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This set of Socio Political Thought Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Socio Political Thought Set 5

Q1 | Behavioural approach in Politics Science is an attempt to make the empirical content of Political Science more scientific who said this?
  • charles merriam
  • robert a dahl
  • george catlin
  • arthur bentley
Q2 | Eighth principles of the behavioural approach of political science generally known as
  • verifications
  • pure science
  • intellectual foundations
  • observational study
Q3 | Politics is “the study of shaping and sharing of power”
  • charles merriam
  • robert a dahl
  • harold d lasswell
  • arthur bentley
Q4 | Politics became “narrow focus, the trivial detail and abstract fact”
  • c wright mills
  • robert a dahl
  • harold d lasswell
  • arthur bentley
Q5 | Who was the most ardent advocate of Post Bahaviouralism?
  • david easton
  • c wright mills
  • robert dahl
  • harold d lasswell
Q6 | The strong demands of Post behaviouralists are
  • pure science
  • relevance and action
  • value
  • none of these
Q7 | Historical materialism is one of the tools in
  • behaviouralism
  • utilitarianism
  • marxism
  • post behaviouralism
Q8 | Who defines state as “people organised for law within a definite territory?
  • j.k. bluntschli
  • c wright mills
  • woodrow wilson
  • ralph miliband
Q9 | “Territorial society divided into government and subjects who relationships are determined by the exercise of this supreme coercive power” who said this?
  • harold j laski
  • c wright mills
  • woodrow wilson
  • ralph miliband
Q10 | Who emphasised the importance of the ‘subjective desire of the people’ for organisation and maintenance of the stae?
  • harold j laski
  • c wright mills
  • woodrow wilson
  • willoughby
Q11 | Who said, an association as “a group organised for the pursuit of an interest or a group of interests in common”?
  • harold j laski
  • maciver
  • woodrow wilson
  • willoughby
Q12 | Who defined sovereignty as the ‘absolute and perpetual power of commanding in a state?
  • garner;
  • jean bodin;
  • green;
  • hobbes
Q13 | Who is regarded as the greatest exponent of the Monistic theory of sovereignty?
  • jean bodin
  • anthony giddens
  • john austin
  • michel waltzer
Q14 | Who propounded sovereignty in his famous concept of the ‘general will’
  • anthony giddens
  • rousseau
  • john locke
  • hobbes
Q15 | Who defined sovereignty as “the supreme power of the state over citizens and subjects unrestrained by law”?
  • john austin
  • rousseau
  • john locke
  • jean bodin
Q16 | Whose work is “the Law of War and Peace”
  • john austin
  • jean bodin
  • hugo grotius
  • john locke
Q17 | Whose work is ?Lecturers on Jurisprudence”?
  • gilchrist
  • john austin
  • a.v. dicey
  • garner
Q18 | Who is the main proponent of the pluralist concept of sovereignty?
  • hugo grotius
  • john austin
  • henry maine
  • jean bodin
Q19 | Whose work is “Grammar of Politics”?
  • john austin
  • jean bodin
  • laski
  • locke
Q20 | Whose work is “The Spirit of Laws”?
  • jean bodin
  • henry maine
  • laski
  • montesquieu
Q21 | Who wrote the work ‘Modern State’?
  • montesquieu
  • mac iver
  • laski
  • garner
Q22 | Whose work is “Introduction to the Study of Law of the Constitution”?
  • jean bodin
  • gilchrist
  • hugo grotius
  • a.v. dicey
Q23 | Who wrote the work “Representative Government”?
  • lowell
  • t.h. green
  • j.s. mill
  • laski
Q24 | Which of the following is not a traditional approach to the study of Political Science?
  • simulation
  • legal institutionalism
  • historiography
  • comparison
Q25 | Whose work is “the Nerves of Government”
  • catlin
  • duverger
  • deutsch
  • george sabine