The basis for acquiring citizenship through naturalization is
(a) Birth
(b) Choice
(c) Coercion
(d) Descent
Answer: b
“Polity (in the modern sense of democracy) is more stable and gives less occasion for revolution.” This statement is attributed to
(a) Cicero
(b) Plato
(c) Polibius
(d) Aristotle
Answer: d
Today’s MCQs are all about Political Science (Introduction to Political Science), these MCQs are taken from different books and Past Papers which are helpful for all type competitive exams.
Which one of the following statements aptly describes the basis of the cabinet system of government?
(a) The cabinet works on the system of collective responsibility.
(b) The cabinet is responsible to the people
(c) The cabinet government is a majority government.
(d) The cabinet government is a party government.
Answer: c
Which one of the following would be called electorate in a country having universal adult franchise?
(a) The total population of; the citizens of a state.
(b) The total population of the citizens of a state excluding women and children.
(c) The total population of adult citizens of the state
(d) The total population of adult citizens of the state excluding lunatics and criminals.
Answer: d
Which concept of the state considers it to be an all-comprehensive, all-powerful and all-embracing institution?
(a) The ethical notion of state
(b) The legal notion of state
(c) The welfare notion of state
(d) State as an organic unit
Answer: a
Who is the chief exponent of the theory of property as the fruit of labour?
(a) Ricardo
(b) Spencer
(c) Locke
(d) Mill
Answer: c
Who was the pioneer of positive liberalism?
(a) Bentham
(b) T.H. Green
(c) Machiavelli
(d) J.S. Mill
Answer: d
When it is said that rights are not a solute, it means that they
(a) are available without any restrictions to some sections of society only
(b) are available only to some people in society
(c) are subject to only reasonable restrictions imposed in the interest of society
(d) are hedged in by lot of restrictions in the interest of various sections of society
Answer: c
Who said, “Greece had developed democracy without unity, Rome secured unity without democracy”?
(a) Hobbes
(b) Willoughby
(c) Cicero
(d) Gettell
Answer: d
‘The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle’. These words are found in
(a) Das Capital
(b) Holy Family
(c) Communist Manifesto
(d) Poverty of Philosophy
Answer: c
Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau
(a) advocated the social contract theory
(b) agreed about the conditions in the state of nature
(c) discredited the concept of natural rights.
(d) rejected the doctrine of state sovereignty
Answer: a
According to the pluralist theory of democracy
(a) political power is shared by the state and non-political associations and interest groups
(b) people participate in politics with the express aim of overcoming their alienation from the groups to which they belong
(c) the politics of consensus is not feasible
(d) the power of individuals should be organised into syndicates and guilds to counter state power
Answer: a
A group of persons organised for a common end which is realised by the cooperative efforts of its members is known as a/an
(a) party
(b) corporation
(c) caucus
(d) association
Answer: a
Who among the following formulated the notion of power/knowledge?
(a) Michel Foucault
(b) Roger Bacon
(c) Socrates
(d) Niccolo Machiavelli
Answer: a
Balance of power refers to
(a) An implicit understanding among several rulers of great powers that the perpetuation of the existing power distribution benefits them mutually
(b) A situation in which nuclear powers threaten mutual annihilation
(c) A just equilibrium in power among the members of the family of nations
(d) All of above
Answer: d
Who among the following theorists advocated participatory democracy?
(a) F.A. Hayek
(b) C.B. Macpherson
(c) Michael Oakeshot
(d) Gaetano Mosca
Answer: b
Who among the following has described democracy as “that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the People’s vote”?
(a) Robert Dahl
(b) Peter Bachrach
(c) C. Wright Mills
(d) Joseph Schumpeter
Answer: d
Who among the following has described the world wide triumph of liberal democracy as the end of history?
(a) Samir Amin
(b) David Held
(c) Francis Fukuyama
(d) Samuel P. Huntington
Answer: c
Most of the Third world states are
(a) Ethnically and culturally divided
(b) Linguistically homogeneous
(c) Rich in natural resources
(d) Economically self-reliant
Answer: a
In a parliamentary form of government, ministers are appointed by
(a) The head of the state at his discretion
(b) The head of the government
(c) The head of the state on the recommendations of the head of the government
(d) The legislature
Answer: c
An Authoritarian State is one which
(a) Guarantees conditions in which the individual can realize his true self
(b) Commands unquestioning obedience to the authority of the ruler
(c) Claims to regulate every sphere of the individual’s life and activity
(d) Is a natural organisation possessing a will of its own to promote the good life
Answer: b
The practice adopted by the party in power to reward its members and supporters through government contracts and jobs is called
(a) Division of powers
(b) Implied powers
(c) Power politics
(d) Spoils system
Answer: d
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1) Which one of the following theories held that the State is a product and manifestation of the irreconcilability of class antagonisms?
(a) Evolutionary Theory
(b) Anarchist Theory
(c) Marxist-Leninist Theory
(d) Guild-Socialist Theory
Answer: (c)
2) “The Development of Capitalism in Russia was written by: (CSS-2005)
(a) Lenin
(b) Friedrich Engels
(c) Mao-Tung
(d) None of these
Answer: (a)
Proposal for Joint Defense between Pakistan and India was made by:
(a) Nehru
(b) Chou-En-Lie
(c) Ayub Khan
(d) None of these
Answer: (c)
Explanation: In 1962, a territorial differences increased between India and People’s Republic of China, the Beijing was planning to stage an invasion in northern territories of India. Zhou Enlai, Chinese Premier and Mao Zedong invited Pakistan to join the raid and extricate the rest of Indian-held Kashmir from Indian control Bhutto advocated for the plan , but President Ayub Khan oppose to plan he was feared of retreat by Indian troops Instead Ayub Khan proposed a “joint defense union” with India, Bhutto was shocked by such statement and felt Ayub Khan was unlettered in international affairs
Pakistan is the sixth-largest nation in the world by way of
(a) Area
(b) Population
(c) Military Strength
(d) None of these
Answer: (b)
Who among the following argued that justice is the first virtue of social institutions?
(a) G.W.F. Hegel
(b) Karl Marx
(c) Charles Taylor
(d) John Rawls
Answer: (d)
Materialistic interpretation of history was propounded by: (CSS-2000)
(a) Trotsky
(b) Lenin
(c) Bolsheviks
(d) Mensheviks
(e) Karl Marx
Answer: (e)
Explanation: Marx’s theory, which he called “historical materialism” or the “materialist conception of history” is based on Hegel’s claim that history occurs through a dialectic, or clash, of opposing forces. Hegel was a philosophical idealist who believed that we live in a world of appearances, and true reality is an ideal. Marx accepted this notion of the dialectic, but rejected Hegel’s idealism because he did not accept that the material world hides from us the “real” world of the ideal; on the contrary, he thought that historically and socially specific ideologies prevented people from seeing the material conditions of their lives clearly.
Who among the following argued that universal suffrage does injustice to property owners?
(a) Henry Maine
(b) H.J. Laski
(c) J.S. Mill
(d) W. F. Willoughby
Answer: (c)
JS MILL wrote a famous book ‘On Liberty’ in the year: (CSS-2005/2009)
(a) 1759
(b) 1859
(c) 1895
(d) None of these
Answer: (b)
J.S. Mill recommended complete freedom of speech and censorship:
(a) in the case of a false view
(b) in the cases of a false view and a view that is partially true and partially false
(c) in the case of view that is both.-partially true and partially false
(d) in all cases irrespective of whether a view is partially or wholly true or false
Answer: (d)
According to Kant, any proposition that asserts the existence of something must be:
(a) Unprovable.
(b) A tautology.
(c) Analytic.
(d) synthetic.
(e) Self-contradictory.
Answer: (d)
Who gave a lasting contribution to scientific philosophy?
(a) Otto Neurath
(b) Kant
(c) Rudolf Carnap
(d) Hans Hann
Answer: (b)
Which one of the following statements about Rousseau is correct?
(a) He perfected the theory of Social Contract
(b) He repudiated the theory of Contract altogether
(c) He transformed the theory of Contract into an idealist mode of political discourse
(d) He added nothing to the theories of Hobbes and Locke beyond combining their views
Answer: (c)
Rousseau was born on 28 June 1712 at: (CSS-2009)
(a) New York
(b) Washington D.C.
(c) Geneva
(d) None of these
Answer: (c)
Who among the following used the expression “forced to be free” in connection with the notion of liberty of the individual?’
(a) Rousseau
(b) Locke
(c) Green
(d) Hobhouse
Answer: (a)
According to John Locke the worst form of Government is: (CSS-2005)
(a) Monarchy
(b) Aristocracy
(c) Democracy
(d) None of these
Answer: (c)
Which one of the following political thinkers was the first exponent of the liberal theory of States?
(a) John Locke
(b) T.H. Green
(c) Jean Jacques Rousseau
(d) Hobbes
Answer: (a)
Which one of the following political thinkers was the first exponent of the liberal theory of States?
(a) John Locke
(b) T.H. Green
(c) Jean Jacques Rousseau
(d) Hobbes
Answer: (a)