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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 9

Q1 | The idea of ‘reverse discrimination’ implies:
  • Discriminiation in a decreasing order
  • Equating rich and poor as in the electoral arena
  • Bestowing favoured treatment to the hithere deprived sections
  • Establishing institutional checks against arbitrary distinctions
Q2 | Who among the following holds the view that right are those conditions of social life withoutwhich man cannot be his best self?
  • Green
  • Laski
  • Barker
  • None of the above
Q3 | Who among the following opines that a right is a power clamined and recognized ascontributory to common good?
  • Green
  • Laski
  • Barker
  • None of the above
Q4 | In their essence rights are:
  • Legal injunctions
  • Moral impreatives
  • Conditions of law
  • Aspects of social life
Q5 | Who among the following held the view that right is man’s capacity of influencing the acts ofanother by means of the opinion and force of society?
  • Bluntschli
  • Bodin
  • Holland
  • Locke
Q6 | The work Law and Rights is authored by:
  • W.E Hocking
  • L.T Hobhouse
  • Harold Laski
  • None of the above
Q7 | Rights are broadly divided into three categories: natural rights, moral rights and legal rights
  • Civil rights
  • Political rights
  • Economic rights
  • All of the above
Q8 | Which of the following is the use to which the term ‘liberty’ can be put?
  • Freedom from constraint, captivity or tyranny
  • The unrestrained enjoyment of natural rights
  • Power of free choice
  • All the above
Q9 | Inequality in society was supported by:
  • Pericls
  • Plato
  • Aristotle
  • Both (b) and (c)
Q10 | In the nineteenth century, a vigorous demand for socio –econimic equality was raised by:
  • Working class
  • Peasantry
  • Propertied class
  • None of the above
Q11 | The work liberty, Equality, Fraternity is authored by:
  • J.F. Stephen
  • J.F. Kennedy
  • J.F. Ribero
  • None of the above
Q12 | Legal equality implies:
  • Equal subjection of all citizens to the law
  • Equal protection of the law for all citizens
  • Equal distribution of material goods to all
  • Both (a) and (b)
Q13 | Justice is a dynamic idea because
  • Its realization is a continuous process
  • Progress towards its realization depends upon the development of social consciousness
  • Both (a) and (b)
  • The term justice suggests the quality of being just or right or reasonable
Q14 | The earliest concept of justice in Greek thought is found to be in the writings of
  • Pericles
  • Socrates
  • Sophists
  • Early pythagoreans
Q15 | The concept of positive law is
  • Roman in origin
  • Greek in origin
  • Liberals
  • None of the above
Q16 | Who has termed social consciousness is modern consciousness in the context of thedetermination of the meaning of justice?
  • Barker
  • D.D.Raphael
  • Laski
  • Sabine
Q17 | Legal justice is broadly applied in the context of :
  • Justice according to law
  • Law according to justice
  • Both (a) and (b)
  • Law and justice according to morality
Q18 | Who among the following viewed that justice consisted in an efficient administration of lawand it should not be tested on some imaginary moral values?
  • Antony Giddens
  • Alf Ross
  • Almond
  • None of the above
Q19 | Democratic or political participation is the hall mark of democracy and
  • Political modernization
  • Political development
  • Both (a) and (b)
  • Political communication
Q20 | In the long run broadened participation is a variable of :
  • Political communication
  • Social and economic modernization
  • Cultural revolution
  • Social justice
Q21 | The book India’s Development Experience is authored by:
  • Manmohan Singh
  • Atul Kohli
  • I.J.Ahluwalia
  • Tarlock Singh
Q22 | The system which enables the majority of a constituency in Switzerland to call back their representative from his office if they are not satisfied with his office and if they are notsatisfied with his work is:
  • Proportional representation
  • Recall
  • Spoil system
  • Plebiscite
Q23 | The work ideology and Utopia is authored by:
  • Karl Mannheim
  • S.M. Lipset
  • Saint Simon
  • A.F. Bentley
Q24 | Who among the following insists on the ‘mono-national state’ as a condition of successfuldemocracy?
  • Thomas Hobbes
  • Hannah Arendt
  • J.S Mill
  • Laski
Q25 | The “iron law of oligarchy” was propounded by:
  • James Burnham
  • Robert Michels
  • Gaetano Mosca
  • Graham Wallas