Kerala SET 2019 Jul Question Paper _22_

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1. “The Constituent Assembly of India was a one party body in an essentially one party
country. The Assembly was the Congress and the Congress was India” – Who made
this statement?
A) Granville Austin B) Morris Jones
C) Alexandrowitz D) K.C.Wheare

2. Who among the following described British constitution as the "highest embodiment
of political wisdom”?
A) W. B Munro B) A. V Dicey
C) Earnest Barker D) Edmund Burke

3. The author of the book ‘Democracy and Illusion’:
A) Robert Nozick B) John Plamenatz
C) David Held D) Leo Strauss

4. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given below.
List I List II
a. Article 110 1. Annual Financial Statement
b. Article 112 2. Supplementary, Additional or Excess grant
c. Article 114 3. Appropriation Bill
d. Article 115 4. Definition of Money Bill

A) a-4, b-1, c-3, d-2 B) a-4, b-3, c-2, d-1
C) a-1, b-4, c-2, d-3 D) a-3, b-1, c-4, d-2

5. ‘Special Safeguard Mechanism’ is a provision related to:
A) World Bank B) IMF
C) WTO D) European Union

6. Theodore Adorno belonged to:
A) Communitarian School B) Libertarian School
C) Frankfurt School D) Vienna School

7. Which of the following is known as ‘Peace Constitution’?
A) Chinese Constitution of 1982
B) Japanese Constitution of 1947
C) Russian Constitution of 1993
D) French Constitution of 1958

8. The country which is regarded as the traditional home of Patronage Bureaucracy:
A) France B) USA C) Britain D) China

9. M.N. Roy’s ‘Theory of Decolonisation’ was targeted against:
A) Communist International B) British Colonialism
C) American Hegemony D) Apartheid policy

10. The Committee on "Revitalization of Panchayati Raj Institutions for Democracy and
Development" was popularly known as:
A) GVK Rao Committee B) Asok Metha Committee
C) L M Singhvi Committee D) Daya Choubey Committee

11. The approach which is said to be ‘value-laden’:
A) Traditional approach B) Behavioural approach
C) System approach D) Post-behavioural approach

12. ‘Modern Marshall Plan’ was proposed by:
A) USA B) Britain C) France D) Russia

13. Which of the following is not considered by John Rawls as natural primary good?
A) Health B) Imagination C) Intelligence D) Wealth

14. The maximum number of votes which can be cast in an Electronic Voting Machine:
A) 5000 votes B) 4820 votes
C) 3840 votes D) None of these

15. An Ideal state, with perfect justice under philosophers as rulers, was pictured in
A) Machiavelli’s ‘Prince’ B) Plato’s ‘Republic’
C) Aristotle’s ‘Politics’ D) Hobbe’s ‘Leviathan’

16. The LokSabha Secretariat comes under the direct supervision of:
A) Prime Minister’s Office
B) Speaker of LokSabha
C) Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
D) Secretary General of LokSabha

17. Assertion (A): The Supreme Court of India is bound by its own judgements.
Reason (R): The Highest Court binds all subordinate courts by its own judgements.

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

18. ‘Michigan Studies’ is related to the study of:
A) Leadership B) Recruitment
C) Training D) Disciplinary action

19. What is the correct sequence of the following events?
1. Formation of American Federation
2. Creation of Swiss Confederation
3. Establishment of Canadian Federation
4. Emergence of Commonwealth of Australia

A) 1, 3, 4, 2 B) 2, 1, 4, 3 C) 1, 2, 3, 4 D) 3, 4, 1, 2

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20. ‘Track V Diplomacy’ refers to:
A) Direct people to people interaction
B) Non-officials engage in dialogue
C) Efforts by media of states towards conflict resolution
D) Socio-cultural and scientific exchanges between states

21. Which one of the following is attributed to C.I. Bernard?
A) Science of muddling through
B) Zone of Indifference
C) Bounded rationality
D) Management by Integration

22. In France, if the office of the President falls vacant who succeeds the President?
A) Vice-President
B) Chief Justice of Federal Court
C) President of the National Assembly
D) President of the Senate

23. The integral view of administration was supported by
A) L.D White B) E.N Gladden
C) Marshall E. Dimock D) All the above

24. The first systematic study of Pressure group was made by:
A) Bentley B) Duverger C) Lippman D) Lasswell

25. ----- comes under Second Generation Rights.
A) Environmental Rights B) Freedom of Association
C) Right to Education D) Freedom of Religion

26. Who among the following held the view that the ‘state comes into existence for the
sake of life and it continues for the sake of good life”?
A) Bentham B) Aristotle C) Plato D) T.H Green

27. The First Asian Relations Conference was held at:
A) Manila B) Tokyo C) Colombo D) New Delhi

28. Which of the following pairs is wrongly given?
A) Copenhagen Summit (1995) – on social development
B) Beijing Conference (1995) – on women
C) Cairo Meet (1994) – on human settlements
D) Vienna Summit (1993) – on human rights

29. Which one of the following is not an input function of political system?
A) Political Communication B) Political Recruitment
C) Interest Articulation D) Rule Adjudication

30. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
A) Aristotle – state is a magnified individual
B) Hegel – state is a march of God on earth
C) Marx – Modern state is an instrument of class exploitation
D) Gandhi – state represents violence in concentrated form

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31. Assertion (A): System theory is criticised for its ideological basis in favour of status quo.
Reason (R): System theory stresses upon notions of stability, equilibrium, steady
pattern maintenance.

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

32. Hegel viewed civil society as an embodiment of ------.
A) Particularity B) Community C) Unity D) Universality

33. Which of the following work is not authored by Graham Wallas?
A) The Great Society B) Our Social Heritage
C) The Art of Thought D) Social Theory

34. The concept of ‘Distributive Justice’ was first given by:
A) Plato B) Aristotle C) Locke D) John Rawls

35. The term ‘Political Public’ was coined by:
A) Habermas B) Sartori C) Mosca D) Adorno

36. Which British Act is known as the Act for the Good Governance of India?
A) Government of India Act, 1858
B) Government of India Act, 1861
C) Government of India Act, 1909
D) Government of India Act, 1935

37. Who among the following regarded second chamber as needless, useless and worse?
A) J.S Mill B) Bentham C) Laski D) Rousseau

38. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
A) L.D. White – Introduction to the Study of Public Administration
B) Willoughby – Principles of Public Administration
C) E.N Gladden – An Introduction to Public Administration
D) Herbert Simon – A Philosophy of Administration

39. The formation of ‘villages of co-operation’ was advocated by:
A) Robert Owen B) Karl Marx
C) Saint Simon D) Proudhan

40. Assertion (A): According to the managerial school, administration is the organization
and use of men and materials in the pursuit of common objectives.
Reason (R): The managerial school limited the scope of public administration to the
techniques of management.

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

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41. ‘Union of Trinity’ is related to a speech made by
A) Jawaharlal Nehru B) M.N Roy
C) B.R Ambedkar D) Ram Manohar Lohia

42. The Eleventh Schedule to the Constitution of India contains ---- items.
A) 26 B) 27 C) 28 D) 29

43. India’s status in Arctic Council is:
A) Member B) Observer
C) Dialogue Partner D) Associate Member

44. Merit system of selection was introduced in India by-----.
A) Lord Macaulay B) Lord Clive
C) Lord Wellington D) Lord Irwin

45. The phrase ‘a distillation of maximal image’ relates to-----.
A) Individualism B) Structuralism
C) Behaviouralism D) Post-behaviouralism

46. In USA, the disagreement between House of Representative and Senate is resolved
through -----.
A) Joint Sitting B) Conference Committee
C) Supreme Court D) Presidential address

47. ------ of international politics does not give importance to the role of state as an actor.
A) Dependency Model B) Realist Model
C) Non-realist Model D) Interdependence Pluralist Model

48. Sixth Schedule to the Constitution of India makes special provisions in regards to the
administration of tribal areas in:
A) Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram
B) Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur
C) Tripura, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya
D) Nagaland, Assam, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh

49. Among the following models of development, which one is not correctly matched?
A) Centre-Periphery Model – Andre Frank
B) Functional Model - Almond
C) Environmental Model - Riggs
D) Market-Society Model - Santos

50. ‘Harm Principle’ is associated with:
A) Bentham B) J.S. Mill C) Hegel D) T.H Green

51. Who among the following termed auxiliary function as the ‘housekeeping function’?
A) Elton Mayo B) L D White C) Willoughby D) F.M Marx

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52. Which of the following is not related to Ram Manohar Lohia?
A) Principle of Equal Irrelevance
B) Bahishkrit Bharat
C) Theory of Equidistance
D) Decentralised Socialism

53. A writ issued by a Court to some inferior authority to transfer the matter to it or to
some other superior authority for its proper consideration is called
A) Certiorari B) Mandamus
C) Quo Warranto D) Prohibition

54. ----- termed Morgenthau’s Realist theory as ‘Power Monism’.
A) Quincy Wright B) Morton Kaplan
C) George Modelski D) Stanley Hoffman

55. Assertion (A): The demand for a New International Economic Order called for a
restructuring of the world economy to bridge the gap between rich
and poor countries of the world.
Reason (R): Very many specific demands have been fulfilled due to the positive
response of rich countries.

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

56. Hawthorne experiments are related to the:
A) Classical theory
B) System theory
C) Scientific Management theory
D) Human Relations theory

57. The country known as the laboratory of constitutional experiments:
A) France B) Germany C) England D) USA

58. The term ‘Iron Curtain’ was coined by:
A) Woodrow Wilson B) Winston Churchill
C) Roosevelt D) George Kennan

59. The Constitutional case which prompted Parliament of India to enact 24th Constitution
Amendment Act:
A) Berubari case B) Shankari Prasad case
C) Kesavananda Bharati case D) Golaknath case

60. Green Belt Movement originated in ------.
A) South Africa B) Kenya C) Nigeria D) Brazil

61. Gandhi was a ‘living truth’, a ‘symbol of humanism’ – whose words are this?
A) Albert Einstein B) Martin Luther King
C) Rabindranath Tagore D) Louis Fischer

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62. The concept of ‘Universal Egoism’ is the contribution of :
A) Machiavelli B) T.H Green C) Althusser D) Habermas

63. Which of the following pairs is wrong?
A) Article 243 J – Audit Accounts of Panchayat
B) Article 243 ZE – Committee for Metropolitan Planning
C) Article 243 K – Duration of Panchayat
D) Article 243 R – Composition of Municipalities

64. Numerical concept of Justice is associated with:
A) Plato B) Bentham C) Aristotle D) John Rawls

65. The ‘Organisational Approach’ to the Elite theory is represented by:
A) Pareto B) Mosca C) Sartori D) Michels

66. The concept of 'minimal state' was introduced by:
A) Adam Smith B) J S Mill
C) H J Laski D) Robert Nozick

67. Who among the following described Quit India Movement as ‘irresponsible and
insane’?
A) B.R Ambedkar B) M.N Roy
C) Muhammad Ali Jinnah D) Ram Manohar Lohia

68. A body of World Bank known as ‘Soft Loan Window’:
A) IFC B) MIGA C) IDA D) IBRD

69. Who among the following argues that ‘only those parties should be counted as parts of
the party system that have either ‘Coalition potential’ or ‘Blackmail potential’?
A) Lipset B) Sartori
C) Duverger D) Rajani Kothari

70. In China, the power to remove the President and Vice-President rests with:
A) Central Committee of Communist Party
B) Polit bureau
C) National People’s Congress
D) People’s Court

71. “Administration is concerned with ‘What’ and ‘How’ of Government” – Who said?
A) Marshal E. Dimock B) Woodrow Wilson
C) Luther Gullick D) Max Weber

72. The exponent of the notion of ‘Popular National Culture’:
A) Paulantzas B) Gramsci C) Adorno D) Habermas

73. ‘Socialism in One Country’ Vs‘Permanent Revolution’ was the crux of the controversy
between:
A) Bakunin and Engels B) Engels and Lenin
C) Stalin and Trotsky D) Lenin and Stalin

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74. The 4Ps theory as advocated by Luther Gullick are:
A) Purpose, Process, Penuary, Place
B) Place, Persons, Programmes, Process
C) Purpose, Process, Persons, Places
D) Purpose, Process, Places, Programme

75. The office of Collector was created in India by-----.
A) Warren Hastings B) Dalhousie
C) Cornwallis D) Rippon

76. Who among the following is an advocate of Bargaining theory?
A) Liska B) Simon C) Schelling D) Kaplan

77. Which of the following pairs is wrongly matched?
A) Sharad Joshi – Farmer’s Movement
B) Partha Chatterji – Workers Movement
C) Nirmala Deshpande – Gandhian Movement
D) Sunderlal Bahuguna – Chipko Movement

78. Political thinkers who represented the Institutional Approach to comparative politics:
A) Almond and Coleman B) Easton and Dahl
C) Duverger and Sartori D) Leo Strauss and Dicey

79. The Article of the UN Charter, under which the term ‘Non-Governmental
Organisation’ is used:
A) Article 71 B) Article 81 C) Article 69 D) Article 82

80. -----termed characteristics of political system as ‘legitimate pattern of interaction’.
A) Almond B) Easton C) Mitchel D) Powell

81. Interest aggregation is the function of :
A) Interest groups B) Pressure groups
C) Political Parties D) Government

82. Stockholm Conference on Human Environment was held in the year -----.
A) 1972 B) 1973 C) 1974 D) 1975

83. In regard to the theory of political parties, which one of the following was propounded
by Maurice Duverger?
A) Two-party system
B) Cadre-based party
C) Four-fold classification on the basis of structure
D) Coalitional System

84. ------ gave prominence to the size principle in his theory of political coalitions.
A) Almond B) V.O. Key
C) Lucian Pye D) William Riker

85. The person who explained collective security as ‘one for all and all for one’:
A) E.H Carr B) Palmer C) Morgenthau D) Snyder

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86. The concept of ‘New Public Administration’ is associated with:
A) Princeton School B) Minnobrook Conference
C) Philadelphia Conference D) Frankfurt School

87. The idea of ‘Committed Bureaucracy’ in India was advocated by:
A) Indira Gandhi B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) Morarji Desai D) Sardar Patel

88. Which of the following is the oldest committee of Parliament of India?
A) Privilege Committee B) Estimates Committee
C) Public Accounts Committee D) Business Advisory Committee

89. Atlantic Charter of 1941 contained ---- points.
A) Seven B) Eight C) Nine D) Ten

90. Acheson Plan of UNO relates to-----.
A) Decolonisation B) Disarmament
C) Human Rights D) Collective Security

91. The ‘Theory of Contradictions’ is the contribution of:
A) Marx B) Mao C) Lenin D) Stalin

92. Assertion (A): In the Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes argues that through social contract a
sovereign authority is created to whom every man surrendered his
authority of governing himself.
Reason (R): Men found that they cannot collectively regulate their life as they did
in the state of nature.

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

93. ‘Federal Capital Territory’, a special unit of federation is in -----.
A) Canada B) Nigeria C) USA D) Russia

94. The first meeting of BRICS was held in-----.
A) Brazil B) Russia C) India D) China

95. Indian Institute of Public Administration was founded on the recommendation of----.
A) Gorewala
B) Santhanam
C) First Administrative Reforms Commission
D) Appleby

96. In Britain the office of the Prime Minister came into being during the period of------.
A) Charles I B) James I C) George I D) George III

97. Heavy restrictions were imposed on the civil servants of the USA by:
A) Civil Service Act B) Hatch Act
C) First Hoover Commission D) Second Hoover Commission

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98. The first Public Service Commission in India was set up by:
A) The Regulating Act of 1773
B) Government of India Act of 1909
C) Government of India Act of 1919
D) Government of India Act of 1935

99. Which one of the following is not a fundamental duty under Article 51 (A)?
A) Protection of environment B) Protection of Socio-cultural minorities
C) Safeguard Public property D) Develop Scientific temper

100. The commission which recommended for the creation of special officer for Linguistic
Minorities in India:
A) State Reorganisation Commission
B) Dar Commission
C) First Administrative Reforms Commission
D) Sarkaria Commission

101. The inequality termed by Rousseau as ‘Conventional Inequality’:
A) Political Inequality B) Economic Inequality
C) Social Inequality D) Intellectual Inequality

102. Constitutions are classified into Republican, Monarchic and Despotic by:
A) James Bryce B) Herman Finer C) Montesquieu D) A.V Dicey

103. Which one of the following is incorrectly matched?
A) Merit Bureaucracy – 19thcentury Prussian Civil Service
B) Patronage Bureaucracy – 19thcentury American Civil Service
C) Guardian Bureaucracy – 16thcentury Chinese Civil Service
D) Caste Bureaucracy – 18thcentury British Civil Service

104. The report which deals with the relations between the Specialist and Generalists:
A) Santhanam Committee Report
B) Haldane Committee Report
C) Kothari Commission Report
D) Gorwala Report

105. On the basis of Executive legislative relationship governments are classified into:
A) Parliamentary and Presidential
B) Unitary and Federal
C) Democratic and Non Democratic
D) Rigid and Flexible

106. The Article of the Constitution of India which provides for adult suffrage:
A) Article 327 B) Article 326 C) Article 325 D) Article 324

107. The UN Conference on Climate Change has agreed to extend the term of Kyoto
Protocol till :
A) 2020 B) 2021 C) 2022 D) 2023

108. The tenure of the American House of Representatives is-----.
A) Four Years B) Six Years C) Two Years D) Five Years

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109. Who among the following described state as “a partnership in all science; a partnership
in all art, a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection”?
A) Green B) Laski C) Burke D) Hegel

110. The political thinker who applied the ‘liberty principle’ and ‘the difference principle’
to explain Justice:
A) Immanuel Kant B) John Rawls
C) Robert Nozick D) Michael Foucault

111. Annapolis Conference was held to solve:
A) Brexit issue of Britain B) North Korea – South Korea conflict
C) Iran nuclear issue D) Israeli – Palestine conflict

112. The commission which recommended that Union Government maypersuade the State
Government for Constitution of an All India Service for Education:
A) Radhakrishnan Commission
B) Y.K Alagh Commission
C) Sarkaria Commission
D) Kothari Commission

113. ------ defined influence as "the value position and potential of a person or group".
A) Harold Lasswell B) Robert A Dahl
C) Charles E Lindblom D) Karl Deutsch

114. Indian Constitution borrowed the term ‘Equal Protection of Law’ from -----.
A) Britain B) USA C) Japan D) Ireland

115. The country having the weakest second chamber:
A) USA B) France C) Britain D) Canada

116. Who said “Nature has made man so equal in the faculties of body and mind”?
A) Hobbes B) Locke C) Rousseau D) Laski

117. Which one of the following tax is levied by the union and collected and appropriated
by the states in India?
A) Passenger and Goods tax B) Estate Duty
C) Stamp Duty D) Taxes on Newspapers

118. Ecological approach to the study of public administration is associated with:
A) Luther Gullick B) F.W Riggs
C) F.W Taylor D) Simon

119. The country which recently withdrew from the International Criminal Court:
A) USA B) Syria C) Mexico D) The Philippines

120. The term ‘Nairobi Package’ is related to the affairs of:
A) United Nations Environment Programme
B) Food and Agricultural Organisation
C) World Trade Organisation
D) European Union
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