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UGC NET December 2014 Political Science — Solved Previous Year Questions

114 previous-year questions from UGC NET December 2014 Political Science (UGC NET) — each with the correct answer and a clear explanation. Use it as an answer key, or practise the full paper below.

  1. Which of the following is not a reason for the decline of the Political Theory of David Easton? · Ans: C
  2. Who among the following said that "Political theory is quite simply, man's attempt to consciously understand and solve the problems of his group life and organisation"? · Ans: B
  3. Who of the following lamented the 'death' of political philosophy? · Ans: B
  4. Which one of the following governmental systems is considered to be the off-spring and successor of the Theory of Separation of Powers? · Ans: B
  5. Match List I (Authors) with List II (Dominant Concepts). · Ans: B
  6. Who of the following advocates Economic Theory of Democracy? · Ans: C
  7. Which one of the following statements is incorrect regarding political ideology? · Ans: D
  8. Which of the following is not a feature of liberal communitarian debate? · Ans: D
  9. Which one of the following answers is correct regarding Post-Marxism? · Ans: D
  10. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  11. Who of the following gave the idea of 'Saintly Idiom' in Indian Politics? · Ans: C
  12. Who describes social movements as 'Non-Party Political Formation'? · Ans: B
  13. Arrange the following in chronological sequence. · Ans: B
  14. Who has described Indian society as a 'Political Society'? · Ans: A
  15. On which date is National Integration Day celebrated in India? · Ans: B
  16. Who of the following is associated with the concept 'Congress System'? · Ans: C
  17. Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R. Choose the correct answer using the codes given below. · Ans: A
  18. Arrange the following in chronological order and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: D
  19. Khilafat Movement in India was started to show solidarity with the Sultan of · Ans: B
  20. In which of the following Acts, the provincial subjects were divided into transferred and reserved subjects? · Ans: C
  21. Match List I (Acts/Agencies) with List II (Years) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
  22. Which one of the following does not qualify for curtailing the freedom of speech and expression under the Indian Constitution? · Ans: C
  23. Which of the following kinds of special provisions are made for the Scheduled Tribes in India? Select the correct answer using the codes given below: · Ans: D
  24. Match List I (Features of the Indian Constitution) with List II (Sources) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  25. Who among the following was a member of the Justice J.S. Verma Committee constituted following the Nirbhaya Case? · Ans: B
  26. Which one of the following principles did not emerge from the Bommai case in relation to Article 356? · Ans: C
  27. Which one of the following writs is issued against an inferior tribunal which has declined to exercise its jurisdiction? · Ans: D
  28. In India, the 'Collegium System' was first introduced in relation to · Ans: C
  29. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Choose the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  30. Which one of the following statements about the disadvantage of the Territorial Principle of Administrative Organisation is wrong? · Ans: A
  31. Which one of the following, bearing names of Chief Election Commissioners of India, is arranged in chronological order? · Ans: B
  32. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
  33. Which one of the following is not the function of the Election Commission of India? · Ans: D
  34. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Choose the correct answer using the codes given below. · Ans: A
  35. Nocturnal Council finds a mention in Plato's: · Ans: C
  36. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Choose the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  37. Match List I (Authors) with List II (Books) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
  38. Who among the following defined civil power as 'the right of making laws with penalties for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the force of the community in the execution of such laws, all this… · Ans: C
  39. For whom of the following, science is the fruit of idle curiosity, philosophy is mere intellectual frippery, and the amenities of polite life are tinsel? · Ans: C
  40. Who of the following said that 'the emancipation of the working class is the work of the working class itself'? · Ans: D
  41. Which one of the following is not correct regarding Marx's Theory of Alienation? · Ans: C
  42. Who of the following gave the slogan 'Turn the imperialist war into a civil war, that is, into a proletarian revolution'? · Ans: D
  43. Who said, 'Revolutions are the festivals of the oppressed and the exploited'? · Ans: B
  44. Who of the following said that 'Lenin's party was designed to be an elite, a minority chosen for intellectual and moral superiority, the most advanced part of the working class and so its vanguard'? · Ans: C
  45. Saint Augustine's 'De Civitate Dei' is divided into how many books? · Ans: D
  46. Which one of the following was not included in the minimum criteria for ensuring national governance given by Nayef Al-Rodhan in his book 'Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man'? · Ans: C
  47. Which one of the following was not a substitute for the Merit System found earlier? · Ans: A
  48. Regarding the liability of holders of public office, when an official fails to perform a legal duty, it is known as: · Ans: B
  49. The Desk Officer System in the Ministries of the Government of India had the following advantages. Select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: C
  50. Which one of the following institutions was established in India on the recommendations of Paul H. Appleby? · Ans: B
  51. Arrange the following in the correct chronological sequence in the stages of performance budgeting: · Ans: D
  52. Ombudsman in Sweden can take the following actions. Select the correct answer using the codes given below: · Ans: B
  53. The post-1970 phase in the development of Public Administration was characterised by: · Ans: D
  54. Which of the following are the characteristics of Weber's bureaucracy? · Ans: B
  55. In the UK, merit-based recruitment was adopted on the recommendation of which report? · Ans: B
  56. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: B
  57. Match List I (Books) with List II (Authors) and choose the correct option: · Ans: C
  58. Which one of the following was not in the list of functional requisites for any society, given by Fred W. Riggs? · Ans: B
  59. Which one of the following is not a stage of the decision-making process given by Herbert Simon? · Ans: B
  60. Arrange the following in the correct chronological order of the hierarchy of human needs given by Maslow: · Ans: D
  61. What was Mooney referring to when he said 'conferring of specified authority by a higher authority'? · Ans: D
  62. Which one of the following is not one of the styles of leadership given by Likert? · Ans: C
  63. Game Theory owes a heavy debt to the seminal work entitled, 'The Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour'. It has been written by · Ans: B
  64. Which of the following factors contributed to the emergence of 'New Detente' after the Cold War? · Ans: B
  65. Which one of the following is not a feature of 'Shopkeeper Diplomacy'? · Ans: D
  66. Which one of the following answers is incorrect regarding neoliberalism? · Ans: C
  67. Match List I (Statements) with List II (Scholars) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
  68. Which one of the following statements regarding realism are not true? · Ans: D
  69. Who defined non-alignment as a policy of "keeping out of alliances"? · Ans: B
  70. Who among the following has remarked that power in a political context means 'the power of man over the minds and actions of other men'? · Ans: C
  71. Positive peace implies · Ans: C
  72. Who among the following used the phrase that the United Nations is 'sharing in the name of solidarity' for underlining the necessity of the UN? · Ans: B
  73. Which one of the following is the report that triggered the process of UN reform? · Ans: B
  74. Read the following statements and choose the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
  75. Match List I (Authors) with List II (Books) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  76. The demand for a New International Economic Order was first made at the · Ans: D
  77. Arrange the following in their chronological sequence. Choose the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
  78. Which one of the following is not an Inter-Governmental Organisation (IGO)? · Ans: B
  79. Which one of the following is not correct about the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN)? · Ans: D
  80. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) of 1994 includes · Ans: A
  81. Consider the following statements about South-South cooperation. Choose the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
  82. Which one of the following countries is not a member of BIMSTEC, which started in 1997? · Ans: D
  83. Which one of the following is not true about ASEAN (Association of South-East Asian Nations)? · Ans: B
  84. Which one of the following reports cites the unjust global trade regime as the primary cause of increasing global inequality? · Ans: C
  85. Operation Enduring Freedom, 2001 is related to the · Ans: B
  86. In which of the following countries did Narendranath Bhattacharya settle under the name of Manabendra Nath Roy? · Ans: D
  87. Which of the following is NOT a feature of Jayaprakash Narayan's party-less democracy? · Ans: C
  88. 'Since Indians wish to unite and develop a common culture, it is the bounden duty of all Indians to own up Hindi as their language. Any Indian who does not accept this proposal has no right to be… · Ans: A
  89. Who of the following said that God had appeared to him in prison, placed the Gita in his hands and made him realise the simple truths of the Sanatana Dharma? · Ans: C
  90. Identify the correct sequence of the books written on Mahatma Gandhi in ascending order. Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  91. Who is of the view that it is not Gandhi who made Satyagraha, but it is Satyagraha which made Gandhi the Mahatma? · Ans: A
  92. Comparative politics as an autonomous discipline emerged · Ans: D
  93. The cultural thrust in comparative politics became prominent during · Ans: B
  94. Comparative politics is the study of · Ans: B
  95. What is the correct sequence in which the following approaches to the study of 'Comparative Politics' emerged? · Ans: B
  96. Identify the correct sequence of the following input functions and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: D
  97. The sociologists who influenced Gabriel Almond in his structural functionalism were · Ans: B
  98. Who among the following has defined legitimacy as 'conviction on the part of the member that it is right and proper to accept and obey the authorities'? · Ans: A
  99. Which of the following statements about the Vice-President of India and the Vice-President of America are true? · Ans: B
  100. Which one of the following Articles of the US Constitution vests the executive powers in the President? · Ans: B
  101. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  102. Pocket veto, the President's message to the Federal Legislature, the caucus system and pigeonholing a bill are parts of the constitutional practice of · Ans: B
  103. The Judges of the US Supreme Court hold office · Ans: D
  104. Which one of the following Federal Courts has the power to declare laws passed by the state or constituent unit of the federation invalid but not the federal laws? · Ans: C
  105. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Choose the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
  106. What is the name of the Committee in Britain that takes up the voting of demands and of taxes (revenue part)? · Ans: B
  107. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  108. Who among the following has classified dependency into 'Colonial dependency', 'Financial-industrial dependency' and 'Technological-industrial dependency'? · Ans: B
  109. According to Riggs, the lack of balance between equality and capacity is · Ans: B
  110. Arrange the following books in the order in which they appeared. · Ans: A
  111. Which of the following are the characteristics of a system, according to Almond? · Ans: D
  112. Who among the following former British Prime Ministers belonged to the Labour Party? · Ans: A
  113. Who among the following has used the concepts of goal changing, feedback and learning? · Ans: B
  114. Riots and demonstrations are examples of · Ans: D

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