Deck 6: Political Participation and Pressure Groups

Question 1

What type of activities refers to attending a political meeting or a rally, making momentary contributions or contracting a public officer?

A)Gladiatorial activities
B)Transitional activities
C)Spectator activities
D)Apathetic activities

Answer 1

Transitional activities

Question 2

What type of activities refers to when one tries to influence another into voting in favor of a certain person or party, thus initiating a political discussion?

A)Gladiatorial activities
B)Transitional activities
C)Spectator activities
D)Apathetic activities

Answer 2

Spectator activities

Question 3

Consider the following statements about the characteristics of Political participation:
(i) Political participation is not just mere interest in politics
(ii) It is something voluntary
(iii) It concerns activities in governments and politics and not any particular phase and any specific level or area of governance.
(iv) Participation is directly related to the quality of democracy.
Which of the above statements is/are true?

A)(i), (iii) and (iv)
B)(ii), (iii) and (iv)
C)(i), (ii) and (iv)
D)(i), (ii), (iii) and (iv)

Answer 3

(i), (ii), (iii) and (iv)

Question 4

A: The dominant model of Political participation is Civic Voluntarism by Verba which is based on the socio-economic model of participation.
B: According to this proponents, people who are better educated and more affluent belonging to not below the middle class are likely to be participants.

A)Both A and B are true and B is the correct explanation of A
B)Both A and B are true and B is not the correct explanation of A
C)A is true, but B is false
D)A is false, but R is true

Question 5

A: all forms of participation are not considered to be political participation
B: Only when an action is intended to influence the decision making of the government, it may be called political participation.

A)A is true, but B is false
B)A is false, but B is true
C)Both A and B are true
D)Both A and B are false

Question 6

A: Almond and Verba believe that the study of political participation is an extension to the study of political socialization.
B: According to them, political socialization is a process referring to a certain phase of citizen behavior which forces them to get precluded in the political system of the state.

A)A is true, but B is false
B)A is false, but B is true
C)Both A and B are true
D)Both A and B are false

Question 7

Political participation classified in terms of purpose is of two types. What are they?

A)Instrumental and expressive
B)Instrumental and spectator
C)Spectator and expressive
D)Spectator and transitional

Question 8

Parties classified on the basis of rigidity are of two types. What are they?

A)Instrumental and expressive
B)Pragmatic and ideological
C)Cell and militia
D)Branch and caucus

Question 9

What type of parties seeks to accommodate as many groups as possible in order to
Win an electoral majority?

A)Pragmatic
B)Ideological
C)Instrumental
D)Expressive

Question 10

In which country did the pressure group originated?

A)England
B)U.S.A.
C)France
D)U.S.S.R.

Question 11

Who was the first to use the term 'Pressure Group' in his book?

A)Earl Latham
B)David Truman
C)Peter Odegard
D)Theodore J Lowi

Question 12

An understanding of group theory relies on illustrations rendered by three schools. They are:

A)Pluralist School, Corporatist School and the New Right School
B)Pluralist School, Functionalist School and Marxist School
C)Pluralist School, Functionalist School and the New Right School
D)Pluralist School, Marxist School and the New Right School

Question 13

Which school denounced the idea of state as a monolithic entity, on the contrary
Viewed political power as fragmented and wisely dispersed?

A)Corporatist school
B)The New Right School
C)Marxist School
D)Pluralist School

Question 14

Which school seeks to identify the interaction between group and state in industrialized society?

A)Corporatist school
B)The New Right School
C)Marxist School
D)Pluralist School

Question 15

Which school focuses on the preponderance of pressure groups in society?

A)Corporatist school
B)The New Right School
C)Marxist School
D)Pluralist School

Question 16

Scholars identify three major typologies of pressure groups on the basis of

A)Interest content, organizational form and type of membership
B)Interest content, organizational form and protection
C)Interest content, demands and protection
D)Interest content, demands and type of membership

Question 17

Which of the following is not included in Olson classification of groups?

A)Small
B)Intermediate
C)Large
D)Anomic

Question 18

What type of groups is seen to use militant and violent means?

A)Anomic interest groups
B)Non associational groups
C)Institutional interest group
D)Associational interest group

Question 19

What type of group is formed on the basis of adherence to certain traditional norms or norms grown out of religious, regional, racial and ethnic loyalties?

A)Anomic interest groups
B)Non associational groups
C)Institutional interest group
D)Associational interest group

Question 20

What type of group operates within the framework of formal institution like political
Parties?

A)Anomic interest groups
B)Non associational groups
C)Institutional interest group
D)Associational interest group

Question 21

What type of groups have manifested structural base?

A)Anomic interest groups
B)Non associational groups
C)Institutional interest group
D)Associational interest group

Question 22

A pressure group is :

A)A group formed to protect the interests of members of a group by contesting elections
B)A group of people who tries to capture power with the help of money
C)A group of people with common objectives, which tries to promote the interest of its members by influencing the government policies
D)A military group, which comes to the assistance of the state when the police force is unable to maintain law and order

Question 23

Which of the following is not an example of associational interest group?

A)Trade unions
B)Ethnic association
C)Businessman
D)Skill groups

Question 24

Pressure groups differ from political parties in so far as

A)They contest elections
B)They have large membership
C)They pursue broader objectives
D)Their field of operation is very limited

Question 25

Which of the following is not an example of anomic interest group?

A)Dal Khalsa
B)Naxalite Groups
C)Tamil Sangh
D)Nava Nirman Samithi of Gujarat

Question 26

Which of the following is not a method used by the pressure group for achieving its objectives?

A)It finances political parties
B)It organizes demonstrations
C)It clearly aligns with a political party
D)It tries to influence policy makers

Question 27

Which of the following is not a feature of pressure group?

A)It tries to influence from outside
B)Its membership is large
C)It actively joins political parties
D)Its member can join any number of groups

Question 28

Which one of the following was the first country-wide pressure group of the organized Indian working class?

A)All India Trade union Congress
B)Indian National Trade union Congress
C)United Trade Union Congress
D)Hind Mazdoor Sabha

Question 29

In which of the following countries the pressure groups are not permitted to function?

A)Britain
B)Switzerland
C)U.S.S.R.
D)None of the above