Deck 10: Democracy, Government Forms, and Political Theorists

Question 1

He explained his view of democracy in his work 'Political Main'. His view of democracy is based on what he calls the competitive character of governing elites in modern democracies. He is:

A)Robert Dahl
B)Louis Althusser
C)S.Martin Lipset
D)None of the above

Answer 1

S.Martin Lipset

Question 2

Who among the following condemned democracy as "an aristocracy of black guards"?

A)Henry Maine
B)Lord Bryce
C)Lecky
D)Talleyrand

Answer 2

Talleyrand

Question 3

Which of the following works have been authored by C.B. Mapherson?

A)The Life and Times of Liberal Democracy
B)Demoractic Theory : Essay in Tetrieval
C)The real world of democracy
D)All the above

Answer 3

All the above

Question 4

Who among the following has dubbed Marxism as a totalitarian doctrine?

A)Karl Popper
B)Isaiah Berlin
C)Hannah Arendt
D)Both (a) and (c)

Question 5

Democracy as an ideal can be achieved through:

A)Political Institution
B)Transformation of the mode of production
C)Inclucation of new values of human equality
D)All the above

Question 6

Which of the following is held as a transitional state in Marxian philosophy?

A)Socialist state
B)Liberal democratic state
C)Fascist state
D)Anarchist state

Question 7

In the words of Woodrow Wilson, World War I was fought to make the world safe for:

A)Representative government
B)Liberty
C)Democracy
D)All of the above

Question 8

Who among the following was known to have been of the view that there has been a growing distrust and discontent with politicians and the political method evolved by parliamentary democracy?

A)H.G Wells
B)Harold Laski
C)Abraham Lincoln
D)None of the above

Question 9

Who calls democracy only an experiment in government?

A)Seeley
B)Lowell
C)Lincoln
D)None of the above

Question 10

A democratic state means

A)That the state is organized on democratic lines
B)That democracy is basically organization of state
C)That the community as a whole processes sovereign authority ad maintains ultimate control over affairs
D)All of the above

Question 11

Who described democracy as a government in which everyone has share?

A)Seeley
B)Dicey
C)Wiloughby
D)None of the above

Question 12

Who defines democracy as a form of government in which the government body is a comparatively large fraction of the entire nation?

A)Lincoln
B)Dicey
C)Garner
D)Laski

Question 13

A democratic society is one in which

A)Government is popularly elected
B)Liberty is given the highest value
C)The spirit of equality and fratemity prevails
D)All of the above.

Question 14

Democracy in its narrow sense means

A)Rule by the many
B)A form of government
C)A type of state
D)An order of society

Question 15

Early Greek city states experimented with different forms of Government prominent among them were:

A)Monarchy and Tyranny
B)Aristocracy and Oligarchy
C)Democracy and Monarchy
D)All of the above

Question 16

As a form of government, Aristotle preferred

A)Aristocracy
B)Tyranny
C)Democracy
D)Monarchy

Question 17

A powerful eighteenth century advocate of direct democracy was

A)Rousseau
B)Montesquieu
C)Voltaire
D)Doderot

Question 18

Direct democracy was first practiced in the Greek city states. In the medieval times this type of democracy was revived by

A)Chinese kings
B)Indian states
C)Italian city states
D)All of the above

Question 19

The nearest approach that one finds to direct democracy in some modern states in the form of

A)Referendum
B)Initiative
C)Recall
D)All of the above

Question 20

Which of the following is the work authored by Lord Bryce?

A)Political Science and Government
B)State in Theory and Practice
C)Modern Democracies
D)Democratic Government

Question 21

Which of the following countries practice direct democracy in modern times?

A)Greece
B)Forest Cantons of Switzerland
C)German Lander
D)Both (b) and (c)

Question 22

Who among the following opinion that life is a "perpetual and restless desire for power after power which ceases only in death"?

A)Aristotle
B)Bietzsche
C)Hobbes
D)Lasswell

Question 23

Who among the following is one of the advocates of the power theory in politics ?

A)Catlin
B)Kaplan
C)Lasswell
D)All of the above

Question 24

Who founded the structural functional school in political science ?

A)Apter
B)Coleman
C)Plato
D)Both (a) and (b)

Question 25

Political socialization is the process of induction into the political culture and the psychological dimension of the

A)Socio economic system
B)Political system
C)Economic System
D)Social system