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UGC NET January 2017 Political Science — Solved Previous Year Questions

UGC NET · Political Science — 70 previous year questions, each with the answer and an explanation.

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. 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
4. Which of the following is not an essential prerequisite for making elitism compatible with democracy in Schumpeter? · Ans: D
5. Who among the following emphasized the 'procedural theory of democracy' highlighting three criteria? · Ans: B
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. Match the List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
23. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
24. 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
25. Which one of the following ministries is an example of ministry formed on the basis of clientele principle? · Ans: C
26. Who was the first President of India to make use of 'Pocket Veto'? · Ans: D
27. Who among the former Prime Ministers had observed that 'only a committed bureaucracy could bring about social transformation'? · Ans: C
28. Which of the following is the nodal agency for budget implementation in India? · Ans: C
29. The purpose of an adjournment motion is to · Ans: D
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. 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
35. Which of the following statements about the Right to Negative Vote (NOTA) is/are correct? · Ans: D
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 the compulsory provisions of the 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act (1992)? · Ans: C
38. Which of the following are statutory bodies? · Ans: B
39. Which of the following statements is true about the Constitution of PK Thungan Committee? · Ans: A
40. Who was the Chairman of the Group of Interlocutors for Jammu and Kashmir? · Ans: B
41. Which one of the following is not a source of Plato's theory of Ideas? · Ans: B
42. Match the List I (Plato's Dialogues) with List II (Main Themes) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
43. 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
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. 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
46. Whose ideas of the following were incorporated in the Philosophical radicalism of utilitarianism? · Ans: B
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. 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
49. 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
50. 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
51. 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
52. Who believed that the success of a revolution occurs when it is limited to the political and not extending to the social? · Ans: C
53. Which one of the following features of Rawls's concept of the 'veil of ignorance' is not true? · Ans: C
54. Match List I (Author) with List II (Work or concept) and select the correct answer using the codes given below. · Ans: A
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. 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
58. E-Governance is which of the following? Select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
59. Which one of the following Commissions/Committees has recommended legal protection to whistle blowers? · Ans: B
60. Match List I (Events) with List II (Years) and identify the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: B
61. 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
62. Which one of the following stages of evolution of public administration is called the era of Politics-administration dichotomy? · Ans: A
63. Arrange the following approaches to the study of Public Administration in a sequential order: · Ans: D
64. Which of the following are the salient features of New Public Management? · Ans: C
65. Who among the following is the creator of Zero-Based Budgeting? · Ans: B
66. 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
67. 'Squealer' in the Human Relations theory is: · Ans: D
68. Who among the following has defined a budget as 'a series of goals with price tags attached'? · Ans: A
69. 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
70. Match List I (Work) with List II (Author) and choose the correct option: · Ans: A

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