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UGC NET November 2021 Political Science — Solved Previous Year Questions

84 previous-year questions from UGC NET November 2021 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 are not supporters of positive liberty? · Ans: C
2. Which one of the following statements is true? · Ans: B
3. 'We are witnessing the end of history as such that is, the endpoint of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government'. Whose thesis is this? · Ans: C
4. Which of the following are the schools of 'New Right' Ideology? · Ans: A
5. In which aspect does Modern Liberalism not believe? · Ans: A
6. Who has been the most prominent among the Chicago school economists? · Ans: D
7. How was early liberalism characterized by C. B. Macpherson? · Ans: C
8. 'Revolutionary violence is not just cathartic but is noble. It also allows the colonial subjects to recreate themselves'. Whose statement is this? · Ans: A
9. Arrange the ideological focus of the Feminist movement under different stages in chronological order. · Ans: A
10. Match List I with List II. · Ans: C
11. What are the central beliefs of conservatism? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: A
12. What is the importance of leadership in a social movement? · Ans: D
13. Arrange the following labour unions according to the year of their formation in descending order. · Ans: C
14. Match List I (Author) with List II (Books) and choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: A
15. Labour movements in India suffer from · Ans: B
16. Which of the following does not characterise electoral politics in India today? · Ans: D
17. Arrange the following in a chronological order: · Ans: B
18. Who among the following referred to the Constituent Assembly of India as 'Microcosm in action'? · Ans: B
19. Which among the following statements regarding citizenship in India is not correct? · Ans: A
20. By which Constitutional Amendment the words 'Socialist, Secular' and 'Integrity' were incorporated in our Constitution? · Ans: B
21. Which of the following is not provided to the Indian diaspora under the 'Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) scheme'? · Ans: B
22. How long can the Vice-President act as President, when the office of President falls vacant? · Ans: C
23. Which of the following are the exclusive powers of the Lok Sabha? · Ans: B
24. Match List I with List II and choose the correct option from the codes given below. · Ans: C
25. Given below are two statements, one labeled as Assertion (A) and the other labeled as Reason (R). In light of the statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
26. 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: B
27. The superintendence, direction and control of elections to be vested in an Election Commission (Article 324 of the Constitution of India) came into force on: · Ans: D
28. The Comptroller and Auditor-General of India can undertake evaluation studies on the basis of which of the following? · Ans: D
29. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: D
30. Who amongst the following wrote The Art of War? · Ans: B
31. Who amongst the following stated that life is 'a perpetual and restless desire for power after power that ceaseth only in death'? · Ans: B
32. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
33. Which of the following statements about Hegel are true? · Ans: A
34. Which of the following aspects have been defended by J.S. Mill? · Ans: A
35. Who considered bureaucracy as the 'State's consciousness'? · Ans: B
36. Which one of the following theories is not related to Marx? · Ans: B
37. The social position of women vis-a-vis the family can be judged by which nature of the family? · Ans: B
38. Write the full name of Engels' book 'Origins'. · Ans: D
39. Prior to Marx, which political thinker had a gender bias in his writings? · Ans: A
40. What has been the general understanding about women's emancipation under Marxian philosophy? · Ans: B
41. According to Karl Marx, women's emancipation can be judged from which of the following? · Ans: C
42. Arrange the following works of Hannah Arendt in ascending order of their publication. · Ans: A
43. 'Budget is a document containing a preliminary approved plan of public revenue and expenditure.' Whose definition is this? · Ans: B
44. Which one of the following functions is not the concern of the local government? · 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: B
46. Which of the following were/are wage development and infrastructure development programmes? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
47. Who coined the famous acronym 'POSDCORB'? · Ans: B
48. Match List I with List II and choose the correct option: · Ans: C
49. Which of the following statements is incorrect about the 'Human Relations Theory'? · Ans: A
50. Performance budget reflects how well a government entity is meeting its goals and objectives. Which of the following are the central points of performance budgeting? · Ans: B
51. Who is called the father of 'Comparative Public Administration'? · Ans: D
52. Who wrote the book 'Reinventing Government' (1992)? · Ans: B
53. Rensis Likert identified four systems of management on the basis of the nature of authority and control of organization. Arrange them in ascending order of efficiency: · Ans: D
54. McGregor, in his celebrated text 'The Human Side of Enterprise', gave his famous theoretical assumptions. Which of the following are the correct assumptions? · Ans: C
55. Which of the following are the ideas advanced by Mary Parker Follett? · Ans: C
56. Which among the following scholars propounded the 'systems approach towards the study of International Relations'? · Ans: C
57. Which one of the following is not the core issue related to the neo-realist theory of International Relations? · Ans: C
58. Match List I (India-US agreements) with List II (Year) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
59. Match List I (Treaties) with List II (Year) and choose the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: D
60. Arrange the following international treaties in chronological order. Choose the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
61. India is not a member of which multilateral export-control regime? · Ans: C
62. Given below are two statements. In light of the statements, choose the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
63. Which among the following are reasons for the emergence of neo-colonialism? Choose the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
64. Which of the following features are given in the UN Charter for the preservation of peace? Choose the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
65. In 1989, the World Bank conceptualized 'governance' in the context of which of the following? · Ans: C
66. Which one of the following is not a feature of 'Sustainable Development'? · Ans: D
67. Which of the following statements about Bal Gangadhar Tilak are true? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: B
68. 'We will get nothing by appealing to or shouting hoarse in the ears of the British Bureaucracy in India.' Who said this? · Ans: B
69. Periyar E.V. Ramaswamy argued in favour of: · Ans: C
70. Which one of the following is NOT a part of the political philosophy of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay? · Ans: A
71. Match List I (Books) with List II (Author) and choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: C
72. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: A
73. Arrange the following books written by B.R. Ambedkar in ascending order. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: B
74. Sri Aurobindo conceives nationalism as which of the following? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: A
75. Which of the following are prerequisites of the comparative method? · Ans: C
76. Match List I with List II and choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: C
77. Which of the following are related to Karl W. Deutsch's approach of communication in Comparative Politics? · Ans: A
78. Match List I (Forms of Government) with List II (Essential features) and choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: B
79. Which one of the following is not a characteristic of constitutionalism? · Ans: C
80. Who among the following dependency theorists added the concept of 'Semi-Periphery'? · Ans: C
81. Which of the following are true about the world system theory? · Ans: A
82. Which one of the following is not a function of political parties? · Ans: D
83. Which one of the following statements does not characterise a social action group? · Ans: A
84. Who among the following distinguished between the interest articulation function and other anomic group functions? · Ans: D

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