Welcome to your Basics of Political Science-2
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Who said, "Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains."?
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys Who said this ?
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If there is no division of powers that government is known as
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Which one of the following was favoured by the 19th century liberalism?
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Who observed statement Historically speaking, the behavioural approach was a protest movement within political science
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In a parliamentary system, the accountability of the Prime Minister to the Lower House is:
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Who among the following Marxist thinkers has been described as 'a genius theoretician'?
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The head of the state under parliamentary form of government enjoys
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Which system of government has a medium level of centralization?
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What communitarian wrote Democracy's Discontents?
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Indirect democracy is otherwise known as
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In political science Studies should be relevant and meaningfull for urgent social problems . It is the demands of ?
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Division of powers between the center and the states is an essential feature of
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Who called Political science as the Master Science ?
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The only basis of the subject of politics is power and that to an integration of all powers – political , economic and ideological . Who made this statement ?
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Francis Fukuyama is a name typically associated with which of the following catchphrases?
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Who wrote Being and Nothingness?
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Which system of government has a high level of centralization?
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Socialist thinkers favour nationalisation of natural resources with a view:
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A constitutional government stands for
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Who was the author of Arthashastra?
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which one of the following offices is found only in a Parliamentary form of Government ?
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Karl Marx is a name oft uttered within the hallowed halls of political science departments throughout the world. Who was Marx's famous writing partner on works such as 'The Communist Manifesto'?
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Which one of the following statements describes a unitary system?
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The most essential feature of Federal Government is
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Which one of the following is the main feature of deliberative democracy?
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According to Locke, the State of Nature was given up because
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What dramatist wrote the philosophy of Existentialism?
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A confederal system involves a great deal of autonomy for member states, including the right of secession. Which of these nation-states claims to be a confederation?
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The Constitution of UNO is called
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Politics is not an exact science". This was said by whom?
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The Head of the State under a parliamentary government.
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Who is the author of the following: "Rousseau was misleading his readers when he located sovereignty in an indeterminate General will"?
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The concept of "Political Decay" is associated with the name of:
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Which one of the following thinkers defended representative democracy against direct democracy?
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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time Who said this ?
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The author of the book History and Class Consciousness?
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The Prime Minister and his Council of Ministers in a Parliamentary form of Government remain in office:
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Structural- functional approach is primarily:
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A system of government where power is concentrated in the hands of the central government is called:
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Which of the following are required to deepen democracy?
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Who wrote an Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ?
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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil, in its worst state, an intolerable one."
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Who said Political science deals with government only ?
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Who first said 'War is the continuation of politics by other means'?
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A form of government in which everyone has a share is
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Who wrote the book Republic?
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This individual composed a lengthy work on the rearing of children, though he abandoned all of his illegitimate children to orphanages
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Who said Politics is the study is the influence and the influential
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In a parliamentary form of government, ministers are appointed by:
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What school of thought ascribes to the notion that there exist as many competing realities as there are individuals, thus absolutes cannot exist
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What infamous philosophical work deals with the allegory of the cave ?
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The rule of law is an effective instrument of:
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Which political thinker is associated with International political theory and bio-politics?
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Which one of the following is not a Weberian classification of outhority?
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Which system of government has a low level of centralization?
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The power to establish an Administrative tribunal for a State is vested in-
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Which one of the following is an essential feature of the presidential system?
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Political science is a discipline
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Who among the following thinkers is connected with the concept of general will?
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Which one of the following governments operates on the principle of collective responsibility ?
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According to Marx, the state come into being to:
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Hobbes has been called an individualist because:
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62 "Nothing against the state, nothing beyond the state, everything within the state" was the political philosophy
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Who defined democracy as Government of the people , by the people for the people ?
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A confederation differs from a federation in so far as
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Who is of the view that the sovereign cannot tax his subjects without their consent?
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Who is the Author of Revolts and Rebellions?
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Who said that the state arose not as the creator of law but as the interpreter and enforcer of custom?
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Who held the view that the 'State is prior to the individual'?
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who is called father of political science ?
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Who advocated the theory of Permanent Revolution ?
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Modern bureaucracies are the best example of organizations based on which kinds authority?
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The idea of co-operative federalism indicates a constitution.
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Local Self-Government is
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The modern democracy is known as
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The pluralists find the historical model of their ideal in
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The evolutionary theory offers a satisfactory explanation of the origin of the state because it is
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who among the following defined politics is the science of who gets , what, when and how?
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As well as being the first European country to grant women universal suffrage, which country had the first female members of parliament?
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Who is the author of the book the Law of the Constitution ?
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The social contract theory has been criticized as bad history , bad logic and bad ethics" who said it ?
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The distinctive features of a constitutional democracy are
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If the constitution is the ultimate sovereign, immediate sovereignty can be ascribed to
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According to John Locke, man is by nature
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Who held that even the worst state is better than the best anarchy?
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Locke laid the philosophical foundation of the theory of-
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Who was the doyen of pluralists from amongst the following?
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Clash of Civilizations' is the catchphrase of which of these political scientists, who also has discussed three 'waves' of democracy in his writings?
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Who were Frank B. Kellogg and Aristide Briand?
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In connection with the formation of state Kinship created a common consciousness common interest and common purpose It is the statement of:
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West Minister Model stands for a particular type of:
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The concept of sovereignty, wherein a nation-state claims sole authority under a given set of laws within its territorial boundaries, is often said to have first been given form under which of these treaties?
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What is the rule of the wealthy known as ?
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In relation to the state government, local government exercises.
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Who wrote End of History ?
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The central point of social contract theory is that the state is:
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The concept of Rule of Law was given by :
