What marked Greece as an independent nation?
A. Treaty of Constartirople, 1832
B. Treaty of Vienna, 1815
C. Treaty of Versailles, 1871
D. None of the above
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Indirect military control ranging from arbitration to army veto is prevalent in some . . . . . . . . countries.
A. pseudo-democratic
B. democratic
C. republic
D. monarchial
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An Ombudsman is a public official who:
A. offers political advice to ministers
B. investigates allegations of maladministration
C. makes judgements on administrative law
D. supervises recruitment of the bureaucracy
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In which year Universal adult franchise was introduced in Germany?
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"Federal government is a device by which the federal qualities of society are articulated and protected." Who said this statement?
A. Wheare
B. Dicey
C. Friedrich
D. Livingston
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Which of the following is not correctly matched?
A. R. Dahrendorf ⟺ Class and class Conflict in Industrial Society
B. Ebenstein ⟺ Today's Isms
C. Antony Giddens ⟺ The Class Structure of the Advanced Societies
D. Karl Popper ⟺ The Poverty of Philosophy
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What is meant by 'Defection'?
A. Loyalty towards a party
B. Changing party allegiance
C. Political reform
D. None of these
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The "Iron Law of Oligarchy" was propounded by:
A. James Burnham
B. Robert Michels
C. Gaetano Mosca
D. Graham Wallas
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A revolution is certainly a result of
A. Political disequilibrium
B. Economic disequilibrium
C. Class disequilibrium
D. Social disequilibrium
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Who made the most significant contribution to the study of revolution in modem times?
A. Marx
B. Lenin
C. Moore
D. Johnson
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. . . . . . . . further, provide for a state of emergency.
A. Article-359
B. Article-340
C. Article-360
D. Article-352
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The non-communists country,
A. Nazi Germany
B. Paris
C. Africa
D. America
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Anderson identifies, . . . . . . . . model that were available for emulation,
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Match the following.
List-I
List-II
a. Duverger
1. Dilemma of new nation
b. Ceylon
2. Political parties
c. Sartori
3. Party politics
d. Jenning
4. Polarised pluralism
A. a-1, b-2, c-3, d-4
B. a-1, b-2, c-4, d-3
C. a-2, b-1, c-3, d-4
D. a-2, b-1, c-4, d-3
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Decolonisaton was the consequence of independence movements in . . . . . . . .
A. Western territories
B. European territories
C. Post-colonised territories
D. Colonised territories
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Who made the statements? "Political socialisation is the process by which political cultures are formed, maintained and changed".
A. Deutsch
B. Laswell
C. Almond
D. Easton
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Who said that "the social revolution is an ongoing process in which causes and effects are dialectically related"?
A. Huntington
B. Karl Marx
C. Johnson
D. Miliband
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The socio-cultural economic force/forces which made cardinal contribution of the birth and development of liberalism were:
A. Renaissance and Reformation
B. Enlightenment
C. Scientific and Industrial Revolutions
D. All of the above
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Assertion (A): The existence of a single political party is antithetical to democracy.
Reason (R): The essence of democracy is its hospitality to all kinds of opinions and so one party state is diametrically opposite to the democratic system.
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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In which year was the unification of Italy completed?
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