Pol Science June 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. Which of the following book is not

authored by Karl Marx ?

 (A) German Ideology

 (B) Critique of the Gotha Programme

 (C) Paris Manuscripts

 (D) Science of Logic

Answer:(D)

2. Who wrote “Over himself, over his

own body and mind, the individual is

sovereign” ?

 (A) J.S. Mill

 (B) M.K. Gandhi

 (C) Jeremy Bentham

 (D) Robert Nozick

Answer:(A)

3. Rajni Kothari’s book Politics in India

is written on the basis of the

methodology of

 (A) Structural functionalism

 (B) Normative theory

 (C) Marxism

 (D) Utilitarianism

Answer:(A)

4. Who is the first modern political

thinker who deliberately ignores

Aristotle ?

 (A) Machiavelli (B) Bodin

 (C) Hobbes (D) Locke

Answer:(C)

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

the correct answer from the codes

given below :

List – I  List – II

(a) Dictatorship of  (i) Gramsci

the proletariat

(b) Communist Party  (ii) Marx

(c) Hegemony  (iii) Lenin

(d) Polycentricism (iv) Togliatti

Codes :

 (a) (b) (c) (d)

 (A) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)

 (B) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

 (C) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)

 (D) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)

Answer:(A)

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

the correct answer from the codes

given below :

List – I  List – II

(a) Twentieth  (i) Gandhi 

century

Jacobinism

(b) Voluntary  (ii) Aurobindo

Poverty

(c) I was born a  (iii) Ambedkar

Hindu but will

not die as one

(d) Integrated  (iv) M.N. Roy

theory of

evolution

Codes :

 (a) (b) (c) (d)

 (A) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

 (B) (iv) (i) (iii) (ii)

 (C) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)

 (D) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)

Answer:(B)

7. Gandhi described himself as a

 (A) Liberal

 (B) Socialist

 (C) Social Democrat

 (D) Philosophical Anarchist

Answer:(D)

8. The doctrine of overlapping consensus

is advocated by

 (A) Berlin (B) Barry

 (C) Nozick (D) Rawls

Answer:(D)

9. Who among the following first

developed the concept of general

systems theory ?

 (A) Ludwig Von Bertallanfy

 (B) Colin Cherry

 (C) Robert K. Merton

 (D) Talcott Parsons

Answer:(A)

10. Structural functionalism as a method

was developed to study the politics of

 (A) Advanced capitalism

 (B) Developed socialism

 (C) Modern totalitarianism

 (D) Politics of developing countries

Answer:(D)

11. C. Wright Mill’s ‘The Power Elite’ is a

study of the contemporary politics of

 (A) China

 (B) The United States of America

 (C) The Soviet Union

 (D) Great Britain

Answer:(B)

12. Who among the following identified

the crises in political development on

the basis of his study of England ?

 (A) A.F.K. Organski

 (B) Lucian W. Pye

 (C) Edward Shils

 (D) David Apter

Answer:(B)

13. Which one of the following pairs is not

correctly matched ?

(A) C.W. Mills The Power Elite

(B) T.B.

Bottomore

Elites and Society

(C) Pareto The Ruling Class

(D) Ortega Y

Gasset

The Revolt of the

Masses

Answer:(C)

14. Who among the following postulated

the law “officials make work for each

other” ?

 (A) Max Weber (B) F.M. Marx

 (C) H. Finer (D) N. Parkinson

Answer:(D)

15. Which of the following pairs is not

correct ?

(A) U.S.A. Double

citizenship

(B) India Procedure

established by law

(C) Australia Unitary form of

Government

(D) Switzerland Plural Executive

Answer:(C)

16. Michels’ Iron law of oligarchy was

formulated on the basis of the study of

 (A) German Social Democratic Party

 (B) British Labour Party

 (C) Democratic Party of the U.S.A.

 (D) Communist Party of the Soviet

Union

Answer:(A)

17. Montesquieu’s theory of separation of

powers emphasises primarily on

 (A) Accountability

 (B) Efficiency

 (C) Transparency

 (D) Liberty

 Each of the following four items

consist of two statements, one labelled

as Assertion (A) and the other labelled

as Reason (R).

 (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:(D)

18. Assertion (A) : The Information

Technology has made Staff

Agency indispensable.

Reason (R) : Staff Agency assists

the Line Agency in decision

making.

Answer:(B)

19. Assertion (A) : While declaring war

on terrorism the US asserted that

the states which were not on the

side of the US were against it.

Reason (R) : In the wake of war on

terrorism the US denied states

the liberty to be neutral.

Answer:(A)

20. Assertion (A) : Ambedkar was in

favour of separate electorate for

depressed classes.

Reason (R) : He was in agreement

with Gandhi.

Answer:(C)

21. Assertion (A) : The presidential

system is successful only in the

U.S.A.

Reason (R) : The United States of

America is the only nation with

minor contradictions that ensures

the success of the presidential

system

Answer:(A)

22. Which one of the following was not

associated with the Hindustan Republic

Association ?

 (A) Chandrashekhar Azad

 (B) Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee

 (C) Aurobindo Ghosh

 (D) Bhagat Singh

Answer:(C)

23. Who gave the Indian National

Congress the Constitution and made it

a mass and cadre party ?

 (A) Tilak

 (B) Gokhale

 (C) Motilal Nehru

 (D) Gandhi

Answer:(D)

24. Who appoints the Inter-State Council ?

 (A) The President of India

 (B) The Union Cabinet

 (C) The Prime Minister

 (D) The Union Home Minister

Answer:(A)

25. Identify the States whose State

Assemblies are meet at places other

than the State capital :

 (A) Jammu-Kashmir & Madhya

Pradesh

 (B) Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka

 (C) Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh

 (D) Jammu-Kashmir andMaharashtra

Answer:(D)

26. Which amendment of the Constitution

of India limits the number of

Ministers ?

 (A) 73rd (B) 86th

 (C) 87th (D) 91st

Answer:(D)

27. Which one of the following

committees is not associated with

Panchayati Raj in India ?

 (A) Sadiq Ali Committee

 (B) Dinesh Goswami Committee

 (C) L.M. Singhvi Committee

 (D) P.K. Thungan Committee

Answer:(B)

28. Identify the correct sequence in which

the following Deputy Prime Ministers

were appointed in India ?

 (i) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

 (ii) Ch. Devi Lal

 (iii) Ch. Charan Singh

 (iv) Morarji Desai

Codes :

 (A) (i), (iii), (iv), (ii)

 (B) (i), (iv), (ii), (iii)

 (C) (iv), (i), (ii), (iii)

 (D) (i), (iv), (iii), (iv)

Answer:(D)

29. Who of the following constituted an

oligrachy within the Constituent

Assembly of India ?

 (A) Nehru, Patel, Prasad, Azad

 (B) Ambedkar, B.N. Rao, K.M.

Munshi, Nehru

 (C) Patel, Azad, Munshi, Ambedkar

 (D) Krishnamachari, Pannikar,

Nehru, Patel

Answer:(A)

30. Who describes Indian economy as

“Bullock Cart Capitalism” ?

 (A) Rajni Kothari

 (B) Atul Kohli

 (C) Granville Austin

 (D) Lloyd and Sussane Rudolph

Answer:(D)

31. Who among the following defines

Public Administration as “the activities

of the Executive Branches of the

National, State and Local

Government”. ?

 (A) Morstein Marx

 (B) Luther Gullick

 (C) Herbert A. Simon

 (D) Marshal E. Dimock

Answer:(C)

32. Public Accounts Committee has the

following Members. Tick the correct

answer :

Lok SabhaRajya Sabha Total

(A) 10 5 15

(B) 15 7 22

(C) 11 5 16

(D) 17 10 27

Answer:(B)

33. ‘Span of Control’ is also known as

 (A) The Repair Boss

 (B) The Gang Boss

 (C) Military Type of Foreman

 (D) Business Frontline

Answer:(C)

34. The word ‘Bureaucracy’ was first

coined by

 (A) Max Weber

 (B) Alexander Pope

 (C) M. Crozier

 (D) Vincent de Gournay

Answer:(D)

35. Which one of the following is the

correct function of Staff Agency ?

 (A) Issuing orders to the

subordinates

 (B) Controlling the activities of the

subordinates

 (C) Advising the Chief Executive

 (D) Providing Institutional Services

Answer:(C)

36. Which one of the following statements

is not correct with regard to Riggs’

Perspective of Societies ?

 (A) Fused societies are traditional.

 (B) Developed societies are

diffracted societies.

 (C) Ascriptive values are found in

diffracted societies.

 (D) Traditional societies have

ascriptive values.

Answer:(C)

37. The Informal Channel of

Communication is also known as

 (A) Feedback (B) Grapevine

 (C) Loopline (D) Nerveline

Answer:(B)

38. Match the thinkers with the concepts :

Thinker Concept

(a) F.W. Taylor  (i) Scalar

(b) Chester Bernard  (ii) Dissatisfier

(c) Henry Fayol  (iii) Zone of

Acceptance

(d) Frederic  (iv) Incentive system

Herzberg

Select the correct order :

 Codes :

 (a) (b) (c) (d)

 (A) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)

 (B) (iii) (ii) (iv) (i)

 (C) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)

 (D) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)

Answer:(D)

39. Who stated that “Budget is a series of

Goals with price tags attached” ?

 (A) Wildavsky (B) Walpole

 (C) Betram Gross (D) Allen Schick

Answer:(A)

40. Which one of the following articles of

the Constitution empowers Parliament

to create an All India Service ?

 (A) Article 300 (B) Article 312

 (C) Article 320 (D) Article 410

Answer:(B)

41. Which of the following resulted from

Bretton Woods Conference ?

 (A) United Nations

 (B) League of Nations

 (C) Institutions meant for checking

nuclear proliferation

 (D) World Bank and IMF

Answer:(D)

42. Which of the following is not the basic

principle of Hans J. Morgenthou’s

realism ?

 (A) Politics is rooted in the human

nature

 (B) Politics is autonomous

 (C) National interest is defined in

terms of power

 (D) Politics is governed by Universal

moral values.

Answer:(D)

43. Marshall Plan was meant for

 (A) Building the economics of the

third world

 (B) Rebuilding Western European

economics

 (C) Rebuilding the economics of the

North-American countries

 (D) Building the economics of

African countries

Answer:(B)

44. Russia has been given permanent seat

on the UN Security Council by virtue

of its being

 (A) Second most powerful country in

the world

 (B) Successor State to the former

Soviet Union.

 (C) Largest country in the world in

terms of area

 (D) One of the oldest civilisations in

the world.

Answer:(B)

45. The major argument of Neo-realism of

Kenneth Waltz is that

 (A) Structures are more important

than actors.

 (B) Actors play more crucial role

than structures.

 (C) Human nature is crucial element

in politics.

 (D) The states override the

constraints imposed by

international structures.

Answer:(A)

46. Non-reciprocity principle of India’s

policy towards neighbouring countries

envisages

 (A) hegemonic designs towards

neighbouring countries.

 (B) efforts for improving ties with

the neighbouring countries

without reciprocity.

 (C) non-aligned policy posture in the

South Asian context.

 (D) the disciplining of the

neighbouring countries.

Answer:(B)

47. What is the correct chronological order

of the developments listed below ?

 (i) Indo-Soviet Treaty of Friendship

 (ii) India’s first Nuclear Explosion at

Pokhran

 (iii) Cuban Missile Crises

 (iv) Adoption of structural

adjustment programme of India

 Select the correct answer from the

following codes :

 (A) (ii), (iv), (iii), (i)

 (B) (iii), (i), (ii), (iv)

 (C) (iv), (ii), (i), (iii)

 (D) (i), (iv), (iii), (ii)

Answer:(B)

48. Assertion (A) : WTO pleads that free

trade brings prosperity for all and

therefore should be promoted.

Reason (R) : Integration of the

countries with global economy

through the system of trade helps

them to export goods abroad as

also import goods which they

need.

 (A) (A) and (R) are true and (R) is a

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)

49. 14th SAARC Summit held in New

Delhi in 2007, stressed

 (A) Improving intra-regional

connectivity

 (B) Commitment to bilateralism

within SAARC.

 (C) Connecting SAARC with other

regional organisations

 (D) Not to extend SAARC

membership

Answer:(A)

50. Collective Security System of the UN

is based on the principle of

 (A) All for one, one for all

 (B) Imposing sanctions against the

belligerent state unilaterally

 (C) Maintenance of security by the

major powers

 (D) Balance of power to be

maintained by state of

equilibrium.

Answer:(A)