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POLITICAL SCIENCE MCQs Set-I

• Anschluss is a Chancellor Adolf Hitler’s doctrine of German political union with Austria, which effectively enabled Germany to annex that nation in March 1938.
• Perestroika means restructuring
• The Rio Treaty was an agreement binding the republics of the Western Hemisphere together in a mutual defense system. Also called the Rio Pact or the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, the treaty became effective on December 3, 1948, when two-thirds of the member states had ratified it.
• Which theory contributed to the rise of totalitarian state in the present century? Ethical Theory
• Who said: “good citizens make a good state and bad citizens make a bad state”? Aristotle
• The fall of the Feudal States and rise of Nation States took place in? The sixteenth century
• What is the name of the book written by Miss Follett? The New State
• In the past state used to perform? Police functions
• “State promotes exploitation of poor by the rich” who said this? Karl Marx
• Most important responsibility of a welfare state is? To check exploitation
• In ancient India most important function of the state was? To promote dharma
• In a secular state the religion? Has nothing to do with politics
• According to monistic theory about the functions of the state? Individual and state must exist for each other
• Who wrote a book that identified capitalism and democracy? Carnegie
• Who said ‘democracy is what the crowd wants’? Holmes
• Aristotle regarded the best form of government as a mixed polity
• According to Locke the sovereign was a party to the contract
• Term perestroika used by Mikhail Gorbachev to describe his plans to reform, modernize and partly decentralize the Soviet economy
• Glasnost means openness
• The flexible response plan was developed by Defense and State Department officials in the Kennedy administration who felt that Eisenhower’s “massive retaliation” doctrine restricted the president’s options too much.