PAPER-II
POLITICAL SCIENCE
December 2013
Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions of two (2) marks each. All
questions are compulsory.
1. Who among the following is not a
principal character in Plato’s
Republic ?
(A) Polemarchus (B) Adeimantus
(C) Protagoras (D) Glaucon
Answer:(C)
2. Match List-I with List-II and select
the correct answer from the codes
given below the lists :
List – I List – II
(Authors) (Books)
a. A. Arblaster i. Participation and Democratic
Theory
b. C.B. Mac ii. Models of Democracy
Pherson
c. C. Pateman iii. The Real World of Democracy
d. D. Held iv. Democracy
Codes :
a b c d
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) iv iii i ii
(C) ii i iv iii
(D) iii iv ii i
Answer:(B)
3. Identify the correct sequence of
Marx’s Writings in ascending order :
i. Contribution to the Critique of
Political Economy
ii. Poverty of Philosophy
iii. Thesis on Feuerbach
iv. Communist Manifesto
Select the correct answer from the
codes given below :
Codes :
(A) i, ii, iii, iv (B) ii, iii, iv, i
(C) iii, ii, iv, i (D) iv, i, ii, iii
Answer:(C)
4. Given below are two statements, one
labelled as Assertion (A) and the
other labelled as Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : For behaviouralists,
it was better to be wrong than
vague.
Reason (R) : It was better to be
vague than non-relevantly
precise.
Codes :
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and
(R) is the right explanation of
(A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but
(R) is not the correct
explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
(D) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
Answer:(*)
5. Who said, “Each person possesses an
inviolability founded on justice that
even the welfare of society as a
whole cannot override” ?
(A) John Rawls
(B) Robert Nozick
(C) Friedrich Hayek
(D) Habermas
Answer:(A)
6. Who was the founder of
Utilitarianism ?
(A) Bentham
(B) James Mill
(C) David Hume
(D) Priestley
Answer:(A)
7. Which one of the following writings
is not written by Mao ?
(A) On New Democracy
(B) On Coalition Government
(C) People’s War
(D) On People’s Democratic
Dictatorship
Answer:(C)
8. Why did Gandhiji go to South
Africa ?
(A) On invitation by the Indians in
South Africa.
(B) To study Bar-at-Law.
(C) To fight a case of a Gujarati
Business-man.
(D) To visit South Africa with
family.
Answer:(C)
9. Who founded the ‘Mexican Socialist
Workers’ Party’ which was later
named as ‘Mexican Communist
Party’ ?
(A) Jaya Prakash Narayan
(B) B.R. Ambedkar
(C) M.N. Roy
(D) Lenin
Answer:(C)
10. Whom did Lord Minto describe as
the most ‘dangerous man’ ?
(A) B.G. Tilak
(B) Aurobindo Ghosh
(C) Gandhiji
(D) Sardar Patel
Answer:(B)
11. Arrange in ascending order the
following stages of Political
Development as enunciated by
A.F.K. Organski. Select the correct
answer from codes given below :
i. Primitive National Unification
ii. Abundance
iii. Industrialisation
iv. National Welfare
Codes :
(A) i, ii, iii, iv
(B) i, iii, ii, iv
(C) i, iii, iv, ii
(D) iv, ii, iii, i
Answer:(C)
12. Who among the following talks of
pseudo-pressure groups ?
(A) Jean Blondel
(B) Almond
(C) Maurice Duverger
(D) V.O. Key
Answer:(A,C)
13. Match List-I with List-II and select
the correct answer from the codes
given below :
List – I List – II
(Thinkers) (Ideas)
a. Karl Marx i. State of paternalistic bond
between peasantryand property owners
b. Chalmers ii. Aggregate-psychological perspective
Johnson
c. Ted Gurr iii.Revolution as a process through which structural
inequalities could be eliminated
d. Barrington iv.Value co-ordinated
Moore social system model
Codes :
a b c d
(A) i iii ii iv
(B) ii i iii iv
(C) iii iv ii i
(D) iv i iii ii
Answer:(C)
14. Match List-I with List-II and select
the correct answer from the codes
given below the list.
List – I List – II
(Type of (Principal Attributes)
Government)
a. Military i. Based on deference
Regime
b. Dynastic ii. Based on coercion
Regime
c. Psuedo iii. Trappings of a liberal
Democracy democracy like periodic elections but
power rests in the hands of oligarchy.
d. Liberal iv. Voluntary participation in
Democracy government process is extensive
Codes :
a b c d
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) ii i iii iv
(C) iv iii ii i
(D) iii i iv ii
Answer:(B)
15. The process of Socialisation in
Modern Society is
1. Specific
2. Universalistic
3. Instrumental
4. Ascriptive
Select the correct answer from the
codes given below :
Codes :
(A) 1, 2, 3 (B) 2, 3, 4
(C) 3, 4, 1 (D) 4, 2, 1
Answer:(A)
16. Which one of the following is not a
totalitarian form of Government ?
(A) Military Government
(B) Fascist Government
(C) Communist Government
(D) Parliamentary form of
Government
Answer:(D)
17. Who among the following writers
classified Elites into broad types ?
(i) Organising and directing elites.
(ii) Informally organised and
diffused elites
(A) Vilfredo Pareto
(B) Robert Michaels
(C) Gaetano Mosca
(D) Karl Mannheim
Answer:(D)
18. Who among the following classified
parties under competitive system into
two major categories ?
(i) Turnover and Hegemonic
(ii) Ideological and Pragmatic
(A) Myron Weiner and Lapalombara
(B) G.A. Almond and Verba
(C) Neil A. Mcdonald
(D) Peter H. Merkel
Answer:(A)
19. The concept of dependency evolved
in the 1960s in
(A) Europe
(B) Africa
(C) Asia
(D) Latin America
Answer:(D)
20. Match List-I with List-II and select
the correct answer from codes given
below :
List – I List – II
(Books) (Authors)
a. Approaches to i. R. Young
the Study of
Politics
b. Dynamics of ii. C.E. Black
Modernization
c. Influencing iii. R. Rose
Voters
d. Studies in iv. J.S. Coleman
Political
Development
Codes :
a b c d
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) ii iii iv i
(C) iv iii ii i
(D) iii iv ii i
Answer:(A)
21. Given below are two statements, one
labelled as Assertion (A) and the
other labelled as Reason (R). Choose
the correct answer from the codes :
Assertion (A) : Secularization does
not necessarily imply that
people have become anti-
religious, or that religion has
disappeared from both the
public domain and the domain
of personal belief.
Reason (R) : Religion is not just one,
and not necessarily the most
important way in which people
understand themselves and
their relationships.
Codes :
(A) Both (A) and (R) are correct
and (R) is the correct
explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are correct,
but (R) is not the correct
explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is correct, but (R) is false.
(D) (R) is correct, but (A) is false.
Answer:(A)
22. Given below are two statements, one
labelled as Assertion (A) and the
other labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion(A) : The 1980s, a period
of great turbulence in Indian
Politics, marked the appearance
of several new political parties.
Reason (R) : National Parties got
marginalized or became adjuncts
to State Parties in many States.
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) (R) is true, but (A) is false.
Answer:(A)
23. Arrange the following in their
chronological sequence :
i. Nehru Committee Report
ii. Quit India Movement
iii. Civil Disobedience Movement
iv. Declaration of Complete
Independence
Codes :
(A) ii, i, iv, iii (B) iii, ii, iv, i
(C) i, iv, iii, ii (D) iv, ii, i, iii
Answer:(C)
24. In which of the following case the
Supreme Court of India held that, the
power of amendment belonged to the
Parliament, and this power was an
unlimited one ?
(A) Sankari Prasad V. Union of
India
(B) Bela Banerjee and Others V.
State of West Bengal
(C) Kesavananda Bharati V. State
of Kerala
(D) Romesh Thapar V. State of
Madras
Answer:(A)
25. Which one of the following States does
not have a Bicameral Legislature ?
(A) Uttar Pradesh (B) Bihar
(C) Maharashtra (D) Kerala
Answer:(D)
26. Identify the correct chronological
order of the following Prime Minister/
Chief Minister of J & K :
(A) Sheikh Abdullah, Bakshi
Ghulam Mohammad, Farooq
Abdullah, Omar Abdullah.
(B) Sheikh Abdullah, G.M. Sadiq,
Mir Qasim, Farooq Abdullah.
(C) Sheikh Abdullah, G.M. Sadiq
Shamsuddin, Mufti Mohammad
Sayeed.
(D) Sheikh Abdulla, Bakshi Ghulam
Mohammad, Shamsuddin,
G.M. Sadiq.
Answer:(D)
27. Match List-I with List-II and select
the correct answer from the codes
given below :
List – I List – II
(Conspiracy (Revolutionaries
Cases) Punished)
a. Nasik case i. Sachindranath Sanyal
(1909-10)
b. Benares case ii. Ram Prasad Bismil
(1916)
c. Kakori case iii. Bhagat Singh
(1924)
d. Lahore case iv. Vinayak Savarkar
(1929-30)
Codes :
a b c d
(A) i iii iv ii
(B) i ii iii iv
(C) iv i ii iii
(D) iii iv i ii
Answer:(C)
28. Which one of the following is not a
sufficient ground for convening a joint
sitting of both Houses of Parliament ?
(A) Rejection of a bill by one
House of the Parliament when
the other House has passed it.
(B) Both Houses have finally
disagreed as to the amendments
to be made in a bill.
(C) More than six months has
elapsed from the date of the
reception of the Bill by the
other House without the Bill
being passed by it.
(D) President has refused to give
his assent to the Bill.
Answer:(D)
29. Who is the author of Federal India :
A Design for Change ?
(A) Balveer Arora
(B) K.C. Wheare
(C) Rasheeduddin Khan
(D) Ronald Watts
Answer:(C)
30. Who among the following has made
pioneering contribution in the area of
subaltern studies ?
(A) Ramachandra Guha
(B) Ranjit Guha
(C) Rajni Kothari
(D) James Manor
Answer:(B)
31. Who among the following questioned
the claim that Public Administration
is a Science ?
(A) Robert Dahl
(B) Luther Gulick
(C) L. Urwick
(D) Frank Goodnou
Answer:(A)
32. F.W. Taylor, the founding father of
Scientific Management Movement,
propounded the theory which was
conceived to be a scientific
methodology of
(A) Careful observation
(B) Managerial techniques
(C) Generalization
(D) All of the above
Answer:(D)
33. Who among the following is not a
protagonist of the managerial view of
Public Administration ?
(A) Simon
(B) Smithburg
(C) Gulick
(D) Henry Fayol
Answer:(A)
34. Match List-I with List-II and select
the correct answer from the codes
given below :
List – I List – II
a. Line 1. Collection of data
Agency and its analysis.
b. General 2. Maintenance of
Staff diary of different engagements of
line officials.
c. Specialised 3. Functions directly contributing to
Staff goal achievement
d. Personal 4. Looking after Personnel
Staff Administration
Codes :
a b c d
(A) 3 4 1 2
(B) 2 3 4 1
(C) 1 2 3 4
(D) 4 1 2 3
Answer:(A)
35. The role of the Finance Commission
in Centre-State fiscal relations has
been undermined by the
(A) The State Governments
(B) The Zonal Councils
(C) The Planning Commission
(D) The Election Commission
Answer:(C)
36. To which of the following classes of
job in the public service in India,
merit-cum-seniority principle is
adopted in promotion ?
(A) Class-I (B) Class-II
(C) Class-III (D) Class-I and II
Answer:(D)
37. Which of the following, according to
Kautilya, are the principles of good
governance for a king ?
1. Merging individuality with
duties.
2. Leading a disciplined life with
a code of conduct.
3. Maintaining law and order.
4. Replacing bad ministers by
lekhaks (writers).
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, 2, 3 and 4
Answer:(B)
38. Given below are two statements, one
labelled as Assertion (A) and the
other labelled as Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : Position –
classification is the foundation
of modern personnel
administration.
Reason (R) : Position –
classification allows
rationalization in Civil
Services.
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)
39. Given below are two statements, one
labelled as Assertion (A) and the
other labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A) : The relation between
a generalist and a specialist is
one of a senior and a
subordinate.
Reason (R) : A specialist is required
to assist the generalist in the
formulation and implementation
of public policy.
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:(D)
40. Given below are two statements, one
labelled as Assertion (A) and the
other labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A) : Public Administration
is generally characterised by an
absence of profit motive.
Reason (R) : Governmental activities
are not undertaken simply to
maximize profit but to promote
societal welfare.
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)
41. Given below are two statements, one
labelled as Assertion (A) and the
other labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A) : In the Post Soviet
era, Nuclear armed states are
likely to have military run or
weak civilian governments.
Reason (R) : They will lack the
positive constraining mechanisms
of civilian control.
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:(*)
42. Where is India’s Hi-Tech Naval Base
“Project Varsha” located ?
(A) Rambilli
(B) Ezhimalai
(C) Araku Valley
(D) Kochi
Answer:(A)
43. “Atoms for Peace” was a
disarmament plan put forward by
which world leader ?
(A) J. Nehru (B) Krushchev
(C) Eisenhower (D) Kennedy
Answer:(C)
44. Match List-I with List-II and select
the correct answer from the codes
given below :
List – I List – II
(Thinkers) (Concepts)
a. William Cohen i. New Wars
b. Martin Shaw ii. Revolution
in Military
Affairs
c. Raymond iii. Degenerate Wars
Aron
d. Mary Kaldor iv. Hyperbolic Wars
Codes :
a b c d
(A) ii iii iv i
(B) i ii iii iv
(C) iii iv i ii
(D) iv i ii iii
Answer:(A)
45. Who created the Global
Environmental Facility (GEF) as an
international mechanism specifically
for funding environmental projects in
developing countries ?
(A) IMF (B) UNDP
(C) UNEP (D) World Bank
Answer:(D)
46. Chronologically arrange the
following treaties in the correct
ascending order :
i. The Charter of the UN
ii. The Treaty of Westphalia
iii. Treaties of Utrecht
iv. Treaty of Paris
Select the correct answer from the
codes given below :
Codes :
(A) iv, i, ii, iii (B) iii, iv, i, ii
(C) ii, iii, iv, i (D) i, ii, iii, iv
Answer:(C)
47. What are the four defining elements
of a regime ?
(A) Principles, Norms, Rules,
Decision making procedures.
(B) Principles, Rules, Regulations,
Procedures.
(C) Norms, Rules, Regulations,
Precedents.
(D) Principles, Precedents,
Procedures, Practices.
Answer:(A)
48. Chronologically arrange the
following milestones in the Women’s
movement in the correct ascending
order.
i. Mexico City – UN Conference
ii. Copenhagen – UN Conference
iii. Beijing
iv. Nairobi
Select the correct answer from the
codes given below :
Codes :
(A) iv, i, iii, ii
(B) i, ii, iv, iii
(C) ii, iii, i, iv
(D) iii, iv, ii, i
Answer:(B)
49. When did India and Nepal sign the
revised Double Taxation Avoidance
Agreement (DTAA) ?
(A) 2011 (B) 2012
(C) 2010 (D) 2009
Answer:(A)
50. Which of the following countries are
included in ASEAN Plus Three ?
(A) China, India, Japan.
(B) China, South Korea, Russia
(C) China, Russia, Japan
(D) China, Japan, South Korea
Answer:(D)
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