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UGC NET July 2016 Political Science — Solved Previous Year Questions

106 previous-year questions from UGC NET July 2016 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. Who among the following said 'Research untutored by theory may prove trivial and theory unsupported by data, futile'? · Ans: C
  2. Who among the following said that political theory stands for an abstract model of the political order? · Ans: C
  3. Which one of the following statements is not true? · Ans: D
  4. Identify the correct sequence in which general systems theory has been adopted in the social sciences. · Ans: B
  5. Who among the following dismissed John Rawls' concept of social justice as a 'mirage'? · Ans: B
  6. Arrange the following works of Amartya Sen in chronological order of their publication. · Ans: A
  7. Which of the following rights is not included in the second generation human rights? · Ans: C
  8. 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
  9. Who among the following said that ideology should neither be thought of as liberating or oppressive, nor as true or false, and that it can be any of these things? · Ans: A
  10. Arrange the following works of Isaiah Berlin in chronological order of his publications. · Ans: C
  11. Which one of the following statements is not true? · Ans: D
  12. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  13. Match List I (Acts) with List II (Provisions) and identify the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  14. Which of the following statements about the Government of India Act, 1935 are not true? · Ans: C
  15. Which of the following Fundamental Rights are granted only to citizens of India? Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: D
  16. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: D
  17. Consider the following statements and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: B
  18. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched? · Ans: B
  19. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  20. Which one of the following statements about the writ of Habeas Corpus is correct? · Ans: C
  21. Which of the following sets of High Courts have benches? · Ans: A
  22. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched? · Ans: C
  23. According to the Supreme Court of India, the foundation of 'composite culture', as mentioned in Clause (f) of Article 51A, is · Ans: A
  24. Consider the following statements about lower courts and identify the false statements from the codes given below. · Ans: C
  25. When was the Inter-State Council under Article 263 of the Constitution of India set up? · Ans: C
  26. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
  27. 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
  28. Scholasticism of Middle Ages sought to establish: · Ans: D
  29. For Plato which of the following statements is not true? · Ans: D
  30. 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
  31. Who among the following said: 'Aristotle's new general science of politics was not only empirical and descriptive, but even in some respects independent of any ethical purpose, since a statesman might need to be expert in governing even… · Ans: B
  32. Match List I (Philosophers) with List II (Ideas) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  33. For Locke, which of the following statements is not true? · Ans: D
  34. 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
  35. For Rousseau, which of the following statements is not true? · Ans: D
  36. Who among the following called Machiavelli's 'Prince' the great and true conception of a real political genius with the highest and noblest purpose? · Ans: C
  37. For J.S. Mill, which of the following statements is not true? · Ans: D
  38. Which one of the following is the correct chronological order of the Committees/Commissions/Reports? · Ans: B
  39. Which of the following statements about the Right to Information Act, 2005 is/are correct? Select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
  40. Which one of the following key components of 'governance' was not identified by the OECD while laying down conditions for receiving economic assistance? · Ans: B
  41. According to Peter Self, the study of public administration developed as an offshoot of which one of the following? · Ans: A
  42. Which one of the following types of bureaucracy exhibits a bias towards party interests? · Ans: C
  43. Summarising the defects of bureaucracy, W. A. Robson did not include: · Ans: B
  44. Cybernetics means: · Ans: D
  45. Taking an extreme view of the distinction between public and private administration, who said that all organisations share public and private features? · Ans: C
  46. Max Weber and Fred W. Riggs have a commonality between them in the context that: · Ans: B
  47. What is common among Duncan Black, Anthony Downs, James Buchanan and Kenneth Arrow? · Ans: A
  48. Match List I (Books) with List II (Authors) and choose the correct option: · Ans: B
  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. The Riggsian Agraria model is characterized by which of the following? · Ans: C
  51. Match List I (Books) with List II (Authors) and choose the correct option: · Ans: C
  52. 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
  53. Which one of the following is not a part of the underlying ideas of the traditional or mechanistic theory of organization? · Ans: D
  54. A horizontal grouping of specialized activities is attained in an organization that is: · Ans: C
  55. The names associated with the behavioural theory of organization are: · Ans: D
  56. Which one of the following was not supported by Taylor in his Scientific Management theory? · 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: B
  58. Which one of the following is not included as a cause for disciplinary action against public servants by L. D. White? · Ans: B
  59. Who among the following thinkers advocated 'effective communication' as a basic prerequisite for the attainment of organizational goals? · Ans: C
  60. Chester Barnard developed a concept regarding the acceptance of authority by a subordinate from his manager. Identify it. · Ans: C
  61. Upward communications are basically unconventional, but can be improved by which of the following? · Ans: B
  62. Who among the following argued that 'realism is likely to remain the single most useful instrument in our intellectual toolbox'? · Ans: D
  63. 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
  64. The modern state system with its territorial sovereignty came into existence first in Europe in the wake of the · Ans: C
  65. Which of the following is not a basic norm of the balance of power system that is clear to each of the state actors engaged in the process of balancing? · Ans: D
  66. Match List I (Scholars) with List II (Statements on power) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  67. 'Balance of Power' is an important principle of · Ans: D
  68. According to Iris L. Claude Jr., which one of the following is not a device for the management of power? · Ans: A
  69. According to Karen Mingst, which of the following conditions is not essential to make first-generation peacekeeping operations most effective? · Ans: B
  70. Match List I (Terms) with List II (Contents) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  71. Article 25 of the Charter of the United Nations provides that · Ans: C
  72. Which of the following has not been incorporated into Indian law, either fully or partially? · Ans: B
  73. Which of the following statements is not correct regarding the International Criminal Court? · Ans: A
  74. In which year did the UN General Assembly adopt the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities? · Ans: A
  75. Match List I (Committees of the General Assembly) with List II (Issues) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  76. Match List I (Secretaries-General of the UN) with List II (Tenure) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  77. Which one of the following UN peacekeeping operations is not an example of first-generation peacekeeping operations? · Ans: A
  78. The 'Uniting for Peace' Resolution is also called the · Ans: C
  79. Which of the following statements are correct regarding the Economic and Social Council of the UN? Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
  80. Who among the following declared that the state is retreating in the face of the superior power of globalization? · Ans: D
  81. How many Asian countries are members of the G-20? · Ans: D
  82. How many ways of embezzlement of government money have been mentioned by Kautilya in his Arthashastra? · Ans: B
  83. 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
  84. Who among the following said, 'Most religious men I have met are politicians in disguise; I, however, who wear the guise of a politician, am at heart a religious man'? · Ans: C
  85. Who among the following is associated with the initial stages in the growth of comparative politics? · Ans: B
  86. Who among the following were associated with the institutional approach? · Ans: B
  87. Identify the correct sequence of the following input functions. · Ans: C
  88. Arrange the following revolutions in the sequence in which they took place. · Ans: C
  89. The term 'legitimation crisis', as the erosion of confidence in public institutions resulting in the coercive apparatus of states, was developed by · Ans: D
  90. 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
  91. Who became the first ever Prime Minister in a parliamentary government? · Ans: D
  92. Which of the following is not true of a Constitution? · Ans: C
  93. Which of the following is or are the common feature(s) between the Indian political system and the US political system? · Ans: D
  94. Which of the following are true of the Presidential system of government? · Ans: A
  95. Which of the following Houses has had the longest speeches by its members? · Ans: C
  96. Which of the following statements are correct about the Vice-Presidents of India and America? · Ans: A
  97. Which branch of comparative politics seeks to examine the formal and informal mechanisms by which political attitudes are inculcated? · Ans: A
  98. Who among the following contended that political development is administrative and legal development? · Ans: A
  99. Identify the basic contentions of Dependency theory. Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
  100. Which of the following constitutes the political elite? · Ans: D
  101. 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
  102. Who among the following are European thinkers associated with the theory of political elites? · Ans: A
  103. Match List I (Writers) with List II (Concepts/Models) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
  104. In a single transferable vote system, each voter is required to · Ans: C
  105. Who among the following do not make any distinction between interest groups and pressure groups? · Ans: D
  106. Which one of the following characteristics is not true of anomic interest groups? · Ans: B

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