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For Karl Marx, who among the following is not a Utopian socialist?

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Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and other labelled as Reason (R). Select the correct answer:
Assertion (A) Lenin produced a new theory of the revolutionary function of the intellectuals.
Reason (R) The ideas and not the material conditions of production are the effective causes of revolution.

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Who distinguished the Young Marx from the Old Marx?

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Dialectical materialism of Karl Marx postulates that
1. Matter is in a state of motion.
2. Motion in the matter is due to the pressure of environment.
3. Law of transformation is both quantitative and qualitative.
4. Conflict in matter is continuous and endless.
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Charles Merriam, Lasswell and Morgenthau have preferred to make politics free from all . . . . . . . . considerations

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Match the following in the term of Thinker and Concept:
List-I List-II
a. M. Foucault 1. Will to Power
b. Steven Lukes 2. Bio Power
c. Stewart Clegg 3. Radical View of Power
d. F. Nietzche 4. Circuits of Power

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Who among the following said that "Political theory is, quite simply, man's attempt to consciously understand and solve the problems of his group life and organisation"?

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The classical tradition in political theory is considered to be a common school of enquiry because

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Which of the following are Lenin's contribution of Marxist theory?
1. His theory of the party as 'the vanguard of the proletariat which guides the masses both before and after the revolution.'
2. His theory or capitalist imperialism, which he held to constitute the intermediary stage of capitalism.
3. His version for the reconstruction of the world's first proletarian state.
4. His theory of the strategy and tactics of revolution.
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Given below are the two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the-other labelled as Reason(R). Select the correct answer:
Assertion (A) Behavioural Political Theory sought to eliminate the role of values and make political science a pure science and quantitative.
Reason (R) Political Science, being a social science, can never be value-free as it deals with human beings who are value-bound.

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Which one of the following social contract traditions has not been revitalised by John Rawls in his book 'A Theory of Justice'?

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Communitarian theory lays emphasis on:

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Who among the following said, 'We can not shed our values in the way we remove our coats'?

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Who among the following has written the article "The Zigzag of Politics"?

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"Original position" is under a "Veil of ignorance" is a concept developed by whom among the following?

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For whom, "ideas" and not the "material conditions of production" are the effective causes of revolution?

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Match List-I (Works) with List-II (Authors) and select the correct answer:
List-I (Works) List-II (Authors)
a. The social and Political thought of Karl Marx 1. Robert Dahl
b. An Introduction to comparative Government 2. Milton Friedman
c. Who Governs? 3. Shlomo Avineri
d. Capitalism and Freedom 4. Jean Blondel

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Who among the following said that ideology should neither be thought of as liberating or oppressive, nor as true or false.
It can be any these things?

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Who among the following said that Political theory contains factor of three kinds-tile factual, the causal and the valuational?

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Leacock says that without at least an unconscious political science, . . . . . . . . will lose its main significance.

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