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UGC NET December 2015 Political Science — Solved Previous Year Questions

113 previous-year questions from UGC NET December 2015 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. 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
  2. Which of the following were described by David Easton as intellectual foundations of the system analysis? Give the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: D
  3. Who among the following referred to the 'decline' of political theory? · Ans: D
  4. Which of the following statements are true regarding Political Theory? · Ans: C
  5. 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: A
  6. Which one of the following said, 'The power is a matter of getting people to do what they would not have otherwise done'? · Ans: B
  7. Communitarian theory lays emphasis on · Ans: A
  8. Match the following and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  9. Match the following and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
  10. 'India has a hallowed place in discussions of democracy. But it has become less tolerant, less secular, less law-abiding, less liberal. And these two trends, democratisation and illiberalism, are directly related.' Who writes this? · Ans: C
  11. Which of the following pairs showing the state and its dominant caste is not correct? · Ans: B
  12. Match List I (Movements) with List II (Personalities) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
  13. Match List I (Movements) with List II (States) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
  14. Match List I (Leaders) with List II (Movements) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
  15. Match List I (Leaders) with List II (Political Parties) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
  16. Match List I (Student Organisations) with List II (Party Affiliation) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
  17. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
  18. Who presided over the All-Party Conference (1928)? · Ans: B
  19. In whose description Maulana Azad, Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel and Rajendra Prasad formed 'an oligarchy within the Constituent Assembly'? · Ans: A
  20. Which one of the following Acts has not been passed under Article 34 of the Indian Constitution? · Ans: C
  21. How many functional items have been placed within the purview of municipalities by the 12th Schedule to the Constitution? · Ans: A
  22. Which one of the following Acts has been made under Article 34 of the Indian Constitution? · Ans: B
  23. Arrange the following Vice-Presidents of India in chronological order and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
  24. 'The Supreme Court of India is at long last becoming, after 32 years of the republic, the Supreme Court for Indians.' Who said this? · Ans: C
  25. In which one of the following cases did the Supreme Court of India lay down exhaustive guidelines for preventing sexual harassment of working women at their place of work? · Ans: D
  26. Rearrange the following in chronological order and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: D
  27. Which of the following is not recognised as a 'tension' area in the Indian Federation? · Ans: C
  28. Which one of the following was not recommended for Panchayati Raj by Thungon Committee? · Ans: D
  29. 74th Constitutional Amendment Act of 1992 does not apply to the scheduled areas in the states of · Ans: A
  30. Plato's communism of family and property was largely derived from the experience of: · Ans: D
  31. Which one of the following statements is not correct in regard to Aristotle's classification of governments? · Ans: D
  32. Which of the following is not true of Aristotle's theory of state? · Ans: C
  33. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  34. Machiavelli is regarded as the first modern political thinker because of · Ans: A
  35. Which of the following thinkers held the view that the probable mischiefs of obedience are less than the probable mischiefs of resistance? · Ans: C
  36. Which one of the following statements of Hobbes was wrong? · Ans: B
  37. Match List I (Thinkers) with List II (Ideas) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  38. 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: A
  39. John Locke's contribution chiefly lies in his · Ans: D
  40. Which of the following statements is correct regarding J.S. Mill? · Ans: D
  41. Match List I (Thinkers) with List II (Theories) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  42. Rearrange the following works of Karl Marx in sequential order in terms of publication year. · Ans: A
  43. 'Man must eat before he thinks. To eat he must produce. Production is a basic activity.' Who said this? · Ans: D
  44. Dialectical materialism of Karl Marx postulates that · Ans: B
  45. Which of the following statements relating to Mao's theory of contradictions are true? · Ans: C
  46. Match List I (Concept) with List II (Thinker) and select the correct answer using the codes given below. · Ans: A
  47. 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: A
  48. 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
  49. The Chief Information Commissioner and Information Commissioners in India are appointed for a term of: · Ans: A
  50. The aim of e-Government is to make the relation between government and citizens. Select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
  51. 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: A
  52. Which of the following statements is not correct? · Ans: C
  53. Which of the following statements about gender budgeting are correct? Select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
  54. The traditional home of patronage bureaucracy is: · Ans: B
  55. Who among the following coined the term 'representative bureaucracy'? · Ans: A
  56. What is the correct sequence of F. M. Marx's classification of bureaucracy? · Ans: C
  57. Who among the following do not make a distinction between public and private administration? · Ans: D
  58. The 'Garbage Can Model' was developed by: · Ans: B
  59. 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: A
  60. Who among the following remained Chairman of the Comparative Administrative Group in the United States of America for 10 years? · Ans: C
  61. Which one of the following is not a staff agency in the USA? · Ans: A
  62. The literature on New Public Administration lays emphasis on which of the following? · Ans: D
  63. Who among the following is not associated with evolving the principles of organisation? · Ans: B
  64. The 'one best way' in scientific management means: · Ans: D
  65. Who among the following laid down the 'Seven Principles of Organisation'? · Ans: A
  66. Which one of the following is not a principle of organisation? · Ans: D
  67. In an informal organisation, authority always flows: · Ans: D
  68. Which scholar said, 'International politics includes analysis of political relations and problems of peace among nations'? · Ans: D
  69. Match List I (Books) with List II (Authors) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  70. Which of the following scholars maintained the view that 'the end of the Cold War represented the victory of the ideal state and liberal capitalism'? · Ans: C
  71. Match List I (Events) with List II (Dates) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  72. Which of the following is true of modern liberalism? Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
  73. Who among the following is associated with Democratic Peace Theory? · Ans: B
  74. Marshall Plan, 1947 was also formerly known as · Ans: C
  75. Which of the following terms of International relationships was coined by Nicholas Onuf in his book 'World of Our Making'? · Ans: D
  76. Match List I (Authors) with List II (Books) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  77. According to K.J. Holsti, which one of the following is not a feature of the contemporary state system? · Ans: D
  78. Economic diplomacy is also termed as · Ans: D
  79. Which of the following is not a technique to exercise National Power? · Ans: D
  80. Who is given the credit for coining the term 'Soft Power'? · Ans: A
  81. Which country is an example of latent nuclear capacity? · Ans: B
  82. Match List I (Nuclear strategy terms) with List II (Descriptions) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  83. Which of the following statements are correct? Choose the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: D
  84. Which Article of the Charter of the United Nations provides that all members undertake to make available to the Security Council, on its call and in accordance with special agreements, armed forces, assistance and facilities necessary for maintaining… · Ans: C
  85. The roots of the newly emerging forces of globalisation have been traced to specific economic and political developments in the late 1980s or early 1990s. Which of the following cannot be included in this category? · Ans: B
  86. Which of the following is not correct regarding the WTO? · Ans: D
  87. Which of the following statements are correct about the Bandung Conference? Choose the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
  88. Match List I (Regional Organisation) with List II (Region) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  89. Which of the following are organs of the Organisation of American States? Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: D
  90. Which of the following is NOT an organ of Kautilya's state? · Ans: C
  91. Which of the following is true regarding the Gandhian concept of 'Sarvodaya'? Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
  92. The study of comparative politics became significant after the · Ans: B
  93. Who among the following is regarded as the 'Father of Comparative Politics'? · Ans: B
  94. Which of the following factors are related to load capacity in the Communication Theory? · Ans: D
  95. Political institutionalisation involves · Ans: A
  96. Which countries were the basis of the study of Almond and Verba's 'Civic Culture'? · Ans: C
  97. What are the three types of political culture according to Almond and Verba's study 'Civic Culture'? · Ans: A
  98. Match List I (Authors) with List II (Titles of Books) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
  99. The five stages of economic growth proposed by W.W. Rostow are · Ans: C
  100. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
  101. Which of the following statements is not correct? · Ans: D
  102. Which one of the following statements is not correct? · Ans: D
  103. Which one of the following is not a feature of the United Kingdom judiciary? · Ans: D
  104. The Magna Carta, the Glorious Revolution and the writings of John Locke all contributed to the strengthening of Great Britain's · Ans: C
  105. Which one of the following was the first country to enact a Freedom of the Press Act as early as 1766? · Ans: C
  106. The crises described by Leonard Binder et al. in their book 'Crisis and Sequences in Political Development' are · Ans: D
  107. Which world leader gave a special concept of 'development' after the Second World War? · Ans: B
  108. The theories of modernisation were criticised by which of the following? Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
  109. Match List I (Authors) with List II (Titles) and select the correct answer by using the codes given below. · Ans: D
  110. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  111. Arrange the steps in the working of the general system of proportional representation in the correct sequence. Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
  112. Which one of the following is correctly matched? · Ans: B
  113. Which of the following is not true of pressure groups? · Ans: C

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