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UGC NET July 2018 Political Science — Solved Previous Year Questions

90 previous-year questions from UGC NET July 2018 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 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 or otherwise? · 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. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
  24. Who describes the Indian federation as a 'holding together federation' and not a 'coming together federation'? · Ans: A
  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
  33. For Locke, which of the following is not true in case of social contract? · Ans: B
  34. For Rousseau, which one of the following is not true? · Ans: D
  35. 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
  36. Which of the following are features of Marx's theory of surplus value? · Ans: C
  37. Which of the following are Lenin's contributions to Marxist theory? · Ans: B
  38. Which of the following are the benefits of E-governance? Select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
  39. Which one of the following commissions/committees/thinkers has identified 27 modes of corruption? · Ans: D
  40. The Joint Consultative Machinery in India was established on the recommendation of: · Ans: B
  41. Which of the following Commissions/Committees has identified 'weak governance' as the main reason for corruption in India? · Ans: B
  42. The process by which the selected candidate is sent for an appointment is known as: · Ans: C
  43. The report 'Right to Information: Master Key to Good Governance' was submitted by: · Ans: D
  44. Who among the following described bureaucracy as 'The continental nuisance'? · Ans: B
  45. Match List I with List II and choose the correct option: · Ans: A
  46. Who among the following has criticized classical theory as 'homely proverbs, myths, slogans and pompous identities'? · Ans: D
  47. 'Unity of Command' means: · Ans: A
  48. Match List I with List II and choose the correct option: · Ans: B
  49. Which of the following are the features of New Public Management? · Ans: D
  50. What is the correct sequence of Morstein Marx's classification of bureaucracy given below? · Ans: A
  51. Which of the following are the factors determining the length of span of control? · Ans: D
  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. Who among the following said that behaviour in administration should be studied through psycho-analysis? · Ans: C
  54. The Hawthorne experiments belong to the era of: · Ans: D
  55. Who among the following was the first to advance the idea of worker's participation in management? · Ans: D
  56. Who have argued that far from an objective reality, international politics is a 'World of our making'? · Ans: D
  57. Neo-liberals, from their Lockean Universe seek to create international regimes that optimize the · Ans: A
  58. Democratic peace theory has been largely associated with the writings of · Ans: B
  59. Morgenthau's classification of ideologies doesn't include · Ans: D
  60. Which one of the pairs is not correctly matched? · Ans: B
  61. Which one of the following is not part of the four main criteria set out by the 1933 Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of the State? · Ans: C
  62. 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
  63. Which one of the following statements is incorrect? · Ans: D
  64. Consider the following statements about arms control and choose the correct statements from the codes given below. · Ans: B
  65. Which one of the following is the correct sequential order of states becoming acknowledged nuclear powers? · Ans: D
  66. Match List I (Treaties) with List II (Purpose of agreement) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: D
  67. Which Chapter of the United Nations Charter deals with the 'Pacific Settlement of Disputes'? · Ans: A
  68. 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
  69. Consider the following statements. Choose the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  70. Which one of the following statements is NOT correct in the case of Kautilya? · Ans: C
  71. 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
  72. Who said, in the context of the States Reorganisation Commission Report, 'The lambs are shorn of the wool' and 'They are feeling the intensity of cold'? · Ans: B
  73. Who among the following started the two weeklies, the Karmayogin and the Dharma? · Ans: B
  74. Who among the following described comparative politics as primarily concerned with 'parties, interests and leadership structure'? · Ans: C
  75. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Choose the correct answer from the codes. · Ans: B
  76. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched? · Ans: B
  77. Match the items of List I with items of List II by selecting the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  78. Who was the author of the book 'The Presidential Republic'? · Ans: A
  79. Which of the following are true regarding a Unitary System of Government? · Ans: B
  80. Which of the following amendments of the American Constitution laid down 'due process of law' relating to judicial scrutiny of legislative and executive actions? · Ans: A
  81. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched? · Ans: B
  82. 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
  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: B
  84. Who among the following described political development as 'administrative and legal development'? · Ans: D
  85. Match the items of List I (Authors) with List II (Books) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  86. Modernisation is commonly understood as being analogous to · Ans: D
  87. Match the items of List I (Writers) with List II (Concepts) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  88. Arrange the interest groups as given by Gabriel Almond in sequential order. · Ans: A
  89. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched? · Ans: C
  90. Examine the following statements regarding the media and choose the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: D

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