Which of the following features of Marx's dialectical materialism are correct?
A. Only 1 and 4
B. Only 2 and 4
C. Only 1, 2 and 3
D. 1, 2, 3 and 4
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Who among the following conceived society as a 'Cooperative venture for mutual advantage', more of less self-sufficient, and necessarily governed by rules?
A. Robert Nozick
B. Friedrich Hayek
C. John Rawls
D. Karl Marx
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Who among the following considers Marxism to be an ideology rather than a political theory?
A. Germino
B. David Held
C. R. A. Dahl
D. G. H. Sabine
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Which one of the following statements is false?
A. The term 'Liberal' has referred to a class of free man who are neither serfs nor slaves
B. The term 'liberalism' was first employed in Spain in 1812
C. Classical 'liberalism' and modern liberalism have differences
D. The moral minuses of the anti marketeers are the moral minuses of the prornarketeers
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Which of the following is not an essential prerequisite for making elitism compatible with democracy in Schumpeter?
A. The calibre of politicians must be high
B. Competition is to take place within a relatively restricted range
C. Presence of a well trained independent bureaucracy
D. A well organised party system
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Who of the following advocated economic theory of democracy?
A. J. Lively
B. C. B. Macpherson
C. Anthony Downs
D. D. Held
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Which among the following statements is not correct?
A. Post-behavioural political theory interrelates value and fact
B. Post-behavioural political theory is ethnocentric
C. Post-behavioural political theory is tied to action and relevancy
D. Post-behavioural political theory is change oriented
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"Man must eat before he thinks. To eat he must produce. Production is a basic activity." Who said this?
A. Mao
B. Rose Luxumburg
C. Louis Althusser
D. Karl Marx
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Nee-liberalism does not believe in
A. Deregulation
B. Debureaucratisation
C. Disinvestment
D. Statisation
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Match
List-I with
List-II and select the correct answer:
List-I (Concepts) List-II (Thinkers)
a. Veil of ignorance
1. Karl Popper
b. Alienation
2. Robert Nozic
c. Piecemeal social engineering
3. John Rawls
d. Night watchman state
4. Karl Marx
A. a-1, b-4, c-3, d-2
B. a-2, b-1, c-3, d-4
C. a-3, b-4, c-1, d-2
D. a-4, b-3, c-2, d-1
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Who of the following said that, "the emancipation of the working class is the work of the working class itself"?
A. Mao Tse Tung
B. V. I. Lenin
C. Engels
D. Karl Marx
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Which of the following statements is not true?
A. Traditional political theory is quantitative
B. Behavioural political theory is quantitative
C. Post-behavioural political theory is both qualitative and quantitative
D. Post-behavioural political theory is ethnocentric; focuses especially on Western democracies
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Marx's theory of the state and revolutions are taken from
A. German classical philosophy
B. British political-economy
C. French revolutionary tradition
D. American war of independence
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Who among the following emphasized the sociological evolution of the state and political institutions?
A. Henry
B. Morgan
C. Laski
D. Both A and B
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Direct democracy is not possible in the modern times because
A. People are indifferent towards the affairs of state
B. Political parties are opposed to it
C. Propertied classes opposes it
D. Of the practical difficulties posed by the size and population of modern state
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Who among the following emphasised on 'procedural theory of democracy' highlighting three criteria?
A. S. M. Lipset
B. R. A. Dahl
C. Joseph Schumpeter
D. Sheldon Wolin
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Multiculturalism aims at:
A. Accommodating diverse identity groups into a homogeneous society
B. State has been conflated with nation in their conceptualization
C. Autonomy and self-governing rights
D. Equality before the law
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Match the items of
List I with items of
List-II and select the correct answer:
List-I (Thinkers) List-II (Theories)
a. Mao Tse Tung
1. Proletarian Dictatorship
b. Lenin
2. Cultural Revolution
c. Marx
3. One Country Socialism
d. Stalin
4. Communist Party as the Vanguard of the Proletariat
A. a-2, b-4, c-1, d-3
B. a-3, b-1, c-4, d-2
C. a-4, b-2, c-1, d-3
D. a-2, b-4, c-3, d-1
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Which one of the following answers is incorrect regarding neo-liberalism?
A. Neo-liberal vision largely evolved during the governments of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher
B. It attacked the Keynesian notin of the international economic order
C. It emerged as a total negation of Laissez-faire economics
D. Its emphasis is on free markets and liberal reforms
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Maine authored the book
A. The History of Institutions
B. Democracy and Liberty
C. Social Contract
D. Political Science and Government
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