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This set of Socio Political Thought Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Socio Political Thought Set 3

Q1 | Which factor is necessary for the development of democratic institutions?
  • strong military forces
  • respect for individual rights
  • a one-party system
  • an agricultural economy
Q2 | Who said “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” ?
  • lord acton
  • david apter
  • a.v. dicey
  • montesquieu
Q3 | Parliamentary form of government first evolved in
  • greece
  • the united kingdom
  • the united states
  • rome
Q4 | Who said that Bureaucracy is “a regulated administrative system organized as a series ofInter related offices ?
  • max weber;
  • gladden;
  • f.m. marx;
  • john a. vieg
Q5 | The power to decide an election petition is vested in the
  • parliament;
  • supreme court;
  • high courts;
  • election commission
Q6 | Who said, “Revolution is a sweeping fundamental change in the predominant myth of a socialorder”?
  • g.s. peter;
  • h arendt;
  • huntington;
  • neumann
Q7 | Participation is an important element of every
  • monarchial system
  • oligarchical system
  • democratic system
  • aristocratic system
Q8 | 'If sovereignty is not absolute, no state will exist'. Who said this ?
  • laski;
  • locke;
  • austin;
  • none of the above
Q9 | According to Marx 'the Dictatorship of the proletariat' signifies ?
  • a transitional state
  • an ideal state
  • an autocratic state
  • a liberal states
Q10 | Who said ‘Neutrality is’ one of the strongest bulwarks of democracy ?
  • f. m. marx;
  • peter self;
  • ajay baseli;
  • o. p. dwivedi
Q11 | “All administration means domination” who said this ?
  • weber;
  • martin albrow;
  • r. k. merton;
  • talcot parsons
Q12 | Who among the following first developed the concept of general system theory
  • colin cherry
  • ludwig von bertallanffy
  • robert k merton
  • talcott parsons
Q13 | Democracy is meaningless without
  • president and congress
  • supreme court and president
  • a federal form of government
  • freedom of speech
Q14 | Structural functionalism as a method was developed to study the politics of
  • modern totalitarianism
  • politics of developing countries
  • developed socialism
  • advanced capitalism
Q15 | Who wrote “Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign 70. Gandhi describe himself as a
  • social democrat
  • philosophical anarchist
  • socialist
  • liberal
Q16 | According to Aristotle, democracy is
  • a genuine form of government
  • the same as oligarchy
  • a perverted form of government
  • the same as polity
Q17 | Power is the capacity to
  • persuade
  • hold sovereignty
  • produce intended effects
  • exercise authority
Q18 | Authority is the right to
  • invoke tradition
  • nationhood
  • rule
  • delegate
Q19 | Sovereignty refers to
  • ruling monarchs
  • ceremonial leaders
  • supreme courts
  • the ultimate source of authority
Q20 | Which of the following is the function of political parties?
  • supervising interest groups
  • administering elections
  • aggregating (combining) interest
  • negotiating with foreign governments
Q21 | Who introduced hegemony in the concept of civil society?
  • lenin
  • gramsci
  • hegel
  • marx
Q22 | Who said ‘civilisation is not a burden, but it is an opportunity?
  • marx
  • gandhi
  • nehru
  • lenin
Q23 | The Iron Law of Oligarchy is associated with
  • michels
  • millet
  • bentham
  • kant
Q24 | Who wrote the work ‘a preface to democratic theory’?
  • dahl
  • marx
  • lenin
  • maciver
Q25 | The most essential principle of liberalism is
  • equality
  • social justice
  • democracy
  • freedom