Pol Science December 2012 Paper II Solved

POLITICAL SCIENCE

PAPER – II

Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying two (2)

marks. Attempt all the questions.

1. In Hegel’s notion the highest possible

achievement of Mind as expressed in

social life was in

 (A) The Contemporary Prussian State

 (B) Rome

 (C) Athens

 (D) Contemporary Great Britain

Answer:(A)

2. Machiavelli advised the Prince to

pursue

 (A) Moderate behaviour

 (B) Extreme generosity

 (C) Perfect strictness

 (D) Great kindness

Answer:(A)

3. Which is not a part of Rawls’ well

ordered society ?

 (A) Stable

 (B) Efficient

 (C) Just

 (D) Equal

Answer:(D)

4. Who among the following wrote,

 “Laws are the rules of just and unjust;

nothing being reputed unjust that is not

contrary to some law” ?

 (A) Bentham

 (B) Hegel

 (C) Hobbes

 (D) Rousseau

Answer:(C)

5. Arrange the following works of

Rousseau chronologically, using the

codes given below :

 a. The Social Contract

 b. A Discourse on the Arts and

Sciences

 c. Emile

 d. A Discourse on the Origin of

Inequality

Codes :

 (A) d, c, b, a

 (B) a, c, d, b

 (C) c, a, b, d

 (D) b, d, c, a

Answer:(D)

6. Match List – I with List – II and select

the correct answer from the codes

given below :

List – I  List – II

a. On Liberty  1. Amartya Sen

b. Lectures on the  2. T.H. Green

Principles of

Political

Obligation

c. Idea of Justice  3. Robert Nozick

d. Anarchy, State  4. J.S. Mill

and Utopia

 Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) 3 1 2 4

 (B) 1 3 2 4

 (C) 2 4 3 1

 (D) 4 2 1 3

Answer:(D)

7. Match List – I with List – II and select

the correct answer from the codes

given below :

List – I  List – II

a. Justice as one

person, one duty,  1. Plato

one class one

work

b. Justice as fairness  2. Aristotle

c. Justice as

proportionate  3. Rawls

equality

d. Justice as the  4. Thrasymachas

interest of the

strong

 Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) 1 2 3 4

 (B) 2 1 3 4

 (C) 2 1 4 3

 (D) 1 3 2 4

Answer:(D)

8. Match List – I with List – II and select

the correct answer from the codes

given below :

List – I  List – II

a. Perpetual peace  1. Plato

b. Golden Mean  2. Kant

c. Analogy of the  3. Aristotle

cave

d. Fortune as a  4. Machiavelli

woman

 Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) 1 2 3 4

 (B) 2 3 1 4

 (C) 2 1 4 3

 (D) 4 3 2 1

Given below are two statements, one

labelled as Assertion (A) and the other

labelled as Reason (R). Select the

correct answer from the codes given

below :

Answer:(B)

9. Assertion (A) : Marx was a

revolutionary.

Reason (R) : Marx was not concerned

about the processes of history.

 Codes :

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R)

is the correct explanation of (A).

 (B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but

(R) is not the correct explanation

of (A).

 (C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

 (D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

Answer:(C)

10. Assertion (A) : Aristotle is justifiably

called the Father of Political

Science.

Reason (R) : His criticism of Plato’s

idealism justifies this claim.

 Codes :

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true, and

(R) is the correct explanation of

(A).

 (B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but

(R) is not the correct explanation

of (A).

 (C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

 (D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

Answer:(A)

11. The operational part of the general

systems theory in social sciences has

been developed first in

 (A) Psychology

 (B) Sociology

 (C) Political Science

 (D) Anthropology

Answer:(D)

12. Who said, “Functionalism can indeed

be interpreted as a conscious

alternative to Marxism” ?

 (A) W.G. Runciman

 (B) Robert K. Merton

 (C) Oran Young

 (D) David Easton

Answer:(A)

13. Who among the following stated that a

developing society in order to reach the

goals of development would have to

pass through the stages of political

unification, industrialization, national

welfare and abundance ?

 (A) Rustow

 (B) Organski

 (C) Lucian Pye

 (D) David Apter

Answer:(B)

14. Which one of the following pairs is not

correctly matched ?

 (A) Lucian Pye : Modernisation Theory

 (B) Wallerstein : World System Theory

 (C) Theda Skocpol : New Institutionalism

 (D) Karl Deutsch : Communications

Theory

Answer:(A)

15. Which one of the following pairs is not

correctly matched ?

 (A) Pareto : The concept of

residues

 (B) Michels : The concept of mass mind

 (C) Mills : The concept of political formula

 (D) Gasset : The theory of the masses

Answer:(C)

16. The concept of civic culture developed

out of a survey of

 (A) Mexico, India, Pakistan, U.S.A.

and U.K.

 (B) U.S.A., U.K., Mexico, Germany

and Italy.

 (C) U.S.A., U.K., Australia, Pakistan

and India.

 (D) Australia, Canada, U.S.A., U.K.

and France.

Answer:(B)

17. Unequal exchange is the formulation

of

 (A) Samir Amin

 (B) Amartya Sen

 (C) Paul Sweezy

 (D) Andre Gunder Frank

Answer:(A)

18. Duverger’s classification of the party

system is derived from the experience

of political parties in

 (A) Western Europe

 (B) All the democracies of the world

 (C) Party system in the developing

world

 (D) Political party system in the

communist world

Answer:(A)

19. Which of the following statements

are correct about the President of

America ?

 1. He is the head of the State and

also the head of the Government.

 2. All executive powers are vested

in him.

 3. He is bound by the advice of his

Cabinet.

 4. He has the power to dissolve the

legislature.

Codes :

 (A) 1 and 3 are correct.

 (B) 2, 3 and 4 are correct.

 (C) 1, 3 and 4 are correct.

 (D) 1 and 2 are correct.

Answer:(D)

20. Which one of the following is not a

feature of F.M. Marx’s guardian

bureaucracy ?

 (A) Custodian of Public interest

 (B) Competent

 (C) Authoritarian

 (D) Corrupt

Answer:(D)

21. Which of the following Committee

was appointed by the Government of

India to Identify the creamy layer

among Backward Classes in India ?

 (A) Justice R.N. Mishra Committee

 (B) Justice R.N. Madholkar

Committee

 (C) Justice Ram Nandan Committee

 (D) Justice Rajender Sachar

Committee

Answer:(C)

22. Who described Indian Politics as

“Politics of Scarcity” ?

 (A) Myron Weiner

 (B) Paul R. Brass

 (C) Atul Kohli

 (D) Morris-Jones

Answer:(A)

23. Which Congress President during

British Raj initiated the idea of a

Planning Commission ?

 (A) Jawaharlal Nehru

 (B) Mahatma Gandhi

 (C) Maulana Azad

 (D) Subhas Chandra Bose

Answer:(D)

24. Which of the following statements are

correct about Indian Government ?

 (i) Rajya Sabha represents the local

interests of the States.

 (ii) A member of Rajya Sabha must

be a resident of the State from

which he is elected.

 (iii) Number of seats allotted to a

State has to be proportionate to

its population.

 (iv) The term of a member of Rajya

Sabha is same as that of Senator

in the US.

Codes :

 (A) (ii), (iii) and (iv)

 (B) (i), (ii) and (iii)

 (C) (i), (iii) and (iv)

 (D) (i) and (ii)

Answer:(X)

25. Who of the following was the first

Satyagrahi of the Individual Civil

Disobedience Movement started by

Gandhiji in October 1940 ?

 (A) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

 (B) J.B. Kripalani

 (C) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

 (D) Acharya Vinoba Bhave

Answer:(D)

26. Who prefers to characterize the

Indian federalism as “bargaining

federalism” ?

 (A) A.K. Chanda

 (B) Morris Jones

 (C) K.C.Wheare

 (D) D.D. Basu

Answer:(B)

27. Who was the Chairman of Mandal

Commission ?

 (A) B.N. Mandal

 (B) B.P. Mandal

 (C) D.L. Mandal

 (D) R.N. Mandal

Answer:(B)

28. When was the Inter-State Council set

up in India ?

 (A) 1987

 (B) 1989

 (C) 1990

 (D) 1992

Answer:(C)

29. When were the Lok Sabha rules

amended to provide for Department

Related Parliamentary Standing

Committees ?

 (A) 1988

 (B) 1989

 (C) 1991

 (D) 1995

Answer:(B)

30. Which one of the following

Acts/Reports created the Federal Court

in India ?

 (A) Government of India Act, 1909.

 (B) Government of India Act, 1919.

 (C) Montague-Chelmsford Report

 (D) Government of India Act, 1935

Answer:(D)

31. The Book ‘Introduction to Public

Administration’ was authored by

 (A) W.F. Willoughby

 (B) Woodrow Wilson

 (C) M.P. Follet

 (D) Leonard D. White

Answer:(D)

32. The concept of ‘Informal Organisation’

was profounded by

 (A) F.W. Taylor

 (B) Herbert Simon

 (C) Elton Mayo

 (D) F.M. Marx

Answer:(C)

33. ‘Clect’ is the sub-system of Riggs’

Prismatic society

 (A) Social system

 (B) Administrative system

 (C) Economic system

 (D) Political system

Answer:(A)

34. ‘Jacksonian Theory’ is also called

 (A) Merit system

 (B) Outsource theory

 (C) Spoils system

 (D) Contract system

Answer:(C)

35. Which of the four major issues of

Public Administration were debated in

the Minnowbrooke Conference, 1968 ?

 (A) Relevance, values, equity and

change.

 (B) History, qualities, values and

development.

 (C) Text, context, relevance and

status.

 (D) Norms, values, context and

progress.

Answer:(A)

36. Who said, ‘Successful Management

involves Management by Objectives” ?

 (A) F.W. Taylor

 (B) Peter F. Drucker

 (C) Kothari Committee

 (D) Edwin B. Flippo

Answer:(B)

37. In which book of the following, Robert

Dahl explained the Theory of Decision

Making ?

 (A) Democracy, Liberty and Equality

 (B) Democracy at Cross Roads

 (C) Who Governs ?

 (D) Modern Political Analysis

Answer:(C)

38. Which Committee recommended

“Unified Grading Structure” for the

British Civil Service ?

 (A) Masterman

 (B) Fulton

 (C) Asheton

 (D) McGraw

Answer:(B)

39. Given below are two statements, one

labelled as Assertion (A) and the other

labelled as Reason (R). Find the correct

answer using the codes given below :

 Assertion (A) : Adequate measures

must be taken by the Government

to ensure the stoppage of the

practice of corruption.

Reason (R) : Corruption leads to

decline of democratic process.

 Codes :

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true, but

(R) is not correct explanation of

(A).

 (B) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

 (C) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R)

is correct explanation of (A).

 (D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

Answer:(A)

40. Match the following :

 The Office of Ombudsman was set up

in these countries in the following

years :

(Countries)   (Years)

a. Sweden  1. 1967

b. Finland  2. 1809

c. New Zealand  3. 1978

d. United Kingdom    4. 1919

5. 1962

Select the correct answer :

 Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) 2 4 5 1

 (B) 1 5 3 4

 (C) 3 2 1 5

 (D) 4 3 5 1

Answer:(A)

41. In the post Soviet era Russia’s outlook

at global level is marked by

 (A) Rigid Ideological positions

 (B) Enhanced role for Soviet era

legacies.

 (C) Pragmatic de-ideologised world

view.

 (D) Rigidities of cold war era.

Answer:(C)

42. Who of the following has coined the

term under-development ?

 (A) Antonio Gramsci

 (B) Rosa Luxemburg

 (C) Emmanual Wallerstein

 (D) Kenneth Waltz

Answer:(C)

43. The policy of containment formulated

by the U.S. aimed at

 (A) Checking globally the influence

of the Soviet Union.

 (B) Checking the nuclear

proliferation of Iran.

 (C) Containing defiant North Korea.

 (D) Countering the expansionist

policies of People’s Republic of

China.

Answer:(A)

44. The Kyoto Protocol of 1997 adopted

the programme for

 (A) ending global poverty

 (B) the democratisation of U.N.

system

 (C) broadening the participation

within I.M.F. and World Bank.

 (D) reducing greenhouse emissions.

Answer:(D)

45. Match List – I with List – II and select

correct answer from the codes given

below :

List – I  List – II

a. Morton Kaplan  1. Perestroika

and Glasnost

b. Andre Gunder             2. Theory of Realism

Frank

c. Hans J. Morgenthau  3. Systems Theory

d. Mikhail  4. Dependency Theory

Gorbachev

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) 3 4 2 1

 (B) 4 2 3 1

 (C) 2 4 1 3

 (D) 2 1 3 4

Answer:(A)

46. The principle of reciprocity within

WTO framework envisages

 (A) lowering of trade barriers by a

State to be matched in return.

 (B) creation of trade barriers on

uniform basis.

 (C) protection of intellectual property

rights.

 (D) enhanced role for State controls

on trade.

Answer:(A)

47. What is the correct chronological order

of the events listed below ?

 i. U.S. Policy of Containment of

the Soviet Union.

 ii. Dissolution of the former Soviet

Union.

 iii. Iran-Iraq War.

 iv. US War on terrorism in

Afghanistan.

 Choose the right answer from the

codes given below :

Codes :

 (A) iv, ii, iii, i

 (B) ii, iv, i, iii

 (C) iii, ii, iv, i

 (D) i, iii, ii, iv

Answer:(D)

48. The dictum, ‘Imperialism is the highest

stage of Capitalism’ was propounded

by

 (A) Karl Marx

 (B) V.I. Lenin

 (C) Andre Gunder Frank

 (D) Emmanual Wallerstein

Answer:(B)

49. Hans Blix was head of U.N. body for

 (A) Peace-keeping operations in

Somalia.

 (B) Inspecting places in Iraq for

verification of Weapons of Mass

Destruction.

 (C) Working modalities for the

creation of NIEO.

 (D) Rebuilding war-torn Afghanistan

Answer:(B)

50. Nagorno Karabakh is a disputed

territory between

 (A) Armenia and Azerbaizan

 (B) Georgia and Ukraine

 (C) Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan

 (D) Russian Federation and China

Answer:(A)