Pol Science December 2012 Paper III Solved

POLITICAL SCIENCE

PAPER – III

Note : This paper contains seventy five (75) objective type questions of two (2) marks each.

All questions are compulsory.

1. The word ‘theory’, derived from the

Greek word ‘Theoria’ means

 (A) A well organized political system

 (B) A well focused mental look

 (C) A well articulated economic

structure

 (D) A system of physical

arrangement

Answer:(B)

2. Who, among the following, is not

associated with decline of political

theory ?

 (A) Peter Laslett

 (B) David Easton

 (C) Jean Blondel

 (D) Alfred Cobban

Answer:(C)

3. Who said ‘negative liberty is superior

to positive liberty’ ?

 (A) J.S. Mill

 (B) Isaiah Berlin

 (C) T.H. Green

 (D) Ernest Barker

Answer:(B)

4. Which one among the following

statements is true ?

 (A) Social Justice violates the

principles of equality.

 (B) Social Justice is derived from

moral reasonableness.

 (C) Social justice is a negation of

justice

 (D) Social justice is an instrument of

political manipulation.

Answer:(B)

5. Which one among the following was

the first mass movement Mao led ?

 (A) The Cultural Revolution

 (B) The Great Leap Forward

 (C) Let hundred flowers blossom and

hundred schools of thought

contend.

 (D) None of the above

Answer:(C)

6. The term ‘Leninism’ was coined by

 (A) Trotsky (B) Stalin

 (C) Marx (D) Mao

Answer:(B)

7. Who is the author of the book The

Good Boatman ?

 (A) Erikson

 (B) Rajmohan Gandhi

 (C) Romain Rolland

 (D) Noema

Answer:(B)

8. Which one among the following

statements is true ?

 (A) Plato’s Republic is a book on

ethics

 (B) It is a book on politics

 (C) It is both on ethics and politics

 (D) It is a book on education

Answer:(C)

9. Which one among the following is not

written by M.N. Roy ?

 (A) The Future of Indian Politics

 (B) Gandhism, Nationalism and

Socialism

 (C) New Humanism

 (D) Nationalism, Rationality and

Revolution

Answer:(D)

10. Who among the following has

compared fortune with a woman ?

 (A) M.N. Roy

 (B) Rousseau

 (C) Hobbes

 (D) Machiavelli

Answer:(D)

11. Which one among the following is not

a work about alienation ?

 (A) Paris Manuscripts

 (B) Theses on Feuerbach

 (C) Poverty of Philosophy

 (D) The German Ideology

Answer:(C)

12. General Will means

 (A) Actual Will

 (B) Majority Will

 (C) Sum total of Wills

 (D) Real Will

Answer:(D)

13. Assertion (A) : Social Contract established

a sovereign Government.

Reason (R) : Citizens do have an

absolute obligation to obey all

laws or accept any form of

Government.

In the context of the two statements,

which one of the following is correct ?

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

is 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)

14. Match the List – I with List – II and

select the correct answer from the

codes given below with reference to

Aristotle and Plato :

List – I  List – II

(Pure form)  (Degenerated form)

a. Monarchy  i. Democracy

b. Aristocracy  ii. Tyranny

c. Polity  iii. Oligarchy

d. Ideal State  iv. Timocracy (First stage)

 Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) iv i ii iii

 (B) ii iii i iv

 (C) iii ii iv i

 (D) i iv iii ii

Answer:(B)

15. What is the chronological correct

sequence of the following books ?

i. Richard

Attenborough

In Search of

Gandhi.

ii. Louis Fisher The Life of

Mahatma Gandhi

iii. E.H. Erikson Gandhi’s Truth

iv. J. Eaton Gandhi : Fighter

Without a Sword

 Select the correct answer from the

codes given below :

Codes :

(A) iv, ii, iii, i (B) iii, i, ii, iv

 (C) ii, iv, iii, ii (D) i, ii, iv, iii

Answer:(A)

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

the correct answer from the codes

given below :

List – I  List – II

(System ) (System)

Theorists)

1. Bertallanfy  a. a set of elements standing in

interaction

2. Hall and  b. a whole which is compounded

Fagen  of many parts

3. Easton  c. a set of objects together with

relationships between the objects and

their attributes

4. Colin  d. a set of interactions

Cherry

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) 1 4 2 3

 (B) 2 3 1 4

 (C) 4 1 2 3

 (D) 3 2 4 1

Answer:(A)

17. Who among the following presents a

‘flow model’ of political system ?

 (A) Gabriel Almond

 (B) David Easton

 (C) Morton Kaplan

 (D) Oran Young

Answer:(B)

18. Almond borrowed most of the

terminology of his approach from

 (A) Robert K. Merton

 (B) Talcott Parsons

 (C) Malinowski

 (D) Arthur Bentley

Answer:(B)

19. Who among the following attached

great importance to a balance between

the principles of equality and capacity

in political development ?

 (A) Lucian Pye

 (B) Huntington

 (C) Fred Riggs

 (D) Danil Lerner

Answer:(C)

20. Who among the following is associated

with the “will and capacity” approach

to the study of political development ?

 (A) Lucian Pye

 (B) Organski

 (C) Halpern

 (D) David Apter

Answer:(C)

21. Who among the following has

connected cultures with civilizations ?

 (A) Almond and Verba

 (B) Huntington

 (C) Lucian Pye

 (D) Edward Shils

Answer:(B)

22. “We are under the Constitution but the

Constitution is what the judges say it

is”. Which of the following countries

can this be applicable to ?

 1. India

 2. America

 3. Switzerland

 4. Australia

 Select the correct answer from the

codes given below :

Codes :

(A) 1 and 3 (B) 1 and 2

 (C) 2 and 3 (D) 3 and 4

Answer:(B)

23. Who among the following has

associated the origins of political

parties with three theories –

institutional theories, historical crisis

theories and development theories ?

 (A) La Palombara and Myron Weiner

 (B) Peter K. Merkl

 (C) Harry Eckstein

 (D) Jean Blondel

Answer:(A)

24. Which of the following statements are

not correct ?

 1. The Swiss Federal Tribunal has

the power to declare

unconstitutional a law passed by

the Federal Legislature.

 2. The Communist Party is banned

in the U.S.A.

 3. The Constitution of India on the

date of its commencement did

have a provision that the advice

of the Council of Ministers

would be binding on the

President.

 4. Tories in England are known as

Conservatives.

 Select the correct answer from the

codes given below :

Codes :

(A) 1 and 2 (B) 2 and 3

 (C) 2 and 4 (D) 1 and 3

Answer:(D)

25. “There can be no comparison between

the positions of number one and

numbers two, three or four.” Who said

this about the British Prime Minister ?

 (A) Harold Laski

 (B) Margaret Thatcher

 (C) Harold Wilson

 (D) Winston Churchill

Answer:(D)

26. Given below are two statements, one

labelled as Assertion (A) and the other

labelled as Reason (R) :

Assertion (A) : Once the leaders reach

the pinnacle of power, nothing

can bring them down.

 Reason (R) : The majority of human

beings, according to Michels, are

apathetic, indolent and slavish.

(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)

27. Which of the following pairs are not

correctly matched ?

 1. Pareto Circulation of elites

 2. Mosca Theory of the masses

 3. Michels Concept of mass mind

 4. Gasset Political formula

 Select the correct answer from the

codes given below :

Codes :

(A) 2 and 4 (B) 1 and 2

 (C) 3 and 4 (D) 2 and 3

Answer:(A)

28. Which of the following countries have

dual citizenship – National citizenship

and State citizenship ?

 (A) India and U.S.A.

 (B) India and Switzerland

 (C) Switzerland and U.S.A.

 (D) U.S.A. and U.K.

Answer:(C)

29. Which of the following statements are

not correct ?

 1. The U.S. President can seek

election to the office of President

for any number of times.

 2. The President of India has been

sending messages to Parliament.

 3. Two-thirds members of Rajya

Sabha retire every two years.

 4. The residuary powers rest with

the States in the United States of

America.

 Select the correct answer from the

codes given below :

Codes :

(A) 1, 2 and 4 (B) 1, 2 and 3

 (C) 2, 3 and 4 (D) 1, 3 and 4

Answer:(B)

30. The elite theory was first started in

 (A) the United States of America

 (B) the United Kingdom

 (C) Central and Western European

Countries

 (D) Australia

Answer:(C)

31. The Preamble of the Constitution of

India enshrines the ideals of liberty,

equality and fraternity – ideals mainly

inspired by the

 (A) Russian Revolution

 (B) Irish Revolution

 (C) French Revolution

 (D) Cultural Revolution

Answer:(C)

32. The name of a candidate for the Office

of President of India is proposed by

 (A) any five citizens of India

 (B) any five Members of the

Parliament

 (C) any fifty Members of the

Electoral College

 (D) any ten members of the Electoral

College

Answer:(C)

33. Which of the following Articles were

not part of the original Constitution of

India ?

 (i) Art. 52A (ii) Art. 51A

 (iii) Art. 14 (iv) Art. 300A

 Select the correct answer from the

codes given below :

 (A) (i) and (ii) (B) (i) and (iii)

 (C) (ii) and (iii) (D) (ii) and (iv)

Answer:(D)

34. Who among the following former

Presidents of India kept the ‘Indian

Post Office Amendment Bill’

pending ?

 (A) Zakir Hussain

 (B) V.V. Giri

 (C) Zail Singh

 (D) Dr. Shanker Dayal Sharma

Answer:(C)

35. Who said ‘All Communalism is

harmful’ ? The logic of minority

Communalism is separatism, and

majority communalism culminates in

Fascism ?

 (A) Bhikhu Parekh

 (B) T.N. Madan

 (C) Bipin Chandra

 (D) Ashish Nandy

Answer:(C)

36. Who wrote the book, “Democracy and

Discontent” ?

 (A) James Manor (B) Atul Kohli

 (C) Zoya Hasan (D) MSA Rao

Answer:(B)

37. Who emphasized the emergence of “a

market polity” in India ?

 (A) Stanley A. Kochanek

 (B) James Manor

 (C) Morris-Jones

 (D) Paul Brass

Answer:(C)

38. Who described the nature of Indian

State as ‘incremental democratic

modernization’ ?

 (A) Morris John

 (B) Rajni Kothari

 (C) Francine Frankel

 (D) Susan and Lloyd Rudolph

Answer:(B)

39. An alliance of national elites and the

entrepreneurial class as a basis of

development at the Centre does not

preclude re-distributive concessions

automatically.’ Who said ?

 (A) Partha Chatterjee

 (B) Atul Kohli

 (C) Yogendra Yadav

 (D) Paul Brass

Answer:(B)

40. Match List – I with List – II and

choose the correct answer from the

codes given below :

List – I  List – II

Books  Authors

a. Language,                      i. Jagdish

Religion and  Bhagwati

Politics

b. Party

building in a  ii. Paul Brass

New Nation

c. The Painful  iii. MyronWeiner

Transition :

Bourgeois

Democracy

in India

d. India in  iv. Achin Vanaik

Transition :

Freeing the

Economy

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) ii iii iv i

 (B) iii ii i iv

 (C) i iv iii ii

 (D) iv i ii iii

Answer:(A)

41. Identify the correct sequence in

which the following Committees

were appointed. Use the code given

below :

 i. Balwant Rai Mehta Committee

 ii. L.M. Singhvi Committee

 iii. G.V.K. Rao Committee

 iv. Ashok Mehta Committee

Codes :

(A) i, iv, iii, ii

 (B) ii, iii, i, iv

 (C) iii, ii, iv, iii

 (D) iv, i, ii, iii

Answer:(A)

42. Assertion (A) : Political parties in

India have expanded their reach

but their legitimacy has been

deeply eroded.

Reason (R) : The consolidation of the

party system at the State level

cannot be aggregated at the

National level.

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

is the correct explanation of (A).

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

43. Which among the following Articles of

the Constitution of India has ensured

through legislation the participation of

workers in management ?

 (A) Article 42

 (B) Article 43

 (C) Article 43A

 (D) Article 49A

Answer:(C)

44. Who among the following termed

Art. 356 as a “safety valve” ?

 (A) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

 (B) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

 (C) Jawaharlal Nehru

 (D) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

Answer:(B)

45. Match List – I with List – II and

choose the correct answer from the

codes given below :

List – I  List – II

Books  Authors

a. Dalit Visions :  i. Zoya Hasan

The Anti-Caste

Movement and

the Construction

of Indian Identity

b. Peasant  ii. V. Venkatesan

Movements in

India

c. Foreign Identities,  iii. Gail Omvedt

Gender

Communities and

the State (Ed.)

d. Institutionalising      iv. D.N. Dhanagre

Panchayati Raj in

India

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) ii iii iv i

 (B) iii iv i ii

 (C) i ii iii iv

 (D) iv i ii iii

Answer:(B)

46. Consider the following statements

about Civil Service in a developing

society :

 1. It should act as an instrument of

change.

 2. It should have concern for social

equity.

 3. It should have common concern

for vested interests.

 4. It should be politically neutral.

 Select the correct statements from the

codes given below :

 (A) 1, 2, 3 and 4 (B) 1, 3 and 4

 (C) 1, 2 and 4 (D) 2, 3 and 4

Answer:(C)

47. Match List – I with List – II and

choose the correct answer from the

codes given below :

List – I  List – II

a. Span of attention         i. Mooney

and Reiley

b. Scalar process  ii. F.W. Taylor

c. Human Relations          iii. V.A. Graicunas

Theory

d. Functional  iv. Elton Mayo

Foremanship

 Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) iii iv i ii

 (B) iii i iv ii

 (C) ii i iv iii

 (D) i iii ii iv

Answer:(B)

48. Which one of the following was not

included as a principle of

administration by Willoughby in his

‘Principles of Public Administration’ ?

 (A) General and overhead

administration

 (B) Coordination

 (C) Finance

 (D) Personnel administration

Answer:(B)

49. The principle of unity of command

mainly ensures

 (A) Accountability

 (B) Specialization

 (C) Acceptability

 (D) Coordination

Answer:(A)

50. Which one of the following is not one

of the main characteristics of Taylor’s

scientific management ?

 (A) Time and motion studies

 (B) Participation in decision making

 (C) Differential piece-rate system

 (D) Functional foremanship

Answer:(B)

51. Who among the following has called

Weber’s ideal type of bureaucracy as

unsuitable for developing societies ?

 (A) H. Simon

 (B) Chester I. Barnard

 (C) Fred W. Riggs

 (D) Dwight Waldo

Answer:(C)

52. The Committee on Assurances of the

Parliament of India is an instrument of

 (A) Executive Control

 (B) Judicial Control

 (C) Civil-Society Control

 (D) Legislative Control

Answer:(D)

53. According to Herbert Simon, if a

decision is directed towards

individual’s goal, it is

 (A) Organizationally rational

 (B) Personally rational

 (C) Objectively rational

 (D) Subjectively rational

Answer:(B)

54. The most logical criterion to

distinguish a line function from staff is

 (A) the functional relationship

 (B) the authority relationship

 (C) the grouping of functions

 (D) the departmentalization

Answer:(B)

55. Central Vigilance Commission was set

up on the recommendations of

 (A) First Administrative Reforms

Commission

 (B) Gorwala Committee Report

 (C) Kripalani Committee Report

 (D) Santhanam Committee Report

Answer:(D)

56. The Lokpal and Lokayukta Bill 1968

passed by the Lok Sabha lapsed

because

 (A) Rajya Sabha rejected the Bill

 (B) President withheld the Bill

 (C) Joint Committee of the two

Houses rejected the Bill

 (D) of early Dissolution of Fourth

Lok Sabha

Answer:(D)

57. Which one of the following

committee’s report said that

Community Development Programme

and National Extension Service had

failed to evoke popular enthusiasm ?

 (A) Sarkaria Committee Report

 (B) L.M. Singhvi Committee Report

 (C) G.V.K. Rao Committee Report

 (D) Balwant Rai Mehta Committee

Report

Answer:(D)

58. Which one of the following was not

included by C. Rajagopalachari in the

list of six fundamental requirements of

a good administrator ?

 (A) Character

 (B) Capacity to judge matters

 (C) Expertise in technical matters

 (D) Firmness in decision making

Answer:(C)

59. Santhanam Committee on Prevention

of Corruption was appointed in

 (A) 1961 (B) 1962

 (C) 1963 (D) 1964

Answer:(B)

60. Given below are two statements, one

labelled as Assertion (A) and the other

labelled as Reason (R).

Assertion (A) : Practical application of

unity of command is not always

possible.

 Reason (R) : Technical and

administrative tasks require

different kinds of supervision.

Select the correct answer from the

codes given below :

(A) Both (A) and (R) are individually

true and (R) is the correct

explanation of (A).

 (B) Both (A) and (R) are individually

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)

61. What is neo-realism ?

 (A) An attempt to ignore the

unpleasant realities of the world.

 (B) An attempt to restate the basic

ideas of realism in a more

‘scientific’ form.

 (C) A claim that international society

is basically orderly and peaceful.

 (D) A claim that individual human

nature is central to an

understanding of international

politics.

Answer:(B)

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

the correct answer from the codes

below :

List – I  List – II

(Author)  (Book)

a. Hedley Bull  i. Failed States

b. Noam  ii. Conflict and Defense

Chomsky

c. Robert Kaplan       iii. Anarchial Society

d. Kenneth

Boulding  iv. Monsoon

 Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) iii i iv ii

 (B) ii iii i iv

 (C) i iv iii ii

 (D) iv ii i iii

Answer:(A)

63. Arrange the following international

politics theorists in a chronological

order from the codes given below :

 (i) Reinhold Niebuhr

 (ii) Immanuel Kant

 (iii) Antonio Gramsci

 (iv) Robert W. Cox

Codes :

(A) (iii), (iv), (i), (ii)

 (B) (iv), (i), (ii), (iii)

 (C) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

 (D) (ii), (iii), (i), (iv)

Answer:(D)

64. What does RMA stand for ?

 (A) Revolution in Martial Affairs

 (B) Revolution in Military Affairs

 (C) Referendum in Military Affairs

 (D) Raison d’etat in Mass

Administration

Answer:(B)

65. What does Raison d’etat mean ?

 (A) The national interest

 (B) The State ought to act reasonably

at all times.

 (C) Citizens need to be given very

good reasons for obeying the

State.

 (D) Citizens should consume as

many raisins as possible for a

good and healthy life.

Answer:(A)

66. Why is reform of the Security Council

problematic ?

 (A) Enlarging the permanent

membership could impair

decision making.

 (B) None of the existing permanent

members are keen to give up

their seats.

 (C) It is difficult to make an

uncontroversial case for any of

the potential new permanent

members.

 (D) All of the above.

Answer:(D)

67. Structural adjustment programmes

require that

 (A) Governments of poor countries

should adopt privatization and

other ‘liberalizing’ measures.

 (B) States with weak economies

should redistribute more

resources to the poor.

 (C) Governments of poor countries

should knock down all ugly or

dilapidated buildings.

 (D) Ministers in under-performing

countries should go on diets and

keep fit.

Answer:(A)

68. Bandung Conference held in 1955 had

the participation of representatives

from

 (A) Twenty two Asian countries

 (B) Eighty Afro-Asian countries

 (C) Twenty six African countries

 (D) Twenty nine Afro-Asian countries

Answer:(D)

69. Who said, “Thus far the chief purpose

of our military establishment has been

to win wars. From now on its chief

purpose must be to avert them.” ?

 (A) Paul Nitze

 (B) George Kennan

 (C) Bernard Brodie

 (D) Robert Jervis

Answer:(C)

70. Arrange the following treaties and

agreements in a chronological order.

Select the answer from the codes given

below :

 (i) Indo-US Nuclear Treaty

 (ii) Indo-Soviet Friendship Treaty

 (iii) Tashkent Agreement

 (iv) Shimla Agreement

Codes :

(A) (iii), (ii), (iv), (i)

 (B) (ii), (iii), (i), (iv)

 (C) (i), (iv), (ii), (iii)

 (D) (iv), (i), (iii), (ii)

Answer:(A)

71. Expand SORT.

 (A) Strategic Offensive Reduction

Treaty

 (B) State Organization Replan Treaty

 (C) Strategic Order Reorganization

Treaty

 (D) Security Organization Replan

Treaty

Answer:(A)

72. Which of the following statements are

correct ?

 1. India has signed the NPT.

 2. China has not signed the NPT.

 3. India and Pakistan have not

signed the NPT.

 4. NPT has been signed by Iran,

North Korea.

 (A) All are correct.

 (B) All are false.

 (C) 3 & 4 are correct.

 (D) 1 & 2 are correct.

Answer:(C)

73. Identify which of the following are

correct statements :

 (i) India is a member of the Indian

Ocean Rim Association for

Regional Cooperation [IOR

ARC].

 (ii) [IOR-ARC] helps better relations

with Pakistan.

 (iii) It defines the Exclusive

Economic Zones.

 (iv) Indian Ocean has no sea piracy.

Codes :

(A) (i) and (ii) are correct.

 (B) (iii) and (iv) are correct.

 (C) (i) and (iii) are correct.

 (D) (ii) and (iv) are correct.

Answer:(C)

74. The Axis of evil is a phrase

deliberately used by President George

W. Bush in January 2002 to

characterize

 (A) Iran, North Korea and Iraq

 (B) Taliban, Al-Queda and LeT

 (C) Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua

 (D) Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka

Answer:(A)

75. Martin Wight emphasized three

philosophical traditions of

International politics, they are

 (A) Realism, Liberalism, Marxism

 (B) Realism, Rationalism,

Revolutionism

 (C) Radicalism, Realism, Religion

 (D) Neo-Realism, Neo-Liberalism,

Constructivism

Answer:(B)