2012 June UGC NET Examination in Political Science, Paper II: Previous Years

Solved Question Paper Along With Answer Keys

1) Which of the following book is not authored by Karl Marx? Science of Logic
2) Which of the following book is authored by Karl Marx?
1. German Ideology
2. Critique of the Gotha Programme
3. Paris Manuscripts
3) Who wrote Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is
sovereign? John Stuart Mill
4) Rajni Kotharis book Politics in India is written on the basis of the methodology
of Structural functionalism
5) Who is the first modern political thinker who deliberately ignores Aristotle?
Hobbes
6) Gandhi described himself as a Philosophical Anarchist
7) The doctrine of overlapping consensus is advocated by Rawls
8) Who among the following first developed the concept of general systems theory?
Ludwig Von Bertallanfy
9) Structural functionalism as a method was developed to study the politics of
Politics of developing countries
10) C. Wright Mills The Power Elite is a study of the contemporary politics of The
United States of America
11) Who among the following identified the crises in political development on the
basis of his study of England? Lucian W. Pye
12) Who among the following postulated the law officials make work for each
other? N. Parkinson
13) Michels Iron law of oligarchy was formulated on the basis of the study of
German Social Democratic Party
14) Montesquieus theory of separation of powers emphasises primarily on Liberty
15) Which one of the following was not associated with the Hindustan Republic
Association? Aurobindo Ghosh

16) Who was associated with the Hindustan Republic Association?

1. Chandrashekhar Azad
2. Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee
3. Bhagat Singh
17) Who gave the Indian National Congress the Constitution and made it a mass and
cadre party? M.K. Gandhi
18) Who appoints the Inter-State Council? The President of India
19) Which amendment of the Constitution of India limits the number of Ministers?
91st Amendment
20) Which one of the following committees is not associated with Panchayati Raj in
India? Dinesh Goswami Committee
21) Which of the following committees is associated with Panchayati Raj in India?
1. Sadiq Ali Committee
2. L.M. Singhvi Committee and
3. P.K. Thungan Committee
22) Who of the following constituted an oligrachy within the Constituent Assembly of
India? Nehru, Patel, Prasad, Azad
23) Who describes Indian economy as Bullock Cart Capitalism?

Lloyd and

Sussane Rudolph
24) Who among the following defines Public Administration as the activities of the
Executive Branches of the National, State and Local Government.? Herbert A.
Simon
25) Span of Control is also known as Military Type of Foreman
26) The word Bureaucracy was first coined by Vincent de Gournay
27) The Informal Channel of Communication is also known as Grapevine
28) Who stated that Budget is a series of Goals with price tags attached?
Wildavsky
29) Which of the following is not the basic principle of Hans J. Morgenthous
realism? Politics is governed by Universal moral values
30) Marshall Plan was meant for Rebuilding Western European economics

31) Russia has been given permanent seat on the UN Security Council by virtue of its
being Successor State to the former Soviet Union
32) The major argument of Neo-realism of Kenneth Waltz is that Structures are
more important than actors
33) Non-reciprocity principle of Indias policy towards neighbouring countries
envisages Efforts for improving ties with the neighbouring countries without
reciprocity
34) 14th SAARC Summit held in New Delhi in 2007, stressed Improving intraregional connectivity
35) Collective Security System of the UN is based on the principle of All for one, one
for all
36) Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given
below:
1. Dictatorship of the proletariat-----Marx
2. Communist Party-----Lenin
3. Hegemony-----Gramsci
4. Polycentricism-----Togliatti
37) Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given
below:
1. Twentieth century Jacobinism-----M.N. Roy
2. Voluntary Poverty-----Gandhi
3. I was born a Hindu but will not die as one-----Ambedkar
4. Integrated theory of evolution-----Aurobindo
38) Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
1. C.W. Mills the Power Elite
2. T.B. Bottomore Elites and Society
3. Pareto the Ruling Class
4. Ortega Y Gasset the Revolt of the Masses
39) Identify the States whose State Assemblies are meet at places other than the State
capital: Jammu-Kashmir and Maharashtra

40) Which of the following pairs is not correct?

1. U.S.A. Double citizenship
2. India Procedure established by law
3. Australia Unitary form of Government
4. Switzerland Plural Executive
41) Who describes Indian economy as Bullock Cart Capitalism? Lloyd and
Sussane Rudolph
42) Which one of the following is the correct function of Staff Agency? Advising the
Chief Executive
43) Which one of the following statements is not correct with regard to Riggs
Perspective of Societies? Ascriptive values are found in diffracted societies.
44) Which one of the following articles of the Constitution empowers Parliament to
create an All India Service? Article 312
45) Which of the following resulted from Bretton Woods Conference? World Bank
and IMF
46) What is the correct chronological order of the developments listed below?
1. Cuban Missile Crises
2. Indo-Soviet Treaty of Friendship
3. Indias first Nuclear Explosion at Pokhran
4. Adoption of structural adjustment programme of India
47) Match the thinkers with the concepts: Thinker Concept
1. F.W. Taylor----- Incentive system
2. Chester Bernard----- Zone of Acceptance
3. Henry Fayol----- Scalar
4. Frederic Herzberg----- Dissatisfier
48) Identify the correct sequence in which the following Deputy Prime Ministers were
appointed in India?
1. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
2. Morarji Desai
3. Ch. Charan Singh
4. Morarji Desai

49) Public Accounts Committee has the following Members. Tick the correct answer:
Lok Sabha
15

Rajya Sabha

Total

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2012 December UGC NET Examination in Political Science, Paper II: Previous
Years Solved Question Paper Along With Answer Keys
1) Who described Indian Politics as Politics of Scarcity? Myron Weiner
2) In Hegels notion the highest possible achievement of Mind as expressed in social
life was in The Contemporary Prussian State
3) Machiavelli advised the Prince to pursue Moderate behaviour
4) Which Congress President during British Raj initiated the idea of a Planning
Commission? Subhas Chandra Bose
5) Which of the following statements are correct about Indian Government?
1. A member of Rajya Sabha must be a resident of the State from
which he is elected.
2. Number of seats allotted to a State has to be proportionate to
its population.
3. The term of a member of Rajya Sabha is same as that of
Senator in the US.
6) Who prefers to characterize the Indian federalism as bargaining federalism?
Morris Jones
7) Who was the Chairman of Mandal Commission? B.P. Mandal
8) When was the Inter-State Council set up in India? 1990s
9) Who said, Successful Management involves Management by Objectives? Peter
F. Drucker
10) The dictum, Imperialism is the highest stage of Capitalism was propounded by
V.I. Lenin
11) Hans Blix was head of U.N. body for Inspecting places in Iraq for verification
of Weapons of Mass Destruction
12) Nagorno Karabakh is a disputed territory between Armenia and Azerbaizan
13) In which book of the following, Robert Dahl explained the Theory of Decision
Making? Who Governs?
14) Which Committee recommended Unified Grading Structure for the British
Civil Service? Fulton

15) In the post Soviet era Russias outlook at global level is marked by Pragmatic
de-ideologised worldview
16) Who of the following has coined the term under-development? Emmanual
Wallerstein
17) The policy of containment formulated by the U.S. aimed at Checking globally
the influence of the Soviet Union.
18) The Kyoto Protocol of 1997 adopted the programme for Reducing greenhouse
emissions
19) The principle of reciprocity within WTO framework envisages Lowering of
trade barriers by a State to be matched in return
20) Jacksonian Theory is also called Spoils system
21) Which of the four major issues of Public Administration were debated in the
Minnowbrooke Conference, 1968? Relevance, values, equity and change
22) The concept of Informal Organisation was profounded by Elton Mayo
23) Clect is the sub-system of Riggs Prismatic society Social system
24) The Book Introduction to Public Administration was authored by Leonard D.
White
25) Which one of the following Acts/Reports created the Federal Court in India?
Government of India Act, 1935
26) When were the Lok Sabha rules amended to provide for Department Related
Parliamentary Standing Committees? 1989
27) Who of the following was the first Satyagrahi of the Individual Civil
Disobedience Movement started by Gandhiji in October 1940? Acharya Vinoba
Bhave
28) Which is not a part of Rawls well ordered society? Equal
29) Which is the part of Rawls well ordered society?
1. Stable,
2. Efficient
3. Just
30) Who among the following wrote, Laws are the rules of just and unjust; nothing
being reputed unjust that is not contrary to some law? Thomas Hobbes
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31) The operational part of the general systems theory in social sciences has been
developed first in Anthropology
32) Who said, Functionalism can indeed be interpreted as a conscious alternative to
Marxism? W.G. Runciman
33) The concept of civic culture developed out of a survey of U.S.A., U.K., Mexico,
Germany and Italy.
34) Unequal exchange is the formulation of Samir Amin
35) Which one of the following is not a feature of F.M. Marxs guardian bureaucracy?
Corrupt
36) Which one of the following is a feature of F.M. Marxs guardian bureaucracy?
1. Custodian of Public interest
2. Competent
3. Authoritarian
37) Which of the following Committee was appointed by the Government of India to
Identify the creamy layer among Backward Classes in India? Justice Ram
Nandan Committee
38) Arrange the following works of Rousseau chronologically, using the codes given
below:
1. A Discourse on the Arts and Sciences
2. A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
3. Emile
4. The Social Contract
39) Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given
below:
1. On Liberty-----J.S. Mill
2. Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation-----T.H. Green
3. Idea of Justice-----AmartyaSen
4. Anarchy, Stateand Utopia-----Robert Nozick

40) Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given
below:
1. Justice as one person, one duty, one class one work-----Plato
2. Justice as fairness-----Rawls
3. Justice as proportionate equality-----Aristotle
4. Justice as the interest of the strong-----Thrasymachas
41) Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given
below:
1. Perpetual peace-----Kant
2. Golden Mean-----Aristotle
3. Analogy of the cave-----Plato
4. Fortune as a woman-----Machiavelli
42) Who among the following stated that a developing society in order to reach the
goals of development would have to pass through the stages of political
unification, industrialization, national welfare and abundance? Organski
43) Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
1. Lucian Pye: Modernisation Theory
2. Wallerstein: World System Theory
3. Theda Skocpol: New Institutionalism
4. Karl Deutsch: Communications Theory
44) Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
1. Pareto: The concept of residues
2. Michels: The concept of mass mind
3. Mills: The concept of political formula
4. Gasset: The theory of the masses
45) Duvergers classification of the party system is derived from the experience of
political parties in Western Europe
46) Which of the following statements are correct about the President of America?
1. He is the head of the State and also the head of the Government.
2. All executive powers are vested in him.

47) Match the following:

The Office of Ombudsman was set up in these countries in the following years:
1. Sweden-----1809
2. Finland-----1919
3. New Zealand-----1962
4. United Kingdom-----1967
48) Match List I with List II and select correct answer from the codes given
below:
1. Morton Kaplan-----Systems Theory
2. Andre Gunder Frank-----Dependency Theory
3. Hans J. Morgenthau-----Theory of Realism
4. Mikhail Gorbachev-----Perestroika and Glasnost
49) What is the correct chronological order of the events listed below?
1. U.S. Policy of Containment of the Soviet Union.
2. Iran-Iraq War.
3. Dissolution of the former Soviet Union.
4. US War on terrorism in Afghanistan.

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2013 June UGC NET Examination in Political Science, Paper II: Previous Years
Solved Question Paper Along With Answer Keys
1) What constitutes the mean in Aristotles social structure? Middle class
2) Whom did Machiavelli blame for the moral degradation of Italy? The Church
3) For Hegel which one of the following is correct?
1. Family is the thesis, Bourgeois society is the anti-thesis and the State
represents synthesis.
2. The rational is real and the real is rational.
3. Contradictions are not obstacles preventing us reaching truth.
4. All of the above
4) Who among the following criticized Benthams Philosophy as Pig Philosophy?
Carlyle
5) Which of the following is correct so far as John Rawls writings are concerned?
1. A theory of Justice
2. Political Liberalism
3. The Law of Peoples
6) Which one of the following Mao has not said? Atom bombs is real tigers
7) Which one of the following Mao has said?
1. Political power grows out of barrel of gun
2. Three years of hard work: ten thousand years of happiness
3. A revolution is not a dinner party
8) Which one among the following statements is true? Post-behaviouralism
consists of seven tenets
9) Identify the correct sequence of the Platos four components of virtue: Wisdom,
Courage, Temperance and Justice
10) Notion of uneven development was a response to the 19th century ideas of
Capitalism
11) Who among the following is associated with Institutional Approach? James
Bryce
12) Who among the following challenged the idea of political development as a
unilinear process? Huntington
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13) What is Cultural Dualism? A small elite is modernized while the vast
majority remains in rigid ascriptive patterns of tradition.
14) The classical theory of administration is also known as Mechanistic theory
15) Paretos description of elites as speculators and rentiers resembles the
characterisation of governing cliques of Marx
16) The difference between order and disorder is more important than the difference
between communism and liberal democracy is advocated by Huntington
17) Dharamsala model of Indian capitalism was propounded by Raj Krishna
18) The 1963 Kamraj Plan was initiated by Nehru To revive Congress party
commitments
19) The theory of Prismatic Society is based on Structural-functional analysis of
public administration in developing countries
20) Job loading means Deliberate upgrading of responsibility, scope and
challenges
21) Negative motivation is based on Fear
22) Simon was positively influenced by the ideas of Barnard
23) What is the methodology proposed by Herbert Simon? Logical Positivism
24) Who among the following thinkers rejected the principles of administration as
myths and proverbs? Herbert Simon
25) The concept of the zone of indifference is associated with Authority
26) Name the scholar who analyzed leadership as circular response M.P. Follett
27) Non-state dimension of warfare is also called Post-westphalian warfare
28) Tehran Declaration of 1 December 1943 drew a plan for Peace-keeping
29) Who coined the term Functionalist theory of Integration? David Mittarany
30) Who wrote the book Stable Peace? Kenneth Boulding
31) Who enunciated International society theory as a combination of three schools of
thought Realism, Rationalism and Revolutionism? Martin Wight
32) Security Council Resolution No. 1441 of Nov 2002 deals with Resolution on
Iraq, which threatened serious consequences, if Saddam Hussain failed to
reveal his weapons of mass destruction toteam of U.N. Inspectors.

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33) The CEPA (Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement) was officially

endorsed in October 2010 between India and Japan
34) What is the correct sequence of Morton Kaplans models of systems analysis?
1. Balance of Power
2. Loose Bipolarity
3. Tight Bipolarity
4. Universal International System
35) Partha Chatterjee has commented that the latest phase of the globalization of
capital will witness an emerging opposition between Modernity and Democracy
36) What were the main findings of the Union Government administrative committee
headed by Home Secretary N.N. Vohra in 1993? Nexus between politicians,
criminals and bureaucrats
37) The Avadi Session of the Congress (1956) accepted the policy of Socialistic
pattern of society
38) Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given
below the lists:
1. Savarkar----Hinduize all politics and militarize Hinduism
2. M.N. Roy----Convicted in the Kanpur conspiracy case
3. Aurobindo Ghose----Associated with a secret society Lotus and
Daggers.
4. Jayaprakash

Narayan----Author

of

the

book

Plea

for

Reconstruction of Indian Polity

39) Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given
below:
(Dependency Theorists)

(Books)

1. Samir Amin---------------------Accumulation on a world scale

2. A.G. Frank----------------------Capitalism and under development in
Latin America
3. F. Henrique Cardoso----------Dependency and Development
4. Paul Swezey--------------------Monopoly Capital

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40) Identify the correct sequence of the following input functions of Almonds
Political System:
1. Political socialisation and recruitment
2. Interest articulation
3. Interest aggregation
4. Political communication
41) The President can make a proclamation of Financial Emergency under Art. 360
For the whole of India except Jammu and Kashmir
42) Which of the following statements about the Central Vigilance Commissioner is
not true?
1. The Central Vigilance Commissioner is appointed by the President of
India.
2. The post of Central Vigilance Commissioner is a statutory post.
3. He holds office for a term of five years.
4. He is empowered to exercise superintendence over the functioning of CBI.
43) Which of the following statements are not true?
1. The Election Commission of India has created a Special Election
Expenditure Monitoring Division in the Commission.
2. The accounts of political parties are audited annually.
3. Paid news in connection with elections is an electoral offence.
4. Videography of the poll proceedings inside the polling stations is
permissible.
44) Which of the following are parts of Morganthaus realist principle?
1. Politics is rooted in a permanent and unchanging human nature.
2. Self-interest is a basic fact of the human condition.
3. National interest defined in terms of power.

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2013 September UGC NET Examination in Political Science, Paper II: Previous
Years Solved Question Paper Along With Answer Keys
1) The idea of Participatory democracy originates with Rousseau
2) Who among the following regarded Buddhism as a moral and tolerant alternative
to Marxism? B.R. Ambedkar
3) John Rawls theory of Justice combines Liberal or associational socialistic
democracy, market economy and the redistributive welfare scheme
4) Who differentiated between antagonistic and non-antagonistic contradictions?
Mao
5) Structural-functionalism is primarily A framework of investigation
6) According to S.P. Huntigton Political Decay takes place when Mass
Mobilisation plus participation is greater than Institutionalisation
7) Which among the following defined the electoral law as The majority
(plurality) single ballot system that tends to a party dualism Duvergers law
8) Which one of the following theories developed by the European thinkers came
under the active discussion of social scientists in the US in the fifties? Elite
theory
9) Who among the following was not a member of the Indian Constituent Assembly?
Jai Prakash Narayan
10) Who among the following was a member of the Indian Constituent Assembly?
1. Sir Firoz Khan Nur
2. Sir Zafarullah Khan
3. Dr. Jay Shankar
11) The Drafting Committee member of the Constituent Assembly said that Governor
nominated by the President will be the agent of the Central Government. Identify
T.T. Krishnamachari
12) Which of the former presidents was associated with the Trade-Union Movement
in India? V.V. Giri
13) In which state of India seat is reserved in the Legislative Assembly on religious
basis? Goa

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14) Communalism is the political assertiveness of a community to maintain its

identity in a plural society undergoing modernization. Who among the following
has given the above mentioned statement? Robert Melson and Howard Wolpe
15) Which one of the following describes administration as the organization and
direction of human and material resources to achieve desired ends? J.M.
Pfiffner
16) If the administrative authority within a department is vested in a single individual,
then that system is known as Bureau
17) Audit of State Government is A union subject
18) The rule of Lapse means All appropriations voted by the legislature expire at
the end of the financial year
19) A new All India Service can be created by A resolution under Article 312 of the
Constitution
20) Which of the following is not an All India Service? Indian Foreign Service
21) Who developed the concept of Managerial Grid? Blake and Mouton
22) Which one of the following is not a provision to ensure the independence of
U.P.S.C.? A member on the expiry of his term is eligible for reappointment
for other governmental jobs
23) With which approach broadly would you associate the following statement: All
power requires knowledge and all knowledge relies on and reinforces existing
power relations? Postmodernism
24) 47. The CECA (Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement) was formally
announced to bost bilateral ties between India Singapore
25) The Indo-Nepal Treaty of Peace and Friendship (1950) is being criticized by
Nepali Maoist because Unequal Treaty, Rising Assertion of Nepali Identity
and Policy of equidistance with China
26) Which one of the following leaders did not participate in four continent peace
initiative of nuclear disarmament of 1984? President Zia-ul-Haq

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27) Commenting on the importance of the Himalayan frontier on Indian Foreign

policy which one of following leader said If it is breached, the way to Indian
Plains and Indian ocean beyond would be exposed and threats and India would
then likewise, be threat to other countries of South and South east Asia. Prime
Minister Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
28) Good governance and Participating Civil Society for Development mere
stressed in World Bank Report of 1992
29) Who has given the following statement in reference to India?
There three forces (computing forces of nationalism, regionalism and globalism)
are relative to and overlapping with one another, sometimes antagonistic and
sometimes co-operative towards each other but never harmonious. Arie M.M.
Kacowicz
30) In whose book caste has been defined as endogamous group on collection of
endogamous groups bearing a common name, membership of which is hereditary,
imposing on its members certain restrictions in matter of social intercourse, either
following a common traditional occupation or claiming a common origin, and
generally regarded as forming a single homogeneous community. E. Blunt
31) Ralph Miliband mewed the state as an instrument in the hands of the ruling class.
Which perspective of comparative politics can he be placed under? Instrumental
32) Who among the following envisaged the conflict of the present age as between
the all devouring collective ego whether of the nation or of the class and the
individual struggling for freedom? M.N. Roy
33) Plato describes the working of the human mind by
1. The allegory of the cave
2. The metaphor of the divided line
3. The doctrine of forms
34) For Savarkar, what were the three fundamental bonds that united the Hindus?
Territory, Race and Culture.
35) Which of the following are the common features of India and U.K?
1. Bicameralism
2. Prime Minister is the leader of the largest party on the floor of the
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House.
36) Which of the following statements are true of the British Parliamentary system?
1. Parliament can make law on any subject.
2. The Queen acts on the advice of the Cabinet.
3. The Cabinet functions on the principle of collective responsibility.
37) Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given
below:
(Authors)

(Books)

1. D. Held----Models of Democracy
2. J. Lively----Democracy
3. MacPherson----The Real World of Democracy
4. C. Pateman---- Participation and Democratic theory
38) Identify the correct sequence regarding the debate on the decline/demise of
Political theory.
1. David Easton on decline of Political theory.
2. Peter Laslett on demise of Political theory.
3. R.A. Dahl on death of Political theory.
4. Riemer-Political theory is in the dog house.
39) Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?
1. Dependency theory: Samir Amin
2. Theory of Development: Lucian Pye
3. Theory of Alienation: Karl Marx
40) Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given
below: (Books) (Editors/ Authors)
1. Development Planning and the Indian State-----Partha Chatterji
2. India: Globalization and change-----Pamela Shurmer Smith
3. Industry and Agriculture in India Since independence-----T.V.
Satyamurthy
4. Theories of Nationalism-----Anthony D. Smith

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41) Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given
below:
1. W.F. Willougby---- Principles of Public Administration
2. Mary Parker Follet---- Creative experience
3. Mooney And Reiley---- Principles of Organisation
4. Henri Fayol---- Industrial General Management
42) Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given
below:
(Regional Economic Commission)

(Head Quarters)

1. Economic Commission for Europe----------------Switzerland

2. Economic Commission for Africa------------------Ethipoia
3. Economic Commission for Latin America--------Chile
4. Economic Commission for West Asia--------------Iraq
43) Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given
below:
(Electoral Process)

(Countries)

1. First-Past-the- Post system---------------------------------USA

2. Second Ballot system----- ---------------------------------------France
3. Additional member system-------------------------------- Germany
4. Party list system-----------------------------------------------Switzerland
44)

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2013 December UGC NET Examination in Political Science, Paper II: Previous
Years Solved Question Paper Along With Answer Keys
1) Who among the following is not a principal character in Platos Republic?
Protagoras
2) Who among the following is the principal character in Platos Republic?
Polemarchus, Adeimantus and Glaucon
3) Who said, Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even
the welfare of society as a whole cannot override? John Rawls
4) Who was the founder of Utilitarianism? David Hume
5) Which one of the following writings is not written by Mao? Peoples War
6) Which of the following writings is written by Mao?
1. On New Democracy
2. On Coalition Government
3. On Peoples Democratic Dictatorship
7) Why did Gandhiji go to South Africa? To fight a case of a Gujarati Businessman
8) Who founded the Mexican Socialist Workers Party which was later named as
Mexican Communist Party? M.N. Roy
9) Whom did Lord Minto describe as the most dangerous man? Aurobindo Ghosh
10) Who among the following talks of pseudo-pressure groups? Maurice Duverger
11) Which one of the following is not a totalitarian form of Government?
Parliamentary form of Government
12) Which of the following is the totalitarian form of Government?
1. Military Government
2. Fascist Government
3. Communist Government
13) The concept of dependency evolved in the 1960s in Latin America
14) Who is the author of Federal India: A Design for Change? Rasheeduddin Khan
15) Who among the following has made pioneering contribution in the area of
subaltern studies? Ranjit Guha

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16) Who among the following questioned the claim that Public Administration is a
Science? Robert Dahl
17) Who among the following is not a protagonist of the managerial view of Public
Administration? Henry Fayol
18) The role of the Finance Commission in Centre-State fiscal relations has been
undermined by the The State Governments
19) Where is Indias Hi-Tech Naval Base Project Varsha located? Rambilli
20) Atoms for Peace was a disarmament plan put forward by which world leader?
Eisenhower
21) Who created the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) as an international
mechanism specifically for funding environmental projects in developing
countries? World Bank
22) What are the four defining elements of a regime? Principles, Norms, Rules,
Decision making procedures
23) When did India and Nepal sign the revised Double Taxation Avoidance
Agreement (DTAA)? 2011
24) Which of the following countries are included in ASEAN plus Three? China,
Japan, South Korea
25) The process of Socialisation in Modern Society is
1. Specific
2. Universalistic
3. Instrumental
26) Who among the following writers classified Elites into broad types? Karl
Mannheim
27) Who among the following classified parties under competitive system into two
major categories? Myron Weiner and Lapalombara
28) Arrange the following in their chronological sequence:
1. Nehru Committee Report
2. Declaration of Complete Independence
3. Civil Disobedience Movement
4. Quit India Movement
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29) Which one of the following States does not have a Bicameral Legislature?
1. Uttar Pradesh
2. Bihar
3. Maharashtra
4. Kerala
30) Which one of the following is not a sufficient ground for convening a joint sitting
of both Houses of Parliament? President has refused to give his assent to the
Bill.
31) F.W. Taylor, the founding father of Scientific Management Movement,
propounded the theory which was conceived to be a scientific methodology of
1. Careful observation
2. Managerial techniques
3. Generalization
32) To which of the following classes of job in the public service in India, merit-cumseniority principle is adopted in promotion? Class-I and II
33) Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given
below the lists: (Authors)

(Books)

1. A. Arblaster----------------Democracy
2. C.B. Mac Pherson--------The Real World of Democracy
3. C. Pateman----------------Participation and Democratic Theory
4. D. Held---------------------Models of Democracy
34) Which of the following, according to Kautilya, are the principles of good
governance for a king?
1. Merging individuality with duties.
2. Leading a disciplined life with a code of conduct.
3. Maintaining law and order.
35) Identify the correct sequence of Marxs Writings in ascending order:
1. Thesis on Feuerbach
2. Poverty of Philosophy
3. Communist Manifesto
4. Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
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36) Arrange in ascending order the following stages of Political Development as

enunciated by A.F.K. Organski. Select the correct answer from codes given
below:
1. Primitive National Unification
2. Industrialisation
3. National Welfare
4. Abundance
37) Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given
below:

(Thinkers)

(Ideas)

1. Karl Marx----Revolution as a process through which structural

inequalities could be eliminated
2. Chalmers Johnson----- Value co-ordinated social system model
3. Ted Gurr----- Aggregate psychological perspective
4. Barrington Moore----- State of paternalistic bond between peasantry and
property owners
38) Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from codes given below:
1. Approaches to the Study of Politics--- R. Young
2. Dynamics of Modernization--- C.E. Black
3. Influencing Voters--- R. Rose
4. Studies in Political Development--- J.S. Coleman
39) In which of the following case the Supreme Court of India held that, the power of
amendment belonged to the Parliament, and this power was an unlimited one?
Sankari Prasad V. Union of India
40) Chronologically arrange the following milestones in the Womens movement in
the correct ascending order.
1. Mexico City UN Conference
2. Copenhagen UN Conference
3. Nairobi
4. Beijing

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41) Chronologically arrange the following treaties in the correct ascending order:
1. The Treaty of Westphalia
2. Treaties of Utrecht
3. Treaty of Paris
4. The Charter of the UN
42) Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given
below: (Thinkers)

(Concepts)

1. William Cohen---- Revolution in Military Affairs

2. Martin Shaw---- Degenerate Wars
3. Raymond Aron---- Hyperbolic Wars
4. Mary Kaldor----- New Wars
43) Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given
below:
1. Line Agency-----Functions directly contributing to goal achievement
2. General Staff-------Looking after Personnel Administration
3. Specialised Staff-----Collection of data and its analysis.
4. Personal Staff------Maintenance of diary of different engagements of line
officials.
44) Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given
below: (Conspiracy Cases)

(Revolutionaries Punished)

1. Nasik case (1909-10)----------------- Vinayak Savarkar

2. Benares case (1916)------------------- Sachindranath Sanyal
3. Kakori case (1924)------------------ Ram Prasad Bismil
4. Lahore case (1929-30)-------------- Bhagat Singh
45) Identify the correct chronological order of the following Prime Minister/ Chief
Minister of J & K: Sheikh Abdulla, Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad,
Shamsuddin, G.M. Sadiq.

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