Deck 3: Participation: Governance and Political Theory

Question 1

Which factor is necessary for the development of democratic institutions?

A)strong military forces
B)respect for individual rights
C)a one-party system
D)an agricultural economy

Answer 1

respect for individual rights

Question 2

Who said "Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely." ?

A)lord acton
B)david apter
C)a.v. dicey
D)montesquieu

Answer 2

lord acton

Question 3

Parliamentary form of government first evolved in

A)greece
B)the united kingdom
C)the united states
D)rome

Answer 3

the united kingdom

Question 4

Who said that Bureaucracy is "a regulated administrative system organized as a series of Inter related offices ?

A)max weber;
B)gladden;
C)f.m. marx;
D)john a. vieg

Question 5

The power to decide an election petition is vested in the

A)parliament;
B)supreme court;
C)high courts;
D)election commission

Question 6

Who said, "Revolution is a sweeping fundamental change in the predominant myth of a social order"?

A)g.s. peter;
B)h arendt;
C)huntington;
D)neumann

Question 7

Participation is an important element of every

A)monarchial system
B)oligarchical system
C)democratic system
D)aristocratic system

Question 8

'If sovereignty is not absolute, no state will exist'. Who said this ?

A)laski;
B)locke;
C)austin;
D)none of the above

Question 9

According to Marx 'the Dictatorship of the proletariat' signifies ?

A)a transitional state
B)an ideal state
C)an autocratic state
D)a liberal states

Question 10

Who said 'Neutrality is' one of the strongest bulwarks of democracy ?

A)f. m. marx;
B)peter self;
C)ajay baseli;
D)o. p. dwivedi

Question 11

"All administration means domination" who said this ?

A)weber;
B)martin albrow;
C)r. k. merton;
D)talcot parsons

Question 12

Who among the following first developed the concept of general system theory

A)colin cherry
B)ludwig von bertallanffy
C)robert k merton
D)talcott parsons

Question 13

Democracy is meaningless without

A)president and congress
B)supreme court and president
C)a federal form of government
D)freedom of speech

Question 14

Structural functionalism as a method was developed to study the politics of

A)modern totalitarianism
B)politics of developing countries
C)developed socialism
D)advanced capitalism

Question 15

Who wrote "Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign 70. Gandhi describe himself as a

A)social democrat
B)philosophical anarchist
C)socialist
D)liberal

Question 16

According to Aristotle, democracy is

A)a genuine form of government
B)the same as oligarchy
C)a perverted form of government
D)the same as polity

Question 17

Power is the capacity to

A)persuade
B)hold sovereignty
C)produce intended effects
D)exercise authority

Question 18

Authority is the right to

A)invoke tradition
B)nationhood
C)rule
D)delegate

Question 19

Sovereignty refers to

A)ruling monarchs
B)ceremonial leaders
C)supreme courts
D)the ultimate source of authority

Question 20

Which of the following is the function of political parties?

A)supervising interest groups
B)administering elections
C)aggregating (combining) interest
D)negotiating with foreign governments

Question 21

Who introduced hegemony in the concept of civil society?

A)lenin
B)gramsci
C)hegel
D)marx

Question 22

Who said 'civilisation is not a burden, but it is an opportunity?

A)marx
B)gandhi
C)nehru
D)lenin

Question 23

The Iron Law of Oligarchy is associated with

A)michels
B)millet
C)bentham
D)kant

Question 24

Who wrote the work 'a preface to democratic theory'?

A)dahl
B)marx
C)lenin
D)maciver

Question 25

The most essential principle of liberalism is

A)equality
B)social justice
C)democracy
D)freedom