282062144. D

Question Number: 14 Question Id: 128206545 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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What sort of government did Hobbes support in Leviathan?

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  1. Constitutional Monarchy
  2. Direct Democracy
  3. Absolute Monarchy
  4. Representative Democracy

Options:

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1282062145. A

1282062146. B

1282062147. C

1282062148. D

Question Number: 15 Question Id: 128206547 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Mill understood liberty primarily in -------- terms.

  1. Discursive
  2. Positive
  3. Neutral
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  5. Negative

Options:

1282062149. A

1282062150. B

1282062151. C

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1282062152. D

Question Number: 16 Question Id: 128206547 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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The argument that international relations are characterized by anarchy which makes it necessary for the states to maintain their independence and safeguard national interest is associated with;

  1. Liberalism
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  3. Constructivism
  4. Marxism
  5. Realism

Options:

1282062153. A

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1282062154. B

1282062155. C

1282062156. D

Question Number: 17 Question Id: 128206548 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Who among the following predicted that the next world war is likely to be the conflict between "the West and the Rest"?

  1. Fukuyama
  2. Said
  3. Chomsky
  4. Huntington
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Options:

Question Number: 18 Question Id: 128206549 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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"Rights are those conditions of social life without which no man can seek, in general, to be himself at his best". Who said this?

  1. Ernest Barker
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  3. Bernard Bosanquet
  4. Harold Laski
  5. Jeremey Bentham

Options:

1282062161. A

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1282062162. B

1282062163. C

1282062164. D

Question Number: 19 Question Id: 128206550 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Legal sovereignty in India lies with the:

  1. Supreme Court
  2. Parliament
  3. Law Commission
  4. Constitution
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Options:

1282062165. A

1282062166. B

1282062167. C

1282062168. D

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Question Number: 20 Question Id: 128206551 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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According to Gramsci, concept of hegemony means:

  1. Moral and intellectual leadership
  2. Material apparatus
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  4. Coercive power of the state
  5. Political dynasty

Question Number: 21 Question Id: 128206552 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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"No association can last if its members do not practice justice among themselves". This idea is central to whose philosophy?

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  1. Aristotle
  2. Plato
  3. Rawls
  4. Cicero

Options:

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1282062173. A

1282062174. B

1282062175. C

1282062176. D

Question Number: 22 Question Id: 128206553 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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T.H. Marshall's definition of citizenship as 'full and equal membership in the political community' refers to:

  1. Citizenship as a status
  2. Citizenship as an identity
  3. Citizenship as an aspiration
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  5. Citizenship as differentiated

Options:

1282062177. A

1282062178. B

1282062179. C

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1282062180. D

Question Number: 23 Question Id: 128206554 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Which among the following systems is followed?

  1. Single Transferable Vote System
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  3. Additional Member System
  4. Mixed Member Proportional Representation
  5. Part List System

Options:

1282062181. A

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1282062182. B

1282062183. C

1282062184. D

Question Number: 24 Question Id: 128206555 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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The re-drawing of the boundaries of electoral constituencies to maximize the efficiency of party's support is referred to as;

  1. Delimitation
  2. Gerrymandering
  3. First Past the Post System
  4. Patronage system
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Options:

1282062185. A

1282062186. B

1282062187. C

1282062188. D

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Question Number: 25 Question Id: 128206556 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Which among the following fundamental rights in the Constitution of India is available to both citizens and aliens?

  1. Prohibition of discrimination on ground of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth
  2. Equality before Law
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  4. Equality of Opportunity in matters of public employment
  5. Freedom of Speech

Options:

1282062189. A

1282062190. B

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Question Number: 26 Question Id: 128206557 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Which among the following is not relevant for the federal polity in India?

  1. Article 370
  2. Article 243
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  4. V Schedule
  5. VI Schedule

Options:

1282062193. A

1282062194. B

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1282062195. C

1282062196. D

Question Number: 27 Question Id: 128206558 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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In Max Weber's classification, modern governments are increasingly dependent on one of the following:

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  1. The divine right of rulers
  2. Skillful manipulation of the ruled
  3. The recognized authority of certain offices of the state
  4. The personal charisma of rulers

Options:

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1282062197. A

1282062198. B

1282062199. C

1282062200. D

Question Number: 28 Question Id: 128206559 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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What does the phrase the 'rule of law' mean?

  1. Everyone is equal in the eyes of the law
  2. The law should be effective enough to keep society in order
  3. Law should reflect the will of the majority
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  5. Lawyers should never be prosecuted

Options:

1282062201. A

Question Number: 29 Question Id: 128206560 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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A key figure in the development of pluralist theory is

  1. C. Wright Mills
  2. Robert Dahl
  3. Roald Dahl
  4. James Burnham
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Options:

1282062205. A

1282062206. B

1282062207. C

1282062208. D

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Question Number: 30 Question Id: 128206561 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Which egalitarian theorist's views would you associate with the idea of auctions, insurance schemes and free market?

  1. John Rawls
  2. Brian Barry
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  4. Ronald Dworkin
  5. Amartya Sen

Options:

1282062209. A

1282062210. B

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1282062211. C

1282062212. D

Question Number: 31 Question Id: 128206562 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Which political theorist uses the example of a basketball player, Wilt Chamberlain, to argue against patterned principles of distributive justice?

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  1. Robert Nozick
  2. John Rawls
  3. Brian Barry
  4. Hannah Arendt

Question Number: 32 Question Id: 128206563 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Which of the following would be associated with Neoliberal politics?

  1. Free markets
  2. Rational individuals
  3. Emphasis on home ownership
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  5. State dirigisme
  1. (i) only
  2. (i) & (ii)
  3. (i), (ii), & (iii)
  4. (i), (ii), (iii) & (iv)
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Options:

1282062217. A

1282062218. B

1282062219. C

1282062220. D

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Question Number: 33 Question Id: 128206564 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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The national traditions, as we understand them, are more often invented than historically evolved. Whom do you think is the proponents of this view?

  1. Ernest Gellner
  2. Elie Kedourie
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  4. Eric Hobsbawm
  5. Etienne Balibar

Options:

1282062221. A

1282062222. B

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1282062223. C

1282062224. D

Question Number: 34 Question Id: 128206565 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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In comparative Politics, the concept of civic culture is used for the study of;

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  1. Popular culture
  2. Behavior of the members of Parliament
  3. Attitudes and participation in democracy
  4. Functioning of bureaucracy.

Options:

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1282062225. A

1282062226. B

1282062227. C

1282062228. D

Question Number: 35 Question Id: 128206566 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Hamza Alavi's analysis of the nature of state in postcolonial societies is based on which of the following countries?

  1. India and Pakistan
  2. Pakistan and Bangladesh
  3. India and Bangladesh
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  5. Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

Options:

1282062229. A

1282062230. B

1282062231. C

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1282062232. D

Question Number: 36 Question Id: 1

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