Deck 5: Political Science and Democracy

Question 1

Who introduced the concept of negative and positive rights?

A)andrew haywood
B)laski
C)john locke
D)barker

Answer 1

andrew haywood

Question 2

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 2

who should get what in society?

Question 3

Equality of opportunity means

A)everybody as equal right to complain
B)everybody finishes the same start in life
C)everybody finishes the same regardless of effort
D)everybody is equal

Answer 3

everybody finishes the same start in life

Question 4

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 5

Who among the following advocated party less democracy in India?

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

Question 6

What did Gandhiji mean by Swaraj?

A)freedom of the country
B)freedom for the meanest of the countrymen
C)self government
D)complete independence

Question 7

Who among the following theorists advocated participatory democracy?

A)c.b. macpherson
B)michael oakeshoot
C)f. a. hayek
D)gaetano mosca

Question 8

Which of the following does not lead to the spread of democracy?

A)struggle by the people
B)end of colonialism
C)invasion by foreign countries
D)people's desire for freedom

Question 9

Participatory democracy calls for:

A)increasing the voter turnout in elections
B)greater and active engagement of citizens in government
C)greater involvement of the legislature in the business of legislature
D)active engagement of the representatives in the affairs of their constituencies

Question 10

The advocates of deliberative democracy emphasize

A)executive supremacy
B)parliamentary sovereignty
C)judicial autonomy
D)popular participation

Question 11

The Communist manifesto was first published in

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

Question 12

According to David Easton, the main function of government is to:

A)provide social order, national security, and public goods
B)guarantee constitutional rights
C)levy tax on people to run the political system
D)allocate authoritatively values for a whole society.

Question 13

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

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

Question 14

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

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

Question 15

Who contributed the work 'the Politics'?

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

Question 16

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 17

Who was the first proponent of scientific study of Politics?

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

Question 18

Who said this , 'behavioural approach is a protest movement within politics science and make the empirical component more rigorous'

A)charles merriam
B)robert a dahl
C)george catlin
D)arthur bentley

Question 19

Eighth principles of the behavioural approach of political science generally known as

A)verifications
B)pure science
C)intellectual foundations
D)observational study

Question 20

Who wrote the book 'Four Essays on Liberty'?

A)herbert spencer
B)earnest barker
C)j s mill
D)isaiah berlin

Question 21

Who was the most ardent advocate of Post Behaviouralism?

A)david easton
B)c wright mills
C)robert dahl
D)harold d lasswell

Question 22

The strong demands of Post behaviouralists are

A)pure science
B)relevance and action
C)value
D)none of these

Question 23

Historical materialism is one of the tools in

A)behaviouralism
B)utilitarianism
C)marxism
D)post behaviouralism

Question 24

Whose work is Lecturers on Jurisprudence"?

A)gilchrist
B)john austin
C)a.v. dicey
D)garner

Question 25

Who wrote the work "Representative Government"?

A)lowell
B)t.h. green
C)j.s. mill
D)laski