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UGC NET November 2017 Political Science — Solved Previous Year Questions

116 previous-year questions from UGC NET November 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. Why was behaviouralism shortlived? · Ans: A
2. The classical tradition in political theory is considered to be a common school of enquiry because · Ans: A
3. Who described the classical tradition as 'Epic theory'? · Ans: C
4. Easton described his drastic revision in political science in 1969 as · Ans: B
5. Who has commented that politics is about diversity and conflict and the essential ingredient of its existence is scarcity? · Ans: B
6. Deliberative democracy is · Ans: C
7. Beliefs and symbols are the distinctive features of the notion of authority in · Ans: D
8. Legitimation crisis as an alternative to the Weberian approach to legitimacy was developed by · Ans: D
9. The essential framework of liberal political economy was provided by · Ans: D
10. Convergence theory pointed out the convergence between · Ans: A
11. Who distinguished the Young Marx from the Old Marx? · Ans: A
12. Who said that revolution means a drastic and sudden substitution of one group in charge of the running of a territorial political entity by another? · Ans: C
13. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched? · Ans: A
14. Which of the following are the main problems of nation building in India? · Ans: C
15. Match List I (States) with List II (State Parties) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
16. Put the following events in their chronological order and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
17. Which of the following parties/groups the Cabinet Mission did not recognise? · Ans: C
18. According to whom the Indian Constitution aimed at the tripartite goal of national unity, democracy and social revolution as three distinct strands interwoven into a 'seamless web'? · Ans: C
19. Which of the following come within the ambit of Article 21 of the Indian Constitution? · Ans: D
20. Which of the following grounds come within the ambit of reasonable restrictions put by the state on the exercise of freedom under Article 19 of the Indian Constitution? · Ans: D
21. Which of the following cases reflect on the elements of the basic structure of the Indian Constitution? Choose the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
22. Consider the following statements about the Vice-President of India and choose the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: C
23. The first attempt to confer constitutional status on rural local government was made by · Ans: A
24. When were the rules regarding department related parliamentary standing committees made in India? · Ans: C
25. 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: A
26. Match List I with List II and give the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
27. Arrange in chronological order the following cases. Choose the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
28. In which state of India is a seat reserved in the Legislative Assembly on a religious basis? · Ans: C
29. Who said Indian federalism is 'a new kind of federation to meet India's peculiar needs'? · Ans: A
30. Who among the following was not a member of the Sarkaria Commission on Centre-State Relations? · Ans: B
31. The Justice Punchhi Commission is related to · Ans: B
32. Which one of the following committees opposed the state funding of elections in India? · Ans: A
33. Since when has the Election Commission of India become a three-member body? · Ans: C
34. Who was the Chief Election Commissioner who wrote a letter to the President of India recommending the removal of an Election Commissioner? · Ans: B
35. Which of the following are the common features between the 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act and the 74th Constitutional Amendment Act? · Ans: B
36. Which committee felt that the Panchayati Raj institutions could have survived well if they had been encouraged well by entrusting many responsibilities as a 'vanguard of development in village India'? · Ans: A
37. 73rd Constitutional Amendment provided for · Ans: A
38. Which of the following statements are correct about the Central Vigilance Commission? · Ans: D
39. The Central Information Commission consists of the Chief Information Commissioner and Information Commissioners · Ans: D
40. Which of the following commission/committees recommended that the financial year should be from 1st January to 31st December? · Ans: A
41. According to Plato, justice is: · Ans: D
42. Aristotle's classification of Constitution was based on the categories of · Ans: A
43. Which of the following is true of Machiavelli's Political theory? · Ans: A
44. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Choose the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
45. Which political thinker rejects Aristotle completely? · Ans: B
46. Power, not right is the focal point for Hobbes. Why? · Ans: D
47. Match List I (Concepts) with List II (Thinkers) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
48. Who questioned the view that Locke was a defender of the Glorious Revolution? · Ans: D
49. Who described Rousseau as a totalitarian democrat? · Ans: D
50. Hegel's dialectical method was · Ans: D
51. Who feared that Marx's dictatorship of the proletariat would become a dictatorship over the proletariat? · Ans: C
52. Match List I (Marx's Writings) with List II (Themes) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
53. 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: C
54. Gramsci characterised fascism as a: · Ans: B
55. Mao's most original contribution was in emphasizing the revolutionary role of the: · Ans: D
56. 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
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 types of training prepares future recruits for the public service? · Ans: C
59. Which of the following are excluded from the RTI Act? Select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: C
60. Which one of the following statements is not correct about the Right to Information Act? · Ans: C
61. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: B
62. Promotion to a higher position involves which of the following? Select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
63. Who among the following rejected the politics-administration dichotomy? · Ans: C
64. Which of the following approaches is the precursor of the Ecological approach? · Ans: C
65. Match List I (Theories) with List II (Thinkers) and choose the correct option: · Ans: D
66. Which of the following combinations does game theory utilise to analyse strategic interaction among decision-makers? · Ans: C
67. Which of the following are the models of reform identified by Peters as alternatives to traditional public administration? · Ans: D
68. Arrange the following administrative thinkers in chronological order: · Ans: A
69. 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
70. Who among the following said, 'Development administration is an action-oriented and goal-oriented administrative system'? · Ans: B
71. Who among the following are the critics of the bureaucratic theory? · Ans: D
72. Who among the following has specified six qualities of an administrator/manager: physical, mental, moral, general education, special knowledge and experience? · Ans: A
73. Who among the following gave the 4P-Formula for departmental organization? · Ans: C
74. Defending policy is the function of: · Ans: A
75. Which of the following is an example of an auxiliary agency? · Ans: D
76. Under Bush Doctrine, the USA held states responsible for activities inside their territories and thus acquired the right to · Ans: A
77. Match List I (Authors) with List II (Books) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
78. Match List I (Doctrines) with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: D
79. Who was of the opinion that survival depends on a state's material capabilities and its alliances with other states? · Ans: B
80. Consider the following statements and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: D
81. Which one of the following is not a Kantian influence that acts as a constraint on war? · Ans: C
82. Match List I (Authors) with List II (Books) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
83. Which of the following statements are true about soft power? Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
84. Which one of the following pairs is mismatched? · Ans: B
85. Consider the following statements with regard to the MTCR. Choose the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
86. Which one of the following is not a criterion of a Just War? · Ans: D
87. Whose presidency in America was marked by the 'War on Terrorism'? · Ans: B
88. Find the incorrect statements about Johan Galtung's models of conflict, violence and peace. Choose the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
89. Match List I (Export-control regimes) with List II (Purpose) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
90. Which one of the following is not part of the 'Three Pillars' of R2P (Responsibility to Protect)? · Ans: C
91. Consider the following statements with regard to the Non-Aligned Movement. Choose the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
92. Which one of the following statements is incorrect? · Ans: D
93. Who said 'Kautilya's Arthashastra exemplified radical Machiavellianism, compared to which Machiavelli's The Prince is harmless'? · Ans: A
94. The Roy-Lenin debate centred around which of the following? · Ans: D
95. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Read the statements and choose the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
96. How did Gandhi describe himself? · Ans: A
97. 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
98. 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
99. Which century according to Easton is 'The Age of Scientific Method'? · Ans: C
100. Which of the following is true of Aristotle's contribution to comparative method? · Ans: B
101. New institutionalism emphasises on · Ans: A
102. Subject-participatory culture was associated with · Ans: A
103. Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
104. Which one of the following countries follows a semi-presidential system? · Ans: D
105. What has mainly accounted for the evolution of the unwritten Constitution of Great Britain? · Ans: D
106. In which country is the practice of 'once a speaker, always a speaker' followed? · Ans: B
107. The Supreme Court's right to judicial review was first established in · Ans: A
108. In which of the following countries have individual citizens' rights developed by the significant intervention of the judiciary? · Ans: C
109. Political socialization deals with · Ans: A
110. Bureaucratic authoritarianism is a variant of · Ans: A
111. Which theory held that as societies developed they would become capitalist democracies converging around a shared set of values and characteristics? · Ans: C
112. Huntington criticises modernisation theory for not taking into account · Ans: A
113. Who among the following provided an economic approach to elitism? · Ans: D
114. Match List I (Electoral Systems) with List II (Countries) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: D
115. Who challenged the established view that in Great Britain the Conservative Party was elitist and leader-dominated while the Labour Party was characterised by a high measure of internal democracy? · Ans: B
116. Match List I (Type of Pressure Groups) with List II (Name of Pressure Groups) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B

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