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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 4

Q1 | Who introduced the concept of negative and positive rights?
  • andrew haywood
  • laski
  • john locke
  • barker
Q2 | Social justice is primarily concerned with
  • who governs society
  • how society is governed
  • how society is defined
  • who should get what in society?
Q3 | Equality of opportunity means
  • everybody as equal right to complain
  • everybody finishes the same start in life
  • everybody finishes the same regardless of effort
  • everybody is equal
Q4 | Who among the following described democracy as the ‘tyranny of the majority?
  • james madison
  • john dunning
  • j rousseau
  • de tocqueville
Q5 | Who among the following advocated party less democracy in India?
  • acharya vinoba bhave
  • jayprakash narayan
  • mahatma gandhi
  • m.n. roy
Q6 | What did Gandhiji mean by Swaraj?
  • freedom of the country
  • freedom for the meanest of the countrymen
  • self government
  • complete independence
Q7 | Who among the following theorists advocated participatory democracy?
  • c.b. macpherson
  • michael oakeshoot
  • f. a. hayek
  • gaetano mosca
Q8 | Which of the following does not lead to the spread of democracy?
  • struggle by the people
  • end of colonialism
  • invasion by foreign countries
  • people’s desire for freedom
Q9 | Participatory democracy calls for:
  • increasing the voter turnout in elections
  • greater and active engagement of citizens in government
  • greater involvement of the legislature in the business of legislature
  • active engagement of the representatives in the affairs of their constituencies
Q10 | The advocates of deliberative democracy emphasize
  • executive supremacy
  • parliamentary sovereignty
  • judicial autonomy
  • popular participation
Q11 | The Communist manifesto was first published in
  • russian
  • english
  • german
  • french
Q12 | According to David Easton, the main function of government is to:
  • provide social order, national security, and public goods
  • guarantee constitutional rights
  • levy tax on people to run the political system
  • allocate authoritatively values for a whole society.
Q13 | The term ‘politics’ was derived from two words ‘polis’ and ‘polity’ in which language
  • greek
  • latin
  • english
  • french
Q14 | Who defined politics as “the authoritative allocation of values that are binding on thesociety?”
  • john lock
  • j.s. mill
  • david easton
  • almond
Q15 | Who contributed the work ‘the Politics’?
  • aristotle
  • plato
  • socrates
  • machiavelli
Q16 | The development of Political Science as a discipline can be traced back to
  • 4th century b.c
  • 3rd century b.c
  • 5th century b.c.
  • 6th century b.c.
Q17 | Who was the first proponent of scientific study of Politics?
  • charles merriam
  • harold d lasswell
  • george catlin
  • arthur bentley
Q18 | Who said this , ‘behavioural approach is a protest movement within politics science andmake the empirical component more rigorous’
  • charles merriam
  • robert a dahl
  • george catlin
  • arthur bentley
Q19 | Eighth principles of the behavioural approach of political science generally known as
  • verifications
  • pure science
  • intellectual foundations
  • observational study
Q20 | Who wrote the book ‘Four Essays on Liberty’?
  • herbert spencer
  • earnest barker
  • j s mill
  • isaiah berlin
Q21 | Who was the most ardent advocate of Post Behaviouralism?
  • david easton
  • c wright mills
  • robert dahl
  • harold d lasswell
Q22 | The strong demands of Post behaviouralists are
  • pure science
  • relevance and action
  • value
  • none of these
Q23 | Historical materialism is one of the tools in
  • behaviouralism
  • utilitarianism
  • marxism
  • post behaviouralism
Q24 | Whose work is Lecturers on Jurisprudence”?
  • gilchrist
  • john austin
  • a.v. dicey
  • garner
Q25 | Who wrote the work “Representative Government”?
  • lowell
  • t.h. green
  • j.s. mill
  • laski