Deck 11: Foundations and Concepts of Political Science

Question 1

Who defines the political system as the "institutions, processes and interactions throug which values are authoritatively allocated in a society?

A)Almond
B)Easton
C)Apter
D)Pye

Answer 1

Easton

Question 2

Who said that politics is concerned with the authoritative 'allocation of values' for a society?

A)B. Miller
B)David Easton
C)Alan Ball
D)Ernest Benn

Answer 2

David Easton

Question 3

Which of the following is one of the traditionally recognized organs of power in a state?

A)Legislature
B)Executive
C)Judiciary
D)All of the above

Answer 3

Judiciary

Question 4

The 'power theory' finds its brilliant manifestation in the political philosophy of

A)Locke
B)Hobbes
C)Mill
D)Rousseau

Question 5

Which of the following are not the basic of the authority of society?

A)Social customs
B)Conventions
C)Laws
D)Moral pressure

Question 6

The subject that deals with man in relation to the State and Government is called

A)Economics
B)History
C)Political Science
D)Psychology

Question 7

________________is the central subject of the study of political science.

A)Population
B)State
C)Behaviour
D)Mass Communication

Question 8

Who defines Political Science as that part of social science which treats the foundations of the State and the principles of Government?

A)Prof.Harold Laski
B)Lasswell
C)Garner
D)Paul Janet

Question 9

Bluntschli restricted the scope of Political Science to

A)The study of government and politics
B)The study of State and Government
C)The study of Government
D)The study of State

Question 10

Prof. Harold Laski emphasized the scope of Political Science to include the study of

A)State and sovereignty
B)Government and politics
C)State and Government
D)Government only

Question 11

Who said that State comes into existence originating in the bare needs of life of man and continuing in existence for the sake of good life?

A)Plato
B)Socrates
C)Aristotle
D)Montesqueau

Question 12

_______________is the most important agency of the State

A)Press
B)Judiciary
C)Sovereignty
D)Government

Question 13

The concept of 'politics' originated in ancient

A)Athens
B)Sparta
C)Greece
D)Spain

Question 14

Politics is a struggle for power on three levels

A)Society, state and family
B)State, inter-state and intra-state
C)Family, society and political groups
D)Nation, state and districts

Question 15

David Easton defined politics as authoritative allocation of

A)Power
B)Influences
C)Interests
D)Values

Question 16

A policy is authoritative when there __________to the authority

A)Willing compliance
B)Forceful compliance
C)Resistance
D)None of the above

Question 17

The central idea of sovereignty is

A)Power
B)Law
C)Authority
D)Legitimacy

Question 18

The main characteristics of a civil society are organization, interaction, communication and

A)Friendship
B)Interdependence
C)Solidarity
D)Goodwill

Question 19

Who among the following defined democracy as "the government of the people, for the peop0le and by the people"?

A)Maclver
B)Aristotle
C)Abraham Lincoln
D)Napoleon

Question 20

Which of the following is not a method of democratic participation?

A)Voting
B)Campaigning in the election
C)Contesting the election
D)Listening the election speeches

Question 21

The success of democracy depends upon

A)Popular education
B)Faith in certain fundamental democratic principles
C)Social equality
D)All of the above

Question 22

Who wrote the book Considerations on Representative Government?

A)Hobbes
B)Locke
C)Rousseau
D)J.S. Mill

Question 23

Which of the following is a permanent feature of a representative form of government?

A)Voting
B)Decision-making
C)Military force
D)None of the above

Question 24

Contribute towards the success of democracy?

A)Education
B)Participation
C)Political parties
D)Overpopulation

Question 25

Hobbes idea of civil society is the area where in the liberty of the subject lies in

A)The liberty to buy and sell and otherwise contract with one another
B)The liberty to choose their own abode
C)The liberty to choose their own trade of life
D)All of the above