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UGC NET December 2023 Political Science — Solved Previous Year Questions

58 previous-year questions from UGC NET December 2023 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. What is it that the 'New Right' does not associate with 'self-supporting' as a civic virtue? · Ans: C
2. How does the welfare state promote passivity in the poor? · Ans: B
3. How does the market inculcate civic virtue according to New Right theorists? · Ans: C
4. Which of the aspects given below is not a direction favoured by the Thatcher/Reagan reforms? · Ans: C
5. Which is not a source of civic virtue among the following? · Ans: A
6. 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: C
7. Which of the following is not a principle of Nozick's 'entitlement theory'? · Ans: C
8. Who among the following thinkers is not associated with Feminist Theory? · Ans: C
9. Which of the following is not, according to Bhikhu Parekh, a question usually ignored by Indian political thought? · Ans: C
10. Find out the correct one with regard to Atul Kohli's distinction between pro-market and pro-business state intervention in India in 1980s: · Ans: D
11. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
12. Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) pioneered which movement in India? · Ans: C
13. The Linguistic Provinces Commission that was formed to advise the Constituent Assembly was popularly known as · Ans: A
14. Who among the following vice-presidents of India later became the president of the country? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
15. Aristotle criticized popular rule on the ground that masses would resent the wealth of the few, and too easily, fall under the sway of the following: · Ans: C
16. Match List I (Labelled as) with List II (Code of Conduct) and choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
17. Arrange the following committees with regards to corruption and administrative reforms in India chronologically. Choose the correct option from given below: · Ans: C
18. Citizens' charter was first articulated and implemented in the UK as a national programme in which year? · Ans: B
19. 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
20. Who introduced to organizations the concepts of the 40-hour week, time and motion studies and piece-rate compensation systems, as well as 'a fair day's work for a fair day's pay'? · Ans: B
21. Who among the following came out with the innovative idea of 'constructive conflict'? · Ans: A
22. Who wrote the book 'Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices'? · Ans: B
23. Match List I (Authors) with List II (Concepts) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
24. Which event led George W. Bush to transform his foreign policy into one of global power projection and interventionism? · Ans: B
25. Who found eight distinct meanings for the term 'Balance of Power'? · Ans: A
26. Who said that statesmen 'think and act in terms of interest defined as power'? · Ans: A
27. Choose the correct statements from the following about weapons of mass destruction. · Ans: C
28. Choose the correct statements from the following. Choose the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
29. Arrange the following Directors-General of the WTO who held office in ascending order. Choose the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
30. Based on the passage, which of the following is the reason for the formation of the G20? · Ans: B
31. Based on the passage, why has India taken an active interest in the G20? · Ans: B
32. Based on the passage, why is the G20 considered a representative forum? · Ans: C
33. Based on the passage, which of the following is an objective of the G20? · Ans: A
34. Based on the passage, what is the significance of the recently concluded G20 summit? · Ans: D
35. Arrange chronologically India's association with the following international organisations. Choose the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
36. Name the country that does not fall within the 'Asian Tiger' economies. · Ans: D
37. In which year was the UN climate change conference commonly known as the Copenhagen Summit held? · Ans: A
38. According to Manu, which of the following is NOT a foundation of diplomacy and statecraft? · Ans: A
39. Who has stated that religion is the real criterion of Manu's state-polity? · Ans: B
40. Which of the following thinkers is associated with 'syncretism'? · Ans: A
41. What is true about the following statements related to Ram Manohar Lohia? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: B
42. B.R. Ambedkar demanded a separate electorate for the depressed classes in which of the following events? · Ans: B
43. Arrange these life events of Aurobindo in chronological order. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
44. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below. · Ans: A
45. What is the main argument of philosophical anarchism? · Ans: B
46. Which of the following did NOT feature as a matter of debate between Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore? · Ans: D
47. Who of the following described Kabir as 'Muktidoot'? · Ans: B
48. Which of the following aspects of Gandhi's theory of Satyagraha can help in the process of dialogue in plural societies threatened by mutual distrust? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: B
49. Which of the following statements is NOT associated with Mahatma Gandhi? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: B
50. Find out the books written by Mahatma Gandhi from those given below. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
51. Choose the correct statements given below. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
52. Match List I (Books) with List II (Authors) and choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: B
53. The true beginning of the modern state system marked the end of · Ans: B
54. Find out the correct one with regard to a 'failed state'. · Ans: D
55. The present political regime in the Central Asian republic of Tajikistan falls under which of the following categories? · Ans: D
56. Find out the different waves of democratic transition given below in ascending order. · Ans: B
57. The theory that argues 'countries are more likely both to become democratic and to stay democratic as they develop economically' is known as · Ans: C
58. Find out the correct definitions of different scholars on party systems. · Ans: A

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