Pol Science June 2013 Paper III Solved (Conduct 30th June 2013)

June 2013

POLITICAL SCIENCE

PAPER – III

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

questions are compulsory.

1. Who among the following said that

Political theory contains factors of

three kinds-the factual, the causal and

the valuational ?

 (A) Leo Strauss (B) Dunning

 (C) G.H. Sabine (D) Ebenstein

Answer:(C)

2. Who among the following said that

political theory is in the doghouse in

the 1950’s ?

 (A) Easton (B) Laslett

 (C) R.A. Dahl (D) Riemer

Answer:(D)

3. Who among the following said, “We

can not shed our values in the way

we remove our coats” ?

 (A) Peter Laslett

 (B) David Easton

 (C) Isiah Berlin

 (D) Robert Dahl

Answer:(B)

4. Who among the following is

associated with the resurgence of

political theory ?

 (A) David Easton

 (B) Alfred Cobban

 (C) Vogelin

 (D) Laslett

Answer:(C)

5. Which one of the following

statements is false ?

 (A) The term ‘Liberal’ has referred

to a class of free men who are

neither serfs nor slaves.

 (B) The term ‘liberalism’ was first

employed in Spain in 1812.

 (C) Classical liberalism and

modern liberalism have

differences.

 (D) The moral minuses of the anti-

marketeers are the moral

minuses of the pro-marketeers.

Answer:(D)

6. Whose ideas are sometimes referred

as ‘Manchester Liberalism’ ?

 (A) Adam Smith and David

Ricardo

 (B) Richard Cobden and John

Bright

 (C) John Locke and J.S. Mill

 (D) Berlin and McPherson

Answer:(B)

7. Who said, “My own existence is a

social activity and activity and mind

are social in their context as well as

in their origin, they are social activity

and social mind” ?

 (A) Robert Owen (B) Karl Marx

 (C) Hegel (D) J.S. Mill

Answer:(B)

8. From whom did Hobbes borrow the

principle of resolutive composite ?

 (A) Galileo (B) Euclid

 (C) Descartes (D) Aristotle

Answer:(A)

9. Who said, “J.J. Rousseau is the

Father of Jacobin despotism, of

Caesarian dictatorship and the

inspirer of the absolute doctrines of

Kant and of Hegel” ?

 (A) H.J. Laski (B) Duguit

 (C) Berlin (D) Karl Popper

Answer:(B)

10. Who among the following made the

State a moral institution with a moral

end ?

 (A) Bentham (B) Machiavelli

 (C) James Mill (D) J.S. Mill

Answer:(D)

11. Who among the following formed

“The League of Radical Congressmen” ?

 (A) M.K. Gandhi

 (B) M.N. Roy

 (C) Aurobindo

 (D) B.R. Ambedkar

Answer:(B)

12. Which one among the following is

not written by Aurobindo ?

 (A) Life Divine

 (B) Essays on the Gita

 (C) Yoga : Concept and Practice

 (D) The Ideals of Human Unity

Answer:(C)

13. Identify the correct sequence of the

events undertaken by Mahatma Gandhi.

 (i) Organised the industrial

workers in Ahmedabad for

higher wages.

 (ii) Protest against the Indigo

planters at Champaran.

 (iii) Satyagraha movement in Kaira

against the collection of land

revenue.

 (iv) Protest against the Asiatic

Registration Act.

 Select the correct answer from the

codes given below :

Codes :

 (A) (iii), (iv), (ii), (i)

 (B) (iv), (ii), (iii), (i)

 (C) (ii), (iii), (iv), (i)

 (D) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Answer:(B)

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

select the correct answer from the

codes given below :

 List – I   List – II

 (Authors)  (Books)

a. R.J.  i. Spheres of Justice

 Bernstein  : A Defence of Pluralism and Equality

b. M. Sandel ii. The Restructuring

of Social and

Political theory

c. M. Waltzer  iii. Contemporary Political  philosophy

d. W. Kymlicka  iv. Liberalism and the Limits of Justice

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) i ii iii iv

 (B) iii iv i ii

 (C) ii iv i iii

 (D) iv i iii ii

Answer:(C)

15. Given below are two statements, one

labelled as Assertion (A) and the

other labelled as Reason (R).

Assertion (A) : For Daniel Bell

there is the ‘end of ideology’.

 Reason (R) : This is to validate a

single ideology and to discredit

every other ideology.

Select the correct answer from the

codes given below :

 (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)

16. Structuration as a concept is a way of

analyzing the relationship between

structures and actors was suggested

by

 (A) Talcott Parsons

 (B) Anthony Giddens

 (C) Robert Nisbet

 (D) Michael Focault

Answer:(B)

17. Match List – I with List – II and

select the correct answer from the

codes given below :

List – I  List – II

(Theories of  (Propounders)

Political Parties)

a. Development  i. Giovomin Sartori

Theory

b. Spatial theory  ii. Joseph la Palombara

c. Re-alignment  iii. Maurice Duverger

theory

d. Permeation  iv. Bunham and Sandquist

theory

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) i ii iii iv

 (B) ii i iv iii

 (C) iii iv ii i

 (D) iv ii i iii

Answer:(B)

18. According to Almond, which one is not

a condition for political development ?

 (A) Availability of resources

 (B) Adequate response to challenges

 (C) Overlapping of stages of

development

 (D) Congruent development of the

other social systems

Answer:(C)

19. Corporatism is an approach that is

centrally concerned about

 (A) Structures of the public sector

 (B) Functions of the political

system

 (C) Class conflict is interest based

 (D) Stresses the state and society

interactions, especially the role of

social interests influencing policy

Answer:(D)

20. Match List – I with List – II and

select the correct answer from the

codes given below :

List – I  List – II

(Thinkers)  (Books)

a. Anthony i. An Economic

Downs  theory of Democracy

b. Gabrial  ii. The Three Worlds of

Almond and  Welfare Capitalism

Sidney Verba

c. Stein Rokkan iii. The Civic Culture

d. Gosta Esping- iv. Citizens, Elections,

Anderson  Parties

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) i iii iv ii

 (B) ii i iii iv

 (C) iii iv ii i

 (D) iv ii i iii

Answer:(A)

21. The term “Cooperative Federalism”

emerged after

 (A) The First World War

 (B) At the time of New Deal

Legislations in the USA.

 (C) As part of the Soviet

Constitution of 1937.

 (D) After the Second World War.

Answer:(D)

22. Which one of the following is not a

feature of the Bipolar Party System ?

 (A) Elements of both multi and two

party systems

 (B) Coalition government

 (C) Alternation of power between

parties

 (D) Two large coalitions composed

of several parties.

Answer:(X)

23. In the electoral studies, rational

choice models have been the most

popular which is developed by

 (A) Elinor Ostrom

 (B) Hardin

 (C) Karl Deutsch

 (D) Anthony Downs

Answer:(D)

24. Conveyance theory between

advanced capitalism and developed

socialism was propounded by

 (A) Huntington (B) Putman

 (C) Miliband (D) Marcuge

Answer:(D)

25. Who among the following elite

theorists said, “A man is effective in

society as a whole, not so much

because of his individual qualities as

because of the social energies which

have been deposited in him by the

mass” ?

 (A) Pareto (B) Gasset

 (C) Michels (D) Mosca

Answer:(B)

26. What is the correct chronological

sequence of Edward Shils’ categories

of political system ?

 (i) Political Democracy

 (ii) Tutelary Democracy

 (iii) Modernizing Oligarchy

 (iv) Totalitarian Oligarchy

 (v) Traditional Oligarchy

 Select the correct answer from the

codes given below :

 (A) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v)

 (B) (i), (ii), (iv), (iii) and (v)

 (C) (i), (ii), (iv), (v) and (iii)

 (D) (ii), (i), (iii), (v) and (iv)

Answer:(A)

27. Assertion (A) : Samir amin argued

that Marx foresaw that no

colonial power would be able

to continue for long the local

development of capitalism.

 Reason (R) : This was because of

a dearth of knowledge of non-

European societies.

Select the correct answer from the

codes given below :

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)

28. Which of the following statements

about the US President are true ?

 (i) The US President can seek re-

election only once.

 (ii) He can be impeached for treason,

bribery and other crimes.

 (iii) At the impeachment trials the

Chief Justice of the Supreme

Court presides.

 (iv) Both the President and the

Vice-President can be from the

same state.

 Select the correct answer from the

codes given below :

Codes :

 (A) (i), (ii) & (iii)

 (B) (i), (iii) & (iv)

 (C) (ii), (iii) & (iv)

 (D) (i), (ii) & (iv)

Answer:(A)

29. The politics of sex is no longer on the

fringe of politics, but it is a central

concern for policy and law makers.

Which category will this issue be

placed under ?

 (A) Political Development

 (B) Political Modernization

 (C) Political Culture

 (D) Political Elites

Answer:(C)

30. Who holds the view that bureaucracy

as an organisation cannot correct its

behaviour by learning from its errors ?

 (A) M. Crozier (B) H.J. Laski

 (C) F.M. Marx (D) Max Weber

Answer:(A)

31. Who said the following :

 “New light has been poured on us,

teaching us the new lesson that Kings

are made for the people and not the

people for the Kings.”

 (A) Mahatma Gandhi

 (B) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

 (C) Dadabhai Naoroji

 (D) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Answer:(C)

32. Who among the following had

favoured Panchayati Raj System

by giving the following statement in

the Indian Constituent Assembly ?

“…in the interest of democracy, the

villages may be trained in the art of

self-government… We must be able

to reform the villages and introduce

democratic principles of government

there...”

 (A) Ananthasayanam Ayyangar

 (B) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

 (C) B.N. Rao

 (D) Jawaharlal Nehru

Answer:(A)

33. Which of the following is not within the

jurisdiction of the State High Court ?

 (A) It can hear appeals from lower

courts.

 (B) It can issue writs for restoring

Fundamental Rights.

 (C) It can decide the river water

dispute between the two states.

 (D) It exercises superitendance and

control over courts below it.

Answer:(C)

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

select the correct answer from the

codes given below :

 List – I  List – II

 (Lok Sabha)  (Speaker)

a. 3rd Lok Sabha  i. Shivraj Patil

b. 5th Lok Sabha  ii. Balram Jakhar

c. 7th Lok Sabha  iii. G.S. Dhillon,

Bali Ram

Bhagat

d. 10th Lok Sabha  iv. Hukam Singh

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) iv iii ii i

 (B) iv i ii iii

 (C) i ii iii iv

 (D) iii iv ii i

Answer:(A)

35. Who characterized India as “A

million mutinies” in 1990 ?

 (A) V.S. Naipaul

 (B) M.S.A. Rao

 (C) Ghanshyam Shah

 (D) Tedd Gurr

Answer:(A)

36. “Roses in December” is the

autobiography of

 (A) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

 (B) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan

 (C) Hakim Ajmal Khan

Answer:(D)

 (D) Mohammad Karim Chhagala

37. Match List – I with List – II and

select the correct answer from the

codes given below :

List – I  List – II

(Regional  (State of Origin)

Political Party)

a. Rashtriya Lok  i. Bihar

Dal

b. Indian  ii. Karnataka

National Lok

Dal

c. Janta Dal  iii. Uttar Pradesh

(Secular)

d. Rashtriya  iv. Haryana

Janta Dal

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) iii iv ii i

 (B) i ii iii iv

 (C) iv iii ii i

 (D) iv i iii ii

Answer:(A)

38. Who among the following is

Editor/Author of the book “The New

Regional Politics of Development”.

 (A) Reinhard Bendix

 (B) Arie M.M. Kacowiez

 (C) Anthony Payne

 (D) Partha Chatterjee

Answer:(C)

39. Who among the following has

described India as “weak-strong

state” ?

 (A) Lloyd and Susan Rudolph

 (B) Gunnar Myrdal

 (C) Rajni Kothari

 (D) K.C. Wheare

Answer:(A)

40. Who has called India a Democratic

Developmental State ?

 (A) Paul Brass

 (B) James Manor

 (C) Christopher Jefferlot

 (D) Atul Kohli

Answer:(B)

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

select the correct answer from the

codes given below :

List – I  List – II

(States)  (No. of Lok Sabha seats reserved for

the Scheduled tribes)

a. Andhra  i. 4

Pradesh

b. Chhattisgarh  ii. 5

c. Jharkhand  iii. 6

d. Madhya

Pradesh  iv. 3

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) i ii iii iv

 (B) iv i ii iii

 (C) iv iii ii i

 (D) ii iv i iii

Answer:(B)

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

select the correct answer from the

codes given below :

List – I  List – II

(Types)  (Pressure groups)

a. Institutional  i. Association of

pressure  Indian Universities

groups

b. Associational ii. All India Schedule Caste

Pressure  Federation

groups

c. Non- iii. All India Federation of

Associational  University Teachers Association

pressure

groups

d. Anomic  iv. Gopalgarh communal riots

pressure  in Rajasthan

groups

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) i ii iii iv

 (B) i iii ii iv

 (C) iii ii iv i

 (D) iv i ii iii

Answer:(B)

43. Who has termed India as an example

of “Polycentric Nationalism” ?

 (A) Partha Chatterji

 (B) Anthony D. Smith

 (C) Will Kymlicka

 (D) Benedict Anderson

Answer:(B)

44. Who is the author of the book “India

after Gandhi : The History of the

World’s Largest Democracy” ?

 (A) Ramchandran Guha

 (B) Akhil Gupta

 (C) Achin Vanaik

 (D) Ashutosh Varshney

Answer:(A)

45. Which of the following was the first

all Indian women’s organization

which came into force in 1926 ?

 (A) All India Women’s Conference

 (B) National Council for Women in

India

 (C) National Federation of Indian

Women in India.

 (D) Self-Employed Women’s

Association

Answer:(B)

46. Which one of the following Gullick

has not covered under administrative

functions of the Chief Executive ?

 (A) Staffing (B) Adjudicating

 (C) Directing (D) Coordinating

Answer:(B)

47. Which of the following principles

figure in the list of fourteen

principles propounded by Henry

Foyal ?

 (i) Subordination of individual

interest to general interest.

 (ii) Appointment on the basis of a

contract.

 (iii) Espirit de corps

 (iv) Equity

Codes :

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

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

Answer:(B)

48. Under the code developed by

workers at the Western Electric

Company, one who passes

unfavourable information about his

colleagues to his superior is called

 (A) A squealer

 (B) A puzzler

 (C) A rate-buster

 (D) A chiseller

Answer:(A)

49. According to Herbert Simon, a

decision is usually compounded of

 (A) one fact statement and one

value statement

 (B) one value statement and several

fact statements

 (C) several value statements and

one fact statement

 (D) several value statements and

several fact statements

Answer:(B)

50. Which one of the following

principles of organisation has not

been enunciated by Mooney and

Reiley ?

 (A) Equity principle

 (B) Scalar principle

 (C) Staff/Line principle

 (D) Functional principle

Answer:(A)

51. Which one of the following books

contains the most comprehensive

enunciation of the classical theory ?

 (A) Introduction to the study of

Public Administration

 (B) Public Administration

 (C) Papers on the Science of

Administration

 (D) Policy and Administration

Answer:(C)

52. According to Max Weber which one

of the following is not a feature of

bureaucracy ?

 (A) Separation of office from its

incumbent

 (B) Rigid adherence to rules

 (C) Selection by Patronage

 (D) Fix remuneration of officials

Answer:(C)

53. Which one of the following is not an

element of decision making ?

 (A) It is an unconscious activity.

 (B) It is not one time process.

 (C) It is an environment linked

activity.

 (D) It needs studying and finding

alternatives before taking final

decisions.

Answer:(A)

54. Who among the following are called

staff officials ?

 (A) Field workers

 (B) Advisory staff

 (C) Those who help the chief

executive in the performance of

his primary functions.

 (D) Those who help the chief

executive in the implementation

of his functions.

Answer:(C)

55. Which of the following concepts of

administration is action oriented

rather than structure oriented ?

 (A) Democratic Administration

 (B) Autocratic Administration

 (C) Development Administration

 (D) All of the above

Answer:(C)

56. Point out from the following the

uncommon factor between public and

private administrations

 (A) Accounting

 (B) Filling

 (C) Managerial techniques

 (D) Scope and complexity

Answer:(D)

57. The Fiscal Five Year Plan was

started in India after independence in

the year

 (A) 1950 – 1951

 (B) 1951 – 1952

 (C) 1952 – 1953

 (D) 1953 – 1954

Answer:(A)

58. Assertion (A) : The District

Collector is the most important

functionary at the apex of the

district administration.

 Reason (R) : After independence,

his role has become

increasingly multi-dimensional.

 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)

59. Match List – I with List – II and

select the correct answer from the

codes given below :

List – I  List – II

(Authors)  (Books)

a. Chester  i. Philosophy of

Barnard  administration

b. Herbert  ii. Ideas and Issues

Simon  in Public Administration

c. Dwight  iii. Administrative Behaviour

Waldo (ed.)

d. Marshall  iv. The Functions of the

Dimock  Executive

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) iii iv ii i

 (B) iv iii ii i

 (C) i iv ii iii

 (D) ii i iii iv

Answer:(B)

60. Performance Budgeting became

popular in the

 (A) 1950s (B) 1960s

 (C) 1970s (D) 1980s

Answer:(A)

61. Who builts on Kenneth Waltz’s

argument concerning the stability of

bipolar system as compared to

multipolar system ?

 (A) Stanley Hoffmann

 (B) Charles Kindelberger

 (C) John Mearshemier

 (D) John Gaddis

Answer:(C)

62. Democratic Peace Theory is placed

under which theoretical approach of

International relations ?

 (A) Structural Realism

 (B) Republican Realism

 (C) Neo-Realism

 (D) Institutional Liberalism

Answer:(D)

63. Which of the following statements

are not true ?

 (i) Security dilemma is an

important paradox of the state

system.

 (ii) Arms race increases insecurity

of states.

 (iii) Arms control is a solution.

 (iv) Standing armies contribute to

security of all.

Codes :

 (A) (i), (ii) & (iv) (B) (i) & (iii)

 (C) (iii) & (iv) (D) (i) & (iv)

Answer:(C)

64. The “Clash of Civilizations and New

World Order” predict an ideological

shift in the Post-Cold War period

from

 (A) Political ideology to economic

liberalism

 (B) Geopolitics to geo-economics

 (C) Nation-state to the civilization

area.

 (D) Political ideology to culture

and religion.

Answer:(D)

65. Assertion (A) : Modern technology

enhances the importance of war

and threats of war.

 Reason (R) : War no longer is

just a contest of strength. It is

more a contest of nerve and

risk taking.

 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:(B)

.

66. What is a “Quasi-State” ?

 (A) A State that possess juridical

statehood but severely deficient

in empirical statehood.

 (B) A State that possesses

empirical statehood.

 (C) A State that possesses neither

juridical statehood nor

empirical statehood.

 (D) A State that has divided

loyalties.

Answer:(A)

67. With which approach would one

associate the following statement ?

 Economic globalization is an uneven,

hierarchical process and benefits only

a tiny minority ?

 (A) Economic Liberalism

 (B) Economic Realists

 (C) Mercantilism

 (D) Neo-Marxism

Answer:(D)

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

select the correct answer from the

codes given below :

List – I  List – II

(Foreign Policy think  (Country)

tank)

a. Foreign Policy Institute  i. USA

b. Institute for Defense  ii. UK

& Strategic Analysis

c. Carnegie Endowment  iii. Turkey

d. International Institute  iv. India

for strategic studies

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) i ii iii iv

 (B) ii iii iv i

 (C) iii iv i ii

 (D) iv ii iii i

Answer:(C)

69. Match List – I with List – II and

select the correct answer from the

codes given below :

List – I  List – II

(Terrorist  (Countries)

Organisations)

a. LTTE  i. Peru

b. Hizbullah  ii. Nigeria

c. Bako Haram  iii. Iran

d. Shining Path  iv. Sri Lanka

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) i ii iii iv

 (B) iv iii ii i

 (C) ii i iv iii

 (D) iii iv i ii

Answer:(B)

70. The Panel on United Nations Peace

Operations was set up by the earlier

Secretary General Kofi Annan. Name

the report

 (A) Hammarskjold Report

 (B) Rajeshwar Dayal Report

 (C) Brahimi Report

 (D) Kofi Annan Report

Answer:(C)

71. Indian troops, military observers and

civilian police personnel served in

U.N.O. peace keeping operation in

 (A) Western Sahara

 (B) Bosnia

 (C) Herzegovina

 (D) All of the above

Answer:(D)

72. Match the List – I with List – II

and select answer from code given

below :

List – I  List – II

(Countries)  (Problems)

a. Sri Lanka  i. Kachativu

b. Pakistan  ii. Wular Barrage

c. Nepal  iii. Susta Border

d. Bangladesh  iv. New Moore Island

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) i ii iii iv

 (B) iv iii ii i

 (C) iii iv i ii

 (D) ii iii iv i

Answer:(A)

73. Which one of the following is not a

Indo-Pak dispute ?

 (A) Siachin dispute

 (B) Sir Creek dispute

 (C) Cross Border terrorism

 (D) Dahagram dispute

Answer:(D)

74. Match List – I with List – II and

select the correct answer from the

codes given below :

List – I  List – II

(State)  (Minorities)

a. Myanmar  i. Hindus

b. Malaysia  ii. Rohingas

c. Indonesia  iii. Tamils

d. Laos  iv. Vietnamese

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) iv iii ii i

 (B) iii ii i iv

 (C) ii iii i iv

 (D) i ii iii iv

Answer:(C)

75. Recently there were tensions between

Cambodia and Thailand. What is the

issue in conflict ?

 (A) Illegal migrations

 (B) Prachvihar

 (C) Emerald Buddha

 (D) Minorities

Answer:(B)