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This set of An Introduction to Political Science Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on An Introduction To Political Science Set 2

Q1 | Who introduced ‘intellectual foundations stones’ for behavioural approach?
  • easton
  • merriam
  • lasswell
  • bentley
Q2 | Which approach is, according to Rober A Dahl, an attempt to make the empirical content ofPolitical Science more scientific
  • institutional approach
  • historical approach
  • philosophical approach
  • behavioural approach
Q3 | Who said PoliticalScience is the sharing and shaping up of of power”?
  • merriam
  • lasswell
  • catlin
  • none of them
Q4 | Who is known as the greatest advocate of Post-Behaviouralism?
  • merriam
  • easton
  • lasswell
  • bentley
Q5 | Which approach demands ‘relevance’ and ‘action’?
  • institutional approach
  • post-behaviouralist approach
  • behaviouralist
  • historical approach
Q6 | Which approach considers “State being an engine of tyranny and exploitation?
  • post-behaviouralism
  • marxian approach
  • behaviouralism
  • institutional approach
Q7 | The term ‘state’ is derived from which language?
  • latin
  • greek
  • english
  • none of it
Q8 | Who defined “the state is the politically organised people of a definite territory”?
  • bluntschli
  • wilson
  • machiavelli
  • aristotle
Q9 | Who said, state is a “territorial society divided into government and subjects whoserelationships are determined by the exercise of this supreme coercive power”?
  • laski
  • mao
  • wilson
  • marx
Q10 | Whose treatise, “the origin of the Family, Private Property and the State”?
  • marx
  • engels
  • lenin
  • mao
Q11 | Who is the author of the book ‘Ancient Society’?
  • morgan
  • popper
  • maine
  • mao
Q12 | Who defined sovereignty as the ‘the supreme power over citizens and subjects unrestrainedby laws’?
  • garner
  • jean bodin
  • austin
  • gilchrist
Q13 | Which one of the following is not an element of the state?
  • government
  • sovereignty
  • associations
  • territory
Q14 | Who said ‘Kinship creates society and society at length creates the state
  • gettell
  • maine
  • maciver
  • austin
Q15 | Who points, because society is federal, authority must also be federal?
  • maine
  • maciver
  • bentham
  • laski
Q16 | Whose work is ‘ Das Capital ‘
  • karl marx
  • lindsay
  • bodin
  • maciver
Q17 | What is the first virtue of social institution, according to Rawls?
  • wealth
  • strength
  • militarism
  • justice.
Q18 | To what domain did Rawls direct his views of justice?
  • political domain
  • medical domain
  • financial domain
  • private domain
Q19 | Rawls conceives of the original contract as one to:
  • enter a particular society
  • set up a particular form of government
  • establish the principles of justice for the basic structure of society
  • establish the content of morality
Q20 | ‘Theory of Justice’ is a work by:
  • aristotle
  • henry min
  • john rawls
  • m e bayels
Q21 | Which is the work of Montesquieu?
  • ant-duhring
  • state and revolution
  • the spirit of laws
  • the poverty of philosophy
Q22 | Shadow cabinet is a system prevails in which country
  • u k
  • japan
  • india
  • france
Q23 | Deliberative democracy involves
  • politicians consulting their ministerial colleagues before taking decisions
  • every major political decisions being taken after referendum
  • extensive public debate before taking decisions
  • none of the above
Q24 | Which work is written by Dicey?
  • modern states
  • the history of the states
  • introduction to the study of law of the constitution
  • the spirit of laws
Q25 | Who wrote ‘The Process of Government’
  • arthur bentley
  • graham wallas
  • charles merriam
  • david easton