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UGC NET July 2018 Political Science — Solved Previous Year Questions

UGC NET · Political Science — 32 previous year questions, each with the answer and an explanation.

1. Which of the following statements is not correct? · Ans: D
2. Which one of the following contentions of Isaiah Berlin is not true in the context of the resurgence of political theory (political philosophy)? · Ans: D
3. Match List I (Authors) with List II (Books). · Ans: A
4. Which of the following are the features of democracy? · Ans: D
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: 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: A
7. Which of the following statements are correct regarding Max Weber's theory of bureaucracy? · Ans: B
8. Which one of the following is not a feature of ideology? · Ans: D
9. Who among the following has written the article 'The Zigzag of Politics'? · Ans: C
10. Who among the following is not a proponent of communitarianism? · Ans: D
11. If Hume and other English liberals hoped to use Congress as a safety-valve, the Congress leaders hoped to use Hume as a lightning-conductor. Who said this? · Ans: C
12. Which of the following was not a feature of the Government of India Act, 1919? · Ans: B
13. Who amongst the following provided a link between pre and post independence institutional framework to study Indian politics? · Ans: C
14. Which of the following is true about the Fundamental Rights under Indian Constitution? · Ans: A
15. Which of the following is not true about the amendment of the Constitution under Article 368? · Ans: C
16. Put the following Presidents of India since 1989 in their chronological order and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
17. Which article of the Indian Constitution empowers the Parliament to make provisions for a contingency when the offices of both the President and the Vice-President fall vacant by reasons of death, resignation, removal o… · Ans: C
18. Which of the following principles evolved from the judgement delivered in the Bommai case in relation to Article 356? · Ans: D
19. Who of the following regard the Supreme Court of India as having a dual personality, a legal institution and a public institution? · Ans: C
20. After independence, the role of the District Magistrate has undergone a substantial change mainly due to · Ans: C
21. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
22. The Governor of a state, in his capacity as Administrator of an adjoining Union Territory, discharges his functions independently of · Ans: D
23. Who describes the Indian federation as a 'holding together federation' and not a 'coming together federation'? · Ans: A
24. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
25. Who calls the Election Commission of India an effective 'bulwark of free and fair elections'? · Ans: B
26. Which of the following are the voluntary provisions of the 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act, 1992? · Ans: D
27. Which committee on Panchayati Raj in India takes of three phases: 'The phase of ascendancy, the phase of stagnation and the phase of decline'? · Ans: C
28. The grounds on which President's Rule has been imposed on the states in India are · Ans: D
29. Who among the following might say that the Republic pictures a utopia not because it is a romance but because Plato intended it to be the start of a scientific attack upon the idea of the good? · Ans: B
30. Match the List I (Sources) with List II (Major Ideas) which influenced Gandhi and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
31. Who among the following said that in order of time state is latter than the family or the individual, but in order of nature, prior to them? · Ans: C
32. Which of the following are revolution? · Ans: D

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