Deck 8: Political Science and Psychology

Question 1

Who among the following pioneered the integration of the study of political science with psychology?

A)S.M.Lipset
B)Walter Bagehot
C)Eric Voeghin
D)Harold Laski

Answer 1

Walter Bagehot

Question 2

Who among the following advocated that the central idea of the political science is power?

A)David Apter
B)Amos
C)Max weber
D)Runciman

Answer 2

Max weber

Question 3

Harold Lasswell's "Politics: Who Gets, What, when and How" discusses:

A)Distributive justice
B)Scientific method and value-relativism
C)Social implications of political participation
D)Fundamentals of political participation

Answer 3

Scientific method and value-relativism

Question 4

Who among the following employed a biological method in the study of politics?

A)Lord action
B)Milton
C)T.H Green
D)Herbert Spencer

Question 5

The work 'Power and Society' is co-authored by :

A)Greenstein, Polsby and Nelson
B)Rieselbach and Balds
C)Girth and Mills
D)Harold Lasswell and Abraham Kaplan

Question 6

The keynote of liberalism is _________

A)Individual
B)Liberty
C)Liberty of the individual
D)Personality

Question 7

The famous 'fourfold functional analysis' of the social systems is made by

A)Gabriel Almond
B)Sidney Verba
C)James Coleman
D)Talcott Parsons

Question 8

A scientific sociological evaluation of the state has been discussed by:

A)Maclver in the Modern state
B)Engels in Anti-Duhring
C)Maclver in the Web of Government
D)Engels in The origin of the family, private property and the state

Question 9

Jurisprudence is

A)Law
B)History of law
C)Anthology on law
D)Science of law

Question 10

The work 'Political Science: A philosophical Analysis' is authored by:

A)Oran Young
B)Herbert Storing
C)Vermon van Dyke
D)Leo strauss

Question 11

Which of the following works have nsote been authored by R.M. MacIver?

A)The Web of Government
B)Society: its structure and changes
C)The Modern State
D)An introduction to Politics

Question 12

Which of the following have been authored by RobertDahl?

A)A preface to Democratic theory
B)Politic science - The discipline and its dimensions
C)Modern political analysis
D)Both (a) and (c)

Question 13

In Marxist theory, society is divided into dominant and dependent classes and the former controls the state which is an embodiment of:

A)Political Power
B)Economic Power
C)Social Power
D)None of the above

Question 14

Who opined that it was in small states that democracy first arose?

A)Lord Bryee
B)Lord Action
C)Lord Hewart
D)None of the above

Question 15

The chief proponents of the theory of natural rights are

A)John Locke and Thomas Paine
B)Lasswell and Kant
C)Hegel and Kant
D)Durkheim and Weber

Question 16

Which of the following theories is the one opposed to the theory of natural rights?

A)Personality theory of rights
B)Historical theory of rights
C)Legal theory of right
D)social expediency theory of rights

Question 17

The historical theory of rights can be summed up in the sentence:

A)History makes right
B)What is right is historical
C)History of the child of right
D)History and right are antithetical

Question 18

In connection with rights, Bentham and Mill expressly advocate the principle of utility in opposition to :

A)Conventions and traditions
B)Merely following customs and appealing to the arbitrary voice of nature
C)Law and rules
D)Principles of jurisprudence

Question 19

Who among the following laid down an elaborate defiance of personal liberty?

A)Rawls
B)Poulantzas
C)Robert Michels
D)John Stuar Mill

Question 20

Civil liberty stands for :

A)Freedom to pursure one's desire
B)Freedom to exercise discretion in one's own domain
C)Liberty to mass wealth
D)Liberty to free action and immunity from interference

Question 21

Who among the following held the view that liberty and equality are opposed to each other?
1)J.S Mill
2) Lord Hewart
3) De Tocqueville
4) Lord Acton

A)Only 2
B)Only 3
C)3 and 4
D)Only 4

Question 22

"----- Who opines that freedom exists only because there is restraint"

A)Dicey
B)Seeley
C)Bryce
D)Willoughby

Question 23

"Man is free when he obey's the law of impulse for self -perfection" - Green in the above statement Thomas Hill Green upholds which of the following ideas of freedom?

A)Personal freedom
B)Moral freedom
C)National freedom
D)Constitutional freedom

Question 24

Democracy in Crisis 3. Democracy in Crisis 28. The author of Anarchy, State and Utopia is

A)F.A. Hayek
B)C.B. Macpherson
C)Robert Nozick
D)Neitzsche

Question 25

The idea of joining or fitting' is implied in the concept of

A)Liberty
B)Equality
C)Property
D)Justice