Deck 4: Political Science and Government Systems

Question 1

An institution is a form of

A)organisation
B)legal system
C)culture
D)state

Answer 1

organisation

Question 2

Who said Politics is about 'who gets what, when and how'?

A)lasswell
B)almond
C)easton
D)verba

Answer 2

lasswell

Question 3

Social justice is primarily concerned with

A)who governs society
B)how society is governed
C)how society is defined
D)who should get what in society

Answer 3

who should get what in society

Question 4

Which one of the following country follows unitary form of government?

A)australia.
B)usa
C)india
D)uk

Question 5

Who among the following described democracy as the 'tyranny of the majority?

A)james madison
B)john dunning
C)j rousseau
D)de tocqueville

Question 6

Who among the following is not an exponent of 'Elitist Theory of Democracy'?

A)mosca
B)pareto
C)michel
D)c macpherson

Question 7

Who among the following advocated partyless democracy in India?

A)acharya vinoba bhave
B)jayprakash narayan
C)mahatma gandhi
D)m.n. roy

Question 8

Who among the following has described the world wide triumph of liberal democracy as the 'end of history'?

A)samuel p. huntington
B)francis fukuyama
C)robert dahl
D)c. wright mills

Question 9

Who among the following favoured qualification as the basis for right to vote?

A)e. barker
B)t.h. green
C)j.s. mill
D)j. bentham

Question 10

Which is Canada's political system?

A)a confederal state
B)a direct democracy
C)a unitary stated.
D)parliamentary

Question 11

Rational-legal authority also known as

A)confederal
B)universal
C)democratic
D)bureaucratic

Question 12

the concept of 'circulation of elites' has been used by

A)mosca
B)michels
C)weber
D)pareto

Question 13

Who among the following, characterized bureaucracy as ration-legal authority ?

A)max weber
B)herbert a. simon
C)vilfredo pareto
D)f.m. marx

Question 14

The Communist manifesto was first published in

A)russian
B)english
C)german
D)french

Question 15

Who among the following has described the world wide triumph of liberal democracy as the end of history ?

A)francis fukuyama
B)samuel p. huntington
C)david held
D)samir amin

Question 16

The National Parliamentary body of China is known as

A)national people's congress
B)supreme soviet
C)people's assembly
D)state council

Question 17

Which aspect of imperialism does the dependency theory emphasize ?

A)strategic
B)political
C)cultural
D)economic

Question 18

Who was acknowledging politics is a universal activity?

A)maciver
B)robert dahl
C)hobbes
D)plato

Question 19

The term 'politics' was derived from two words 'polis' and 'polity' in which language

A)greek;
B)latin;
C)english;
D)french

Question 20

Who defined politics as "the authoritative allocation of values that are binding on the society"

A)john lock b.
B)j.s. mill
C)david easton
D)almond

Question 21

Political science is the scientific designation of the subject of study was accepted in which year

A)1948
B)1950
C)1945
D)1970

Question 22

Who contributed the work 'the Politics'?

A)aristotle
B)plato
C)socrates
D)machiavelli

Question 23

The development of Political Science as a discipline can be traced back to

A)4th century b.c
B) 3rd century b.c
C)5th century b.c
D)6th century b.c.

Question 24

Who was the first proponent of scientific study of politics?

A)charles merriam
B)harold d lasswell
C)george catlin
D)arthur bentley