Pol SC IV Question Bank
Pol SC IV Question Bank
Pol SC IV Question Bank
Political Theory
(Paper IV)
13. Which of the following approach is part of traditional approaches to political theory?
(a) Class ( )
(b) Philosophical ( )
(c) Scientific ( )
(d) Liberal ( )
14. Traditional approaches give the most important to the study of
(a) Individual ( )
(b) Community ( )
(c) Family ( )
(d) State ( )
15. Traditional approach to political theory has been criticized on which ground?
(a) Philosophical ( )
(b) Historical ( )
(c) Unscientific ( )
(d) None of the above ( )
21. According to Easton, which of the following is the major tenets of behavioural credo?
(a) Widened the study of political philosophy ( )
(b) Integration of political research with other social science ( )
(c) Deepen the legal approach through legislature ( )
(d) Widened the historical approach ( )
32. Who said, "Political Science begins and ends with the state".
a) David Held ( )
b) Earnest Barker ( )
c) James W. Garner ( )
d) Hobhouse ( )
38. Who made the statement that, “Political theory was political science in the full sense,
and there could be no science without theory”?
(a) Wolin ( )
(b) Germino ( )
(c) Hume ( )
(d) Ferguson ( )
41. Which of the following is not associated with Social Contract theory?
(a) Bentham ( )
(b) Hobbes ( )
(c) John Locke ( )
(d) None of the above ( )
45. Who among the social contract theorist advocate for ‘absolute sovereignty’
a) Bentham ( )
b) Thomas Hobbes ( )
c) Jean Jacques Rousseau ( )
d) Pufendorf ( )
46. Who advocate the theory of natural rights?
(a) John Locke ( )
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru ( )
(c) Plato ( )
(d) Engels ( )
55. “The state is not a mere artificial creation but an institution or natural growth of
historical evolution”, was stated by
(a) Luther ( )
(b) Garner ( )
(c) Plato ( )
(d) King ( )
56. Who said, “kinship creates society and society at length creates the states”
(a) Gettle ( )
(b) Zealot ( )
(c) Garner ( )
(d) Mac Iver ( )
57. Who said, “underlying all other elements in state formation including kinship and
religion is political consciousness, the supreme element”.
(a) Gilchirst ( )
(b) Wolin ( )
(c) Smith ( )
(d) Tagore ( )
60. The author of "The Origin of Family, Private Property and the State" was
(a) Morgan ( )
(b) Thomas Hobbes ( )
(c) Friedrich Engels ( )
(d) John Dunne ( )
70. Which theory challenges the sovereignty of State and regards State as an association
of associations
(a) Monistic theory ( )
(b) Primodialist ( )
(c) Pluralist theory ( )
(d) Marxist theory ( )
73. The statement, “every State is known by the rights that it maintains” is associated
with
(a) T. H. Green ( )
(b) Laski ( )
(c) Lord Bryce ( )
(d) Whitehall ( )
74. Who said, “Over himself, his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign”
(a) Hayek ( )
(b) Merriam ( )
(c) J. S. Mill ( )
(d) Miller ( )
77. Who explained that “Law is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power
in a state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong”
(a) Blackstone ( )
(b) Sabine ( )
(c) Garner ( )
(d) Laski ( )
80. Which regarded as the principle legitimate source of law in modern democratic State
(a) Custom ( )
(b) Superstition ( )
(c) Religion ( )
(d) Legislation ( )
84. Which types of law deals with crime and the legal punishment of criminal offenses
(a) criminal law ( )
(b) conventional law ( )
(c) customary law ( )
(d) civil law ( )
85. One of the aspects of ‘negative relationship’ between law and liberty is
(a) the more the law, the more the liberty ( )
(b) the less the law, the less the liberty ( )
(c) the more the law, the less the liberty ( )
(d) the more the law, the more the rights ( )
87. Which is the types of law that regulates the actions of the people in society and it is
backed by the coercive power of the State.
(a) Civil law
(b) Moral law ( )
(c) National law ( )
(d) International law ( )
89. Who states that, “The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the
law”
(a) Bentham ( )
(b) John Rawls ( )
(c) F. A. Hayek ( )
(d) Macmillan ( )
90. Which is not considered as part and source of international law
(a) Bilateral Treaties ( )
(b) International Convention ( )
(c) Agreement ( )
(d) State legislation ( )
94. The grant of franchise to women on equal terms with men is an assertion of the
principle of
(a) political equality ( )
(b) civil equality ( )
(c) social equality ( )
(d) economic equality ( )
99. J.S. Mill in support of individual liberty had written a book called
(a) An autobiography ( )
(b) Political Obligation ( )
(c) The Rights of Man ( )
(d) On Liberty ( )
111. Who defines, “Equality means equal rights for all the people and the abolition of all
special rights and privileges”?
(a) Green ( )
(b) MacIver ( )
(c) Marshall ( )
(d) Barker ( )
115. Who said that, "The passion for equality made vain the hope for freedom".
(a) Acton ( )
(b) Voltaire ( )
(c) Paine ( )
(d) None of the above ( )
116. The statement "Men cannot become absolutely equal unless they are entirely free"
is associated with
(a) Marshall ( )
(b) Green ( )
(c) Lincoln ( )
(d) Tocqueville ( )
117. Liberty and equality become the two important essences in which form of
government
(a) Democratic ( )
(b) Autocratic ( )
(c) Socialist ( )
(d) Monarchical ( )
118. The exponents of ‘negative relationship’ between liberty and equality holds that
120. Who said, “Rights are those conditions of social life without which no man can
seek in general, to be himself at his best”
(a) Acton ( )
(b) Skinner ( )
(c) Laski ( )
(d) Sartori ( )
123. The rights to participate in the political process without any form of discrimination
is under
(a) economic rights ( )
(b) civic rights ( )
(c) political rights ( )
(d) natural rights ( )
125. The phrase, “every state is known by the rights that it maintains” is developed by
(a) Sabine ( )
(b) Green ( )
(c) Laski ( )
(d) Sabine ( )
128. Who said, “a right is claim recognized by society and enforced by the state”
(a) Bosanquet ( )
(b) Plato ( )
(c) Barker ( )
(d) Marshall ( )
130. The phrase, “All men are created equal and they are endowed by their Creator with
certain inalienable rights” is associated with
131. Which is regarded as one of the basic features of the theory of natural rights
(a) limitation ( )
(b) universality ( )
(c) partiality ( )
(d) artificial ( )
132. Social welfare theory of rights presumes that rights are to be promoted for
(a) welfare of the environmentalist ( )
(b) welfare of the individual ( )
(c) welfare of the industrialist ( )
(d) welfare of the common citizens ( )
133. Who among the following sees individual rights as one of the goal of public policy
to maximize the total welfare of the population?
(a) Utilitarian ( )
(b) Contractualist ( )
(c) Liberalist ( )
(d) Marxist ( )
134. Aristotle concept of justice consists of what is lawful and fair by treating
(a) Unequal equally ( )
(b) Equal unequally ( )
(c) Equal equally and unequal equally ( )
(d) equals equally and unequal unequally ( )
(a) Marx ( )
(b) Rawls ( )
(c) Kant ( )
(d) Dreze ( )
139. Who defined justice as “the virtue by which all people are given their due”
(a) Aquinas ( )
(b) Machiavelli ( )
(c) Augustine ( )
(d) Nelsen ( )
143. Political justice implies the process in which everyone has the liberty to exert their
basic political rights under