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ENTRANCE TEST-2021
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

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POLITICAL SCIENCE
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1. Which of the following combination of philosopher 6. Which of the following is not a feature of equality ?
and the idea regarding politics is odd ? (A) Absence of special privileges
(A) Aristotle : Master Science
(B) Adequate opportunities for development
(B) Laswell : Who gets What, When and How?
(C) Absence of gross inequalities
(C) Max Weber : Vocation
(D) It must be absolute
(D) Dahl : Authoritative Allocation of Values
7. Which is not the feature of elitist theory of
2. Who among the following is credited with making a
democracy ?
distinction between Theoretical and Applied
Politics ? (A) It criticized the classical theory of democracy
(A) Garner (B) It supported universal adult franchise
(B) Sidgwick (C) It opposed parliamentary democracy
(C) Fredrick Pollock (D) Masses must be given more votes
(D) Stephen Leacock 8. According to Harold Laski, rights are :
3. Who among the following is not the exponent of
(A) The right conditions of life which are essential
Philosophical Approach to Political Science ?
for the development of the individual
(A) Sabine
(B) Those conditions of social life without which no
(B) Plato man can seek to be himself at his best
(C) Hegel (C) Claims recognized by society and enforced by
(D) Sidgwick state
4. According to which theory, “The State is a growth, (D) All the above
an evolution, the result of gradual process running
9. Who has argued for Plato’s Republic that, ‘burn all
throughout all the known history” ?
the libraries for their lies the value in this book’ ?
(A) Divine Origin Theory
(A) Sabine
(B) Historical-Evolutionary Theory
(B) Emerson
(C) Social Contract Theory
(C) Barker
(D) None of these
5. Which of the following statements captures the (D) Dunning
meaning of Positive Liberty ? 10. Plato’s Communism is meant for :
(A) Liberty means absence of restraints (A) Rulers and Soldiers
(B) The Government is best which governs the least (B) Guardians and Artisans
(C) Human consciousness postulates liberty, liberty
(C) Workers and Rulers
involves rights and rights demand the state
(D) Authority of the state and liberty of the individual (D) All of these
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11. Which one is not correct regarding Aristotle’s notion 16. For whom, ‘the state of nature is to be a state of liberty,
of slavery ? yet it is not a state of license’ ?
(A) John Locke
(A) Slavery is expedient and right
(B) Immanuel Kant
(B) Slavery is natural (C) Thomas Hobbes
(C) Slaves should not be Greeks but of an inferior (D) J. J. Rousseau

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race with less spirit 17. According to Rousseau, ‘General will’ is not :

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(A) Oligarchy
18. Who among the following argued that ‘individuals will
(B) Monarchy obey the state because the probable mischiefs of
obedience are less than the probable mischiefs of
(C) Aristocracy
resistance’ ?
(D) Polity (A) T. H. Green
13. Which of the following ideas of Machiavelli earned (B) Jeremy Bentham
him the title of being the founder of modern politics ? (C) James Mill

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(C) J. J. Rousseau
14. Whose scientific method influenced Hobbes’s
(D) J. S Mill
construction of ‘Leviathan’ ?
20. Karl Marx borrowed the concept of ‘class’ from :
(A) Aristotle (A) Hegel
(B) Machiavelli (B) Proudhon
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behaviour of the system’ ?
a (B) Humans are in a perpetual danger (A) Input
(B) Feedback
(C) The competition among people however is limited
(C) Output
(D) Humans are incapable of living in harmony
(D) Support

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22. For Gabriel Almond which one of the following is not 27. Single Transferable Voting System was invented by :
the dimension to measure input functions ?
(A) Clement Atlee
(A) Manifest-latent (B) James Monroe
(B) Specific-diffuse (C) Thomas Hare
(C) Covert-overt (D) Winston Churchill
(D) Instrumental-affective 28. The idea of extending the concept of security from
state security to individual human beings was first
23. According to Prof. Dicey, the British Parliament is
articulated by :
supreme because :
(A) UNDP 1994
(A) It can make or unmake any law
(B) Independent Commission on Disarmament and
(B) No person can override its legislation Security Issues in 1982
(C) Its power extends to every part of King’s (C) Human Security Now 2003
dominions
(D) 2005 World Summit Outcome Document
(D) All of the above 29. Who among the following regarded the distinction
24. The ‘Fusion of power’ is a characteristic feature of between domestic and international politics as the
which of the following political systems ? ‘Great Divide’ ?
(A) Parliamentary system (A) Hans Morgenthau

(B) Presidential System (B) Kenneth Waltz
(C) Ian Clark
(C) Monarchial System
(D) Joseph Nye
(D) Semi-presidential
30. Which of the following is incorrect regarding the
25. What does the term ‘swing’ mean in voting ? principles of Morgenthau’s Realism ?
(A) Long term voter attachment to a given party (A) Universal moral principles can be used to judge
state actions
(B) Percentage of voters switching parties from one
election to the next (B) National Interest defined in terms of power
(C) Tendency of a given social class to vote for a (C) Politics is an autonomous sphere
party that promotes its economic interest (D) Political realism refuses to identify the moral
(D) None of these aspirations of a particular nation with moral laws
that govern the universe
26. The First Past the Post System is still used in the
31. Which of the following according to Wallerstein is not
following countries except :
a feature of ‘Periphery’ ?
(A) Canada (A) Non-democratic governments
(B) India (B) Raw Material
(C) United States (C) High Investment
(D) Australia (D) No Welfare Services

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32. Who has given the concept of ‘Development of 37. Which among the following is odd one regarding the
Underdevelopment’ ? elements of Kautilya’s State ?
(A) Raul Prebisch (A) Swami
(B) Wallerstein (B) Amatya
(C) Robert Cox (C) Danda

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33. European Union came into existence under which of 38. Who among the following described Tilak as the
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(B) Rome Treaties
(C) Patel
(C) Lisbon Treaty
(D) Ambedkar
(D) Maastricht Treaty
39. In which of the following years Ambedkar founded
34. China formally entered WTO in the year : the Independent Labour Party ?
(A) 2002 (A) 1923
(B) 2001 (B) 1921

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Doctrine’ ?
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(A) Non-reciprocity (A) He supported full freedom in property matters
(B) No country should interfere in the internal affairs (B) He favoured the communist ownership of
of another property

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sovereignty the capitalist or communist systems

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(C) 2012 (C) Open to the ideal of formal power-sharing
(D) 2013 (D) Freedom of expression and criticism

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42. The book, ‘Why Socialism ?’ is written by : 47. Which one is not the technique of Taylor’s Scientific
(A) J. P. Narayan Management ?
(B) Ambedkar (A) Functional Foremanship
(C) M .N. Roy
(B) Motion Study
(D) Nehru
(C) Time Study
43. Who among the following wrote from the Andaman
jail that, ‘just as I feel that I should rebel against foreign (D) Rule of Thumb
rule over Hinduism, I feel I should rebel against the
48. Which among the following is not associated with
caste discrimination and untouchability’ ?
Herbert Simon’s ‘decision making’ concept ?
(A) Gandhi
(B) Savarkar (A) Bounded rationality
(C) Ambedkar (B) Zone of Acceptance
(D) M. N. Roy (C) Programmed decisions
44. Which among the following is incorrect regarding
(D) Zone of indifference
Maulana Azad ?
(A) He was the proponent of the idea of Composite 49. Which of the following is not a characteristic of
Nationalism Development Administration ?
(B) He established the Urdu weekly newspaper (A) Client orientation
Al-hilal
(B) Change orientation
(C) He openly supported Muslim League
(D) He was first Education Minister of Independent (C) Non-ecological
India (D) Citizen participation
45. Who among the following was the first thinker to
50. Who among the following is associated with Mixed-
emphasize the need for a separate study of Public
Administration ? Scanning Model of Policy making ?
(A) Dwight Waldo (A) Charles Lindbloom
(B) L. D. White (B) Herbert Simon
(C) Marshall Dimock
(C) Amitai Etzioni
(D) Woodrow Wilson
(D) Paul Appleby
46. Which of the following is correct with regard to Herbert
Simon’s views regarding the difference between public 51. The term ‘New Public Management’ was coined
and private administration ? by :
(A) Principle of Uniformity (A) Christopher Hood
(B) The former is bureaucratic whereas the latter is
business like (B) F. Riggs
(C) Political Character (C) D. Waldo
(D) Public Accountability (D) Vincent Ostrom

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52. Which of the following is the basic theme of ‘New 56. The ‘Doctrine of Pith and Substance’ in Indian
Public Management’ ? Constitution relates to :
(A) Management by efficiency (A) Article 1
(B) Allow Public Managers Manage (B) Article 360
(C) More Focus on Public Sector (C) Article 246

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administration ?
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(D) 1994
(C) George Giant
58. Who is the current Chairman of SEBI ?
(D) F. Riggs
(A) Ajay Tyagi
54. The doctrine of the ‘Basic Structure of Indian
(B) S. K. Mohanty
Constitution’ was enunciated by the Supreme Court
in which of the following cases ? (C) K.V.R. Murty

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(A) Minerva Mills case

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59. The headquarters of the TRAI are located in :

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(C) Golaknath Case
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(D) Shankari Prasad Case (C) Delhi
55. In the Constitution of India, the term ‘federal’ : (D) Gujarat
(A) Figures in the Preamble 60. The theme of the 2020 National e-Governance
Conference was :
(B) Figures in Part III of Constitution
(A) India 2020 : Digital Transformation
(C) Figures in Article 368 (B) India 2020 : Digital India
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