According to Almond and Verba, the civic culture:
A. Inhibits the stability of liberal democracies
B. Is unconnected to the stability of liberal democracies
C. Contributes to the stability of liberal democracies
D. Is incompatible with the stability of liberal democracies
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The progressive comparativists in political development do not emphasise in one of the following
A. Under development
B. Dependency
C. Imperialism
D. Modernisation
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Anomic Pressure Groups are those groups.
A. Which perform the role of interest articulation by publicising protests in order to exert pressure on policy-makers for changing particular policies and decisions
B. Which perform the role of interest articulation by associating themselves with certain political parties
C. Which perform the role of interest articulation from the political platform
D. None of the above
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Who among the following has propounded the theory of relative deprivation?
A. Gurr
B. Nesvold
C. Marx
D. Both A and B
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Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R) . Select the correct answer:
Assertion (A) Institutional approach can help in mapping the landscape of politics.
Reason (R) The goal of institutional approach is to reconcile the competing values of individual freedom and collective equality.
A. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
B. Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A
C. A is true, but R is false
D. A is false, but R is true
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Which of the following is not a character of Comparative Politics?
A. Comparative politics is the modern way of studying politics
B. Comparative Politics has a very wide and comprehensives cope
C. Comparative Politics depends upon scientific empirical methods of study
D. Comparative politics has a very narrow scope
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Who stated that "a realistic survey of the British Constitution today must begin and end with parties and discuss them at length in the middle"?
A. K. C. Wheare
B. W. B. Munro
C. Ivor Jennings
D. None of the above
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Max Weber's definition of Politics implies a focus on . . . . . . . . in the context of national as well as international politics.
A. Power
B. State
C. Society
D. Democracy
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Who divides the field of administrative law into the law of internal administration and the law of external administration?
A. Goodnow
B. Dicey
C. James Hart
D. Morgan
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Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
A. Democratic theory ⇔ C. B. Macpherson
B. Freedom ⇔ Maurice Cranston
C. The Tyranny of Majority ⇔ L. T. Hobhouse
D. Problems of Political Philosophy ⇔ D. D. Rapheal
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Since mid-1950s, the major trends in comparative politics have been in the areas of
1. System theories
2. Culture theories
3. Development theories
4. Class theories
Select the correct answer:
A. 1 and 3
B. 1, 2 and 3
C. 1, 3 and 4
D. 1, 2, 3 and 4
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Assertion (A): Democracy demands that the people should have a high level of intelligence and a sound system of education.
Reason (R): If the people do not possess the spirit of 'normal reasonableness' democracy degenerates into mob rule which is set aside by dictatorship.
A. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
B. Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
C. A is true but R is false
D. A is false but R is true
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What are the three types of political culture according to Almond and Verba's study 'Civil Culture'?
A. Parochial, Subject, Participant
B. Citizen, Communal, Democratic
C. Associative, Adjudicative, Parochial
D. Feudal, Semi-feudal, Democratic
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Clash of Civilisations' is a work of who among the following political scientists in comparative political analysis?
A. Almond and Powell
B. Samuel P. Huntington
C. S. M. Lipset
D. None of these
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"Whenever any form of Government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government." - The American Declaration of Independence, 1776.
Which of the following is implied in the above statement?
A. Right to recall
B. Right to carry out armed insurrection
C. Right to electoral boycott
D. Right to revolution
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In the year 1960, application of structural functionalism by Almond and Powell was an application of
A. Easton's Framework of Political System
B. Dahl's Polyarely
C. Lucian Pye's Modernisation Theory
D. Rostow's Theory of Stapes of Growth
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In which year the General Assembly of United Nations adopted its landmark Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries?
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Who considers revolution to be 'a rapid, fundamental and violent domestic change in the dominant values and myths of a society'?
A. Petee
B. Kuhn
C. Brinton
D. Huntington
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Who was one of the first among the modern political scientists to challenge the traditional approaches?
A. Freud
B. Lasswell
C. Bernard Crick
D. Charles Merriam
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Match the following in the term of
Book and
Author .
List-I (Book)
List-II (Author)
a. lnterest groups in American Society
1. H. W. Ehrann
b. Interest groups of four continents
2. H. Zeigler
c. Anonymous Empire
3. Graham Wallas
d. Human Nature in Politics
4. Samuel Finer
A. a-1, b-2, c-3, d-4
B. a-2, b-3, c-1, d-4
C. a-3, b-4, c-2, d-1
D. a-2, b-1, c-4, d-3
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