UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT
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SCHOOL OF DISTANCE EDUCATIONI SEMESTER
B.A POLITICAL SCIENCE
(2019 ADMISSION )
CORE COURSE
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FOUNDATION OF POLITICAL SCIENCEQUESTION BANK
- Who defined political science is “that part of social science which treats the foundations of the foundations of the state and principles of government"?
a. Paul Janet;
b. Dyke;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Gettell;
d. None of it - Who is the author of “A History of Political Theory”?
a. Karl Popper;
b. Sabine;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Mill;
d. Locke - Who described historical approach as ‘historicism'?
a. Bentham;
b. Hegel;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Popper;
d. Marx - Which approach is, according to Rober A Dahl, an attempt to make the empirical content of Political Science more scientific "
a. Institutional Approach
b. Historical Approach--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Philosophical Approach
d. Behavioural Approach - Who introduced 'intellectual foundations' for behavioural approach?
a. Easton;
b. Merriam;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Lasswell;
d. Bentley - 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” ?
a. Merriam and Easton
b. Lasswell and Kaplan--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Catlin and Bentley
d. None of them - Who is known as the greatest advocate of Post-Behaviouralism?
a. Merriam;
b. Easton;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Lasswell;
d. Bentley - Which approach demands ‘relevance' and 'action'?
a. Institutional Approach
b. Post-Behaviouralist Approach--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Behaviouralist
d. Historical Approach - Whose definition encompasses the 'politics of consent' as well as the ‘politics of struggle'?
a. Easton;
b. Merriam;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Lasswell;
d. Kaplan - Who introduced 'politics of consent' ?
a. Lasswell;
b. Kaplan;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Popper;
d. Lucian Pie - Which approach featurise “State being the central theme of politics is conceived as an inevitable consequence of class contradictions"?
a. Post-Behaviouralism
b. Marxian Approach--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Behaviouralism
d. Institutional Approach - 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"
a. Lenin;
b. Mao;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Miliband;
d. Engels - The term 'state' is derived from which language?
a. Latin;
b. Greek;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. English;
d. None of it - Who defined “the state is the politically organised people of a definite territory" ?
a. Bluntschli;
b. Wilson;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Machiavelli;
d. Aristotle - Who defined state as “people organised for law within a definite territory?
a. Miliband;
b. Lenin;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Wilson;
d. Mao - Who said, state is a “territorial society divided into government and subjects whose relationships are determined by the exercise of this supreme coercive power” ?
a. Laski;
b. Mao;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Wilson;
d. Marx - ho introduced the “subjective desire of the people"?
a. Willoughby;
b. Hobbes;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Iver;
d. Laski - 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"?
a. Laski;
b. Willoughby;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Lenin;
d. Mac Iver - Who defined an association as “a group organised for the pursuit of an interest or a group of interest in common"?
a. Mao;
b. Iver;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Willoughby;
d. Jellinick - Who said “state is a political instrument a machine for maintaining the rule of one class over another"?
a. Lenin;
b. Popper;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Gettell;
d. Mao - hose treatise, “the origin of the Family, Private Property and the State”?
a. Marx;
b. Engels;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Lenin;
d. Mao - Who is the author of the book 'Ancient Society'?
a. Morgan;
b. Popper;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Maine;
d. Mao - Who wrote ‘The poverty of Philosophy'?
a. Mao;
b. Lenin;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Marx;
d. Engels - Who wrote "State and Revolution"?
a. Engels;
b. Marx;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Mao;
d. Lenin - Who wrote "Anti-Duhring"
a. Engels;
b. Marx;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Lenin;
d. Mao - Who defined sovereignty as the 'the supreme power over citizens and subjects unrestrained by laws'?
a. Garner;
b. Jean Bodin;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Austin;
d. Gilchrist - Who is the exponent of Monistic theory of sovereignty ?
a. Jean Bodin;
b. Garner;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Austin;
d. Maine - Who defined sovereignty is “the sum total of the influences in a state which lie behind the law" ?
a. Austin;
b. Dicey;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Gilchrist;
d. Garner - Who defined sovereignty on the basis of the concept of law as “a command given by a superior to an inferior"
a. Grotius;
b. Hobbes;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Locke;
d. Austin - Who criticise sovereignty does not reside in a determinate human superior ?
a. Hobbes;
b. Austin;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Grotius;
d. Maine - Who said 'Kinship created a common consciousness, common interest and common purpose' ?
a. Gettell;
b. Maine;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. MacIver;
d. Austin - Find the wrong one of this list?
a. Laski;
b. Hobbes;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. MacIver;
d. Lindsay - Who points, because society is federal, authority must also be federal?
a. Maine;
b. MacIver;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Bentham;
d. Laski - Who opined that 'the logical consequence of Pluralism is chaos' ?
a. MacIver;
b. Gilchrist;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Ernest Barker;
d. Laski - Whose work is "Modern State"
a. Laski;
b. Lindsay;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Bodin;
d. MacIver - Who is the author of 'Crisis in the Theory of State' ?
a. Laski;
b. Krabbe;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Barker;
d. MacIver - Who is the great liberal writer of the 17th century ?
a. Austin;
b. Locke;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Gilchrist;
d.None of them - Which is the work of Montesquieu ?
a. Ant-Duhring
b. State and Revolution--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. The Spirit of Laws
d. The poverty of philosophy - Who said, there is no better test of the excellence of a government, than the efficiency of the judicial system'?
a. James Bryce;
b. Laski;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. MacIver;
d. Bentham - Who said "every state is enormously dependent upon the quality of its public officials"?
a. MacIver;
b. Laski;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Dicey;
d. James Bryce - In which case Judicial Review was originated in the United States ?
a. Strader v/s Graham;
b. Sheldon v/s Sill;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Swift v/s Tyson;
d. Marbury v/s Madison - Which Article vide the power of Judicial Review is clearly engrafted into the Constitution of India ?
a. Article 12;
b. Article 13;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Article 14;
d. Article 15 - Which work is written by Dicey?
a. Modern States
b. the History of the States--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Introduction to the Study of Law of the Constitution
d. The Spirit of Laws - Who wrote 'The Process of Government'
a. Arthur Bentley;
b. Graham Wallas;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Charles Merriam;
d. David Easton - Whose work is "Human Nature in Politics"
a. Dicey;
b. Wallas;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Laski;
d. Merriam - Who wrote “New Aspects of Politis"
a. Wallas;
b. Laski;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Merriam;
d. Bentley - Find out the work of Lasswell and Kaplan
a. Systematic Politics
b. The Politics of System--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Power and Society
d. Introduction to Politics - Who wrote "The Political System"
a. Almond;
b. Apter;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Lasswell;
d. Easton - The term 'Historicism' was made popular by
a. Sabine;
b. Oakeshott;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Popper;
d. Foster - 'It is better to be vague than irrelevant'. This statement explains the following
a. Post-behaviouralism;
b. Behaviouralism;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Positivism;
d. Empiricism - The Iron Law of Oligarchy is associated with
a. Millett;
b. Michels;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. McConnell;
d. Mazzini - Who regarded revolution as a means of achieving freedom?
a. Hegel;
b. Dahl;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. John Milton;
d. Karl Marx - Human consciousness postulates liberty, liberty involves rights, rights demand the state, who has made this statement?
a. Hegel;
b. Green;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Laski;
d. Barker - Which factor is necessary for the development of democratic institutions?
a. strong military forces
b. respect for individual rights--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. a one-party system
d. an agricultural economy - Who said "Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” ?
a. Lord Acton
b. David Apter--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. A.V. Dicey
d. Montesquieu - Parliamentary form of government first involved in
a. Greece
b. The United Kingdom--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. The United States
d. Rome - India has adopted Rule of Law on the pattern of
a. Britain
b. Japan--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Britain with certain modifications
d. USA - Who said that Bureaucracy is “a regulated administrative system organized as a series of interrelated offices ?
a. Max Weber;
b. Gladden;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. F.M. Marx;
d. John A. Vieg - The power to decide an election petition is vested in the
a.Parliament;
b. Supreme Court;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. High Courts;
d. Election Commission - Who said, “Revolution is a sweeping fundamental change in the predominant myth of a social order"?
a.G.S. Peter;
b. H Arendt;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Huntington;
d. Neumann - Participation is an important element of every
a.Monarchial System
b. Oligarchical System--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c.Democratic System
d. Aristocratic System - 'If sovereignty is not absolute, no state will exist'. Who said this ?
a.Laski;
b. Locke;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c.Austin;
d. None of the above - According to Marx 'the Dictatorship of the proletariat' signifies ?
a. A transitional state
b. An ideal state--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. An autocratic state
d. A liberal states - Who said 'Neutrality is' one of the strongest bulworks of democracy ?
a. F. M. Marx;
b. Peter Self;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. Ajay Baseli;
d. O. P. Dwivedi - "All administration means domination" who said this
a. Weber;
b. Martin Albrow;--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c. R. K. Merton;
d. Talcot Parsons - Who among the following first developed the concept of general system theory
a.Colin Cherry
b. Ludwig Von Bertallanffy--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c.Robert K Merton
d. Talcott Parsons - Democracy is meaningless without
a.President and Congress
b. Supreme Court and President--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c.A federal form of government
d. Freedom of speech - Structural functionalism as a method was developed to study the politics of
a.Modern totalitarianism
b. Politics of developing countries--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c.Developed socialism
d. Advanced Capitalism - Who wrote "Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign
a.Jeremy Bentham
b. Robert Nozick--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c.M.K. Gandhi
d. J.S. Mill - Gandhi describe himself as a
a. Social democrat
b. Philosophical anarchist--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c.Socialist
d. Liberal - David Easton stated in his work, The Political System, 1953, that two kinds of political inputs are:
a. Voting and impeachment
b. Political action committees and political parties--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c.Demand and support
d. Pressure and bribery - According to Aristotle, democracy is
a.A genuine form of government
b. The same as oligarchy--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c.A perverted form of government
d. The same as polity - Power is the capacity to
a.Persuade
b. Hold sovereignty--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c.Produce intended effects
d. Exercise authority - Authority is the right to
a.Invoke tradition
b. Nationhood--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c.Rule
d. Delegate - Sovereignty refers to
a.Ruling monarchs
b. Ceremonial leaders--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c.Supreme courts
d. The ultimate source of authority in society - Which of the following is the function of political parties?
a. Supervising interest groups
b. Administering elections--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c.Aggregating (combining) interest
d. Negotiating with foreign governments - The assignment of law-making, law-enforcing, and law-interpreting functions to independent branches of the government is called
a.separation of powers
b. checks and balances.--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
c.enumerated powers.
d. implied powers. - According to Almond and Verba, the civil culture
a.Contributes to the stability of liberal democracies
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c.Unconnected to the stability of - Social capital is based on
a.Start up funding for voluntary organisations
b. Widespread acceptance of the market economy
c.Eastern Europe's 'third way'--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. A culture of trust and cooperation - Who introduced hegemony in the concept of civil society?
a. Lenin
b. Gramsci
c.Hegel--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. Marx - Who said ‘civilisation is not a burden, but it is an opportunity?
a.Marx
b. Gandhi
c.Nehru--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. Lenin - The Iron Law of Oligarchy is associated with
a.Michels
b. Millet
c.Bentham--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. Kant - Who wrote the work 'a preface to democratic theory'?
a. Dahl
b. Marx
c.Lenin--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. MacIver - The most essential principle of liberalism is
a.Equality
b. Social justice
c.Democracy--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. Freedom - Who is guild socialist?
a.Green
b. Mill
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d. Dicey - Socialism is:
a.An economic system that is based on private ownership
b. An economic system for communism
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d. A government system that communist countries use - An institution is a form of
a.Organisation
b. Legal system
c.Culture--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. State - Who said Politics is about 'who gets what, when and how'?
a. Lasswell
b. Almond
c.Easton--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. Verba - Social justice is primarily concerned with
a.Who governs society
b. How society is governed
c.How society is defined--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. Who should get what in society - Equality of opportunity means
a.Everybody as equal right to complain
b. Everybody finishes the same start in life
c.Everybody finishes the same regardless of effort--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. Everybody is equal - Which one of the following countries introduced universal adult franchise is one move?
a. Australia.
b. USA
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d. UK - Who among the following argued that universal suffrage does injustice to property owners?
a.J.S. Mill
b. W.F. Willoughby
c.H.J. Laski--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. Henry Maine - Who among the following described democracy as the 'tyranny of the majority?
a.James Madison
b. John Dunning
c.J Rousseau--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. De Tocqueville - Who among the following is not an exponent of 'Elitist Theory of Democracy'?
a.Mosca
b. Pareto
c.Michel--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. C Macpherson - Who among the following advocated partyless democracy in India?
a.Acharya Vinoba Bhave
b. Jayprakash Narayan
c.Mahatma Gandhi--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. M.N. Roy - Who among the following theorists advocated participatory democracy?
a.C.B. Macpherson
b. Michael Oakeshoot
c.F. A. Hayek--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. Gaetano Mosca - Who among the following has described the world wide triumph of liberal democracy as the 'end of history'?
a. Samuel P. Huntington
b. Francis Fukuyama
c.Robert Dahl--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. C. Wright Mills - Who among the following favoured qualification as the basis for right to vote?
a.E. Barker
b. T.H. Green
c.J.S. Mill--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. J. Bentham - Participatory democracy calls for:
a.increasing the voter turnout in elections
b. greater and active engagement of citizens in government
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d. active engagement of the representatives in the affairs of their constituencies - Which is Canada's political system?
a.a confederal state
b. a direct democracy
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d. a parliamentary democracy - Rational-legal authority also known as
a.Confederal
b. Universal
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d. Bureaucratic - "A partyess regime is a conservative regime an anti-party regime is a reactionary regime." Who made this statement?
a.Samuel Huntington
b. Sartori
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d. K.C. Wheare - The advocates of deliberative democracy emphasize
a.executive supremacy
b. parliamentary sovereignty - c.judicial autonomy
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the concept of 'circulation of elites' has been used by
a.Mosca
b. Michels
d. popular participation
c. Weber--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. Pareto - The theory of sovereignty is historically associated with the rise of
a.Democracy
b. Absolute monarchy
c.Feudalism--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. Decolonization - Who among the following, characterized bureaucracy as ration-legal authority ?
a.Max Weber
b. Herbert A. Simon
c. Vilfredo Pareto--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. F.M. Marx - The Communist manifesto was first published in
a. Russian
b. English
c.German--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. French - The International Criminal Court is located at
a. Washington
b. Hague
c.Geneva--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. London - Who among the following has described the world wide triumph of liberal democracy as the end of history?
a.Francis Fukuyama
b. Samuel P. Huntington
c.David Held--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. Samir Amin - The National Parliamentary body of China is known as
a.National People's Congress
b. Supreme Soviet
c.People's Assembly--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. State Council - Which aspect of imperialism does the dependency theory emphasize ?
a.Strategic
b. Political
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d. Economic - According to David Easton, the main function of government is to:
a.provide social order, national security, and public goods.
b. guarantee constitutional rights
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d. allocate authoritatively values for a whole society. - Who was politics is a universal activity?
a.MacIver
b. Robert Dahl
c.Hobbes--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. Plato - The term 'politics' was derived from two words ‘polis' and ‘polity' in which language
a.Greek;
b. Latin;
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d. French - Who defined politics as “the authoritative allocation of values that are binding on the society"
a.John Lock
b. B. J.S. Mill
c.David Easton--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. Almond - Political science is the scientific designation of the subject of study was accepted in which year
a.1948
b. 1950
c.1945--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. 1970 - Who contributed the work 'the Politics'?
a. Aristotle
b. Plato
c.Socrates--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. Machiavelli - The scope of Political Science is determined by the enquiries that arise in connection with the state. Who said so?
a.Gilchrist
b. Almond
c.T.H. Green--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. August Compte - The development of Political Science as a discipline can be traced back to
a.4th century B.C.
b. 3rd century B.C
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d. 6th century B.?. - In the Classical or Normative period, the study of politics reflected
a.a normative concern and deductive method explanation
b. behavioural study of politics
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d. none of these - Who was the first proponent of scientific study of politics?
a.Charles Merriam
b. Harold D Lasswell
c.George Catlin--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. Arthur Bentley - Behavioural approach in Politics Science is an attempt to make the empirical content of Political Science more scientific who said this?
a.Charles Merriam
b. Robert A Dahl
c.George Catlin--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. Arthur Bentley - Eighth principles of the behavioural approach of political science generally known as
a. Verifications
b. Pure science
c.Intellectual foundations--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. Observational study - Politics is "the study of shaping and sharing of power"
a.Charles Merriam
b. Robert A Dahl
c.Harold D Lasswell--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. Arthur Bentley - Politics became “narrow focus, the trivial detail and abstract fact"
a.C Wright Mills
b. Robert A Dahl
c. Harold D Lasswell--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. Arthur Bentley - Who was the most ardent advocate of Post Bahaviouralism?
a.David Easton
b. C Wright Mills
c.Robert Dahl--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. Harold D Lasswell - The strong demands of Post behaviouralists are
a. Pure science
b. Relevance and action
c.Value--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. None of these - Historical materialism is one of the tools in
a. Behaviouralism
b. Utilitarianism
c. Marxism--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
d. Post behaviouralism - It 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 . who said this?
a.David Easton
b. C Wright Mills - c.Robert A Dahl
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Who said the state is the politically organised people of a definite territory?
a.J.K. Bluntschli
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