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UGC NET January 2017 Political Science — Solved Previous Year Questions

117 previous-year questions from UGC NET January 2017 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 statements is not true? · Ans: D
  2. Who of the following said, "An important function of Political theory is not only to show what a political practice is but also to show what it means. In showing what a practice means, or what it ought… · Ans: A
  3. Who among the following emphasized the 'procedural theory of democracy' highlighting three criteria? · Ans: B
  4. 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
  5. Which of the following is not an essential prerequisite for making elitism compatible with democracy in Schumpeter? · Ans: D
  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: B
  7. 'Power is like money', is formulated by · Ans: C
  8. Who among the following said, 'Ideology is the most elusive concept in the whole of Social Science'? · Ans: B
  9. Who among the following described the welfare state as a kind of enslavement? · Ans: C
  10. Which one of the following statements is not true in the case of Liberalism? · Ans: C
  11. Who among the following disputed the view that human behaviour could be adequately described without reference to the intentions, motives and reasons of the actors involved? · Ans: A
  12. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
  13. In India, the term deficit financing was first defined by · Ans: A
  14. Who described the critical and creative role of politics in India as 'the Indian model of development'? · Ans: A
  15. Who among the following made a significant contribution to theories of the interaction between social dominance and state power in contemporary India? · Ans: A
  16. Who described Indian capitalism as 'Dharmashala Capitalism'? · Ans: D
  17. Arrange the following peasant movements in India in chronological order. · Ans: B
  18. When did the Communist Party of India (Marxist) emerge as a separate political party? · Ans: B
  19. Which of the following newspapers is managed by a trust in India? · Ans: D
  20. Regarding the Interim Government of 1946, which of the following is not correct? · Ans: A
  21. Who said, 'The Constituent Assembly was a one party body in an essentially one party country. The Assembly was the Congress and the Congress was India'? · Ans: C
  22. Given below are two statements, one labeled as Assertion (A) and the other labeled as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
  23. Match the List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  24. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  25. Which of the following have been identified as the ground for judicial review in the exercise of power of pardon by the President of India or Governor of a state? · Ans: D
  26. Which one of the following ministries is an example of ministry formed on the basis of clientele principle? · Ans: C
  27. Who was the first President of India to make use of 'Pocket Veto'? · Ans: D
  28. Who among the former Prime Ministers had observed that 'only a committed bureaucracy could bring about social transformation'? · Ans: C
  29. Which of the following is the nodal agency for budget implementation in India? · Ans: C
  30. Which one of the following statements is not correct regarding Certiorari? · Ans: B
  31. In which one of the following cases did the Supreme Court of India use the principle of 'Continuing Mandamus'? · Ans: C
  32. Who said that federalism requires people 'who desire union and must not desire unity'? · Ans: B
  33. Identify the correct chronological order of the developments of events related to federalism in India. · Ans: D
  34. Which of the following statements about the Right to Negative Vote (NOTA) is/are correct? · Ans: D
  35. Which of the following are the compulsory provisions of the 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act (1992)? · Ans: C
  36. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
  37. Which of the following are statutory bodies? · Ans: B
  38. Which of the following statements is true about the Constitution of PK Thungan Committee? · Ans: A
  39. Who was the Chairman of the Group of Interlocutors for Jammu and Kashmir? · Ans: B
  40. Which one of the following is not a source of Plato's theory of Ideas? · Ans: B
  41. Match the List I (Plato's Dialogues) with List II (Main Themes) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  42. Match the List I (Aristotle's theory of causation) with List II (Explanations) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
  43. 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
  44. 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
  45. Whose ideas of the following were incorporated in the Philosophical radicalism of utilitarianism? · Ans: B
  46. 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
  47. 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
  48. Who among the following argued that 'the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will, is to prevent harm to others'? · Ans: C
  49. 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
  50. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  51. Who believed that the success of a revolution occurs when it is limited to the political and not extending to the social? · Ans: C
  52. Which one of the following features of Rawls's concept of the 'veil of ignorance' is not true? · Ans: C
  53. Match List I (Author) with List II (Work or concept) and select the correct answer using the codes given below. · Ans: A
  54. 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: D
  55. Which of the following have been identified by the Second Administrative Reforms Commission as barriers to citizen-centric administration in India? Select the correct answer from the codes given below: · 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: A
  57. E-Governance is which of the following? Select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
  58. Which one of the following Commissions/Committees has recommended legal protection to whistle blowers? · Ans: B
  59. Match List I (Events) with List II (Years) and identify the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: B
  60. Which of the following types of bureaucracy regards itself as the custodian of public interest but is independent of and unresponsive to public opinion? · Ans: D
  61. Which one of the following stages of evolution of public administration is called the era of Politics-administration dichotomy? · Ans: A
  62. Arrange the following approaches to the study of Public Administration in a sequential order: · Ans: D
  63. Which of the following are the salient features of New Public Management? · Ans: C
  64. Who among the following are of the view that the managerial techniques and skills of planning, organizing, coordinating and budgeting are the same in both Public and Private Administration? · Ans: D
  65. 'Squealer' in the Human Relations theory is: · Ans: D
  66. Who among the following has defined a budget as 'a series of goals with price tags attached'? · Ans: A
  67. Who among the following is the creator of Zero-Based Budgeting? · Ans: B
  68. Who among the following hold the view that administration comprises the work of only those persons who are engaged in performing managerial functions in an organization? · Ans: D
  69. Match List I (Work) with List II (Author) and choose the correct option: · Ans: A
  70. Match List I (Writers) with List II (Ideas) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
  71. Who of the following belongs to the British School of Realism? · Ans: D
  72. At the end of Cold War Francis Fukuyama constructed the thesis of 'end of history' which meant · Ans: C
  73. Which of the events mentioned below is taken as signalling the end of Cold War? · Ans: B
  74. Which one of the following was not visualized by Morton Kaplan? · Ans: D
  75. The US stopped cultivating ties with the Taliban regime in Afghanistan after · Ans: B
  76. The notion of 'Balance of Terror' is related to · Ans: D
  77. Which one of the following is not a major assumption of the balance of power? · Ans: D
  78. Which one of the following is not a technique of the balance of power? · Ans: C
  79. In 1999, NATO acted against Serbia accusing it of 'ethnic cleansing' in Kosovo. To this, major powers such as Russia and China reacted as · Ans: C
  80. Which one of the following was not a basis invoked by the US for attacking Iraq in March 2003? · Ans: D
  81. Which Republic/Republics was/were supported by Russia in the Georgian war of 2008? · Ans: B
  82. The Sir John Chilcot Commission indicted · Ans: B
  83. Match List I (Treaties) with List II (Year) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  84. Which of the following is not a specialised agency of the United Nations? · Ans: D
  85. As per the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), states are entitled to jurisdiction over sea waters as · Ans: D
  86. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
  87. The Washington Consensus did not stand for · Ans: D
  88. NATO's Partnership for Peace programme was aimed at · Ans: A
  89. The renaming of the European Community (EC) to the European Union resulted from the signing of the · Ans: A
  90. Which country or countries refused to accept legally binding emission cuts following the Kyoto Protocol? · Ans: C
  91. The 'common but differentiated' responsibility principle on the climate mitigation agenda emerged from the · Ans: B
  92. Which leader of the USSR introduced the policy of 'peaceful co-existence'? · Ans: B
  93. Who among the following statesmen described the USSR as an 'evil empire'? · Ans: B
  94. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  95. Which of the following statements is NOT true in the case of M.N. Roy? · Ans: D
  96. Arrange the following works of Sri Aurobindo in chronological order. Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  97. E.M.S. Namboodiripad's book 'The Mahatma and the Ism' is an analysis of Mahatma Gandhi from the point of view of: · Ans: D
  98. Who among the following declared, 'For me morals, ethics and religion are convertible terms. A moral life without reference to religion is like a house built upon sand'? · Ans: C
  99. In the year 1960, application of structural functionalism by Almond and Powell was an application of · Ans: A
  100. 'Economics is value free, but political economy originates in the context of the ideological debate of the eighteenth century' is a comment made by · Ans: C
  101. The first use of the concept of political culture was made by · Ans: A
  102. The progressive comparatists in political development do not emphasise one of the following · Ans: D
  103. The assertion that there is no direct connection between the shape of a political culture and the stability of governance is made by · Ans: A
  104. The ability of the US President to get their way depends on four crucial relationships: the Congress, the Federal Bureaucracy, the Supreme Court and the Mass Media. Which of these is undoubtedly the most critical? · Ans: A
  105. Which of the following is not an integral part of liberal constitutionalism? · Ans: C
  106. The Presidential system operates most successfully in the USA because of · Ans: D
  107. The House of Lords in Great Britain is mainly retained because · Ans: D
  108. 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
  109. The growth of judicial power over the last one hundred years in liberal democracies has taken place because of · Ans: D
  110. Which one of the following is not a formulation of Max Weber? · Ans: C
  111. Which of the following statements is or are not true of Dependency theory? · Ans: D
  112. The capitalist world economy is made up of 'commodity chains' of producers and consumers, sellers and buyers linking countries in the core of the world economy. This is the basis of · Ans: D
  113. The Theory of Modernisation and Decay is formulated by · Ans: C
  114. C. Wright Mills' 'The Power Elite' (1956) offered a general analysis of elites in · Ans: D
  115. The 'catch-all party' describes the post-Second World War party system in · Ans: A
  116. Environmental green parties originated from · Ans: D
  117. Duverger's theory asserts that a two-party system emerges in · Ans: D

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