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Political Science [ Question No: 1 To 20 ] :
The concept of civic culture developed out of a survey of
Who was the last military dictator in Pakistan ?
Which one among the following was the first mass movement Mao led ?
The origin of contemporary resurgence of interest in good governance is credited to the publication of :
'Democratic Deficit' concerns with :
(a) Declining levels of citizens trust in political institutions
(b) Primacy of form over substance
(c) Shift from representative democracy to participatory democracy
(d) Not holding regular elections
The Rajya Sabha has exclusive jurisdiction in :
The first nuclear arms control measures that India accepted was the :
Where is the headquarters of SAARC ?
Which of the following pairs is incorrectly matched ?
Who among the following thinkers established the organisation 'Abhinav Bharat' ?
The statement 'Over himself, Over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign' is associated with :
Which one of the following ideologies is premised on the belief that established features of society have crumbled and its political doctrines have become irrelevant ?
Which one of the following essays is regarded as founding essays of Public Administration ?
Article 1 of the Indian Constitution describes India as the :
Which of the following is the main objective of the Threshold Test Ban Treaty ?
Which of the following is not a Dravidian Political Party ?
Choose the incorrect statement of the following :
The compendium of Mission Mode Projects under National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) is known as
If a Panchayat is dissolved, elections are to be held with in
Identify the immediate measures which ensure women's safety and enable them to take up jobs, support family income and in becoming self-reliant.
(a) Provision of child-care centres
(b) Reservation of seats for women in parliament
(c) Provision of occupational safety
(d) Pick and drop facility for night shifts
Choose the correct option :
Total number of questions : 20
Number of answered questions : 0
Number of unanswered questions : 20
Political Science [ Question No: 1 To 20 ] :
The concept of civic culture developed out of a survey of
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
The concept of civic culture came from a survey of the U.S.A., the U.K., Mexico, Germany and Italy. Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba carried out the five-nation study reported in The Civic Culture (1963) and used it to compare participant, subject and parochial orientations.
The first list, with India and Pakistan, is wrong because neither was in the study. The third list, with Australia, Pakistan and India, is wrong for the same reason. The fourth, with Australia, Canada and France, is wrong because none of those three was surveyed. Only the second list names the five countries studied.
Who was the last military dictator in Pakistan ?
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Correct Answer : D
The last military ruler of Pakistan was Pervez Musharraf.
Pakistan has had four military rulers: Ayub Khan (1958-69), Yahya Khan (1969-71), Zia-ul-Haq (1977-88) and Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a coup in October 1999 and ruled until he resigned the presidency in 2008.
Ayub Khan, Yahya Khan and Zia-ul-Haq all came before him, so none of them was the last.
Which one among the following was the first mass movement Mao led ?
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Correct Answer : C
The official key gives the Hundred Flowers campaign, summed up in the slogan let a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend. It was launched in 1956, before the Great Leap Forward of 1958 and the Cultural Revolution of 1966.
The Cultural Revolution is wrong because it came last, in 1966. The Great Leap Forward is wrong because it began in 1958, two years after the Hundred Flowers campaign. None of the above is wrong because the keyed movement is among the choices.
The origin of contemporary resurgence of interest in good governance is credited to the publication of :
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
The answer is the World Bank's Governance and Development, 1992.
The term 'good governance' entered development debates through the World Bank's 1989 report on sub-Saharan Africa, and the Bank's 1992 publication Governance and Development set out the idea systematically: public sector management, accountability, a legal framework for development, and transparency. This is the work usually credited with the contemporary resurgence of interest.
The other books are important but later or narrower. Rosenau and Czempiel's Governance without Government (1992) is about global governance in international relations, Putnam's Making Democracy Work (1993) is about social capital in Italy, and Diamond's Developing Democracy (1999) is about democratic consolidation.
'Democratic Deficit' concerns with :
(a) Declining levels of citizens trust in political institutions
(b) Primacy of form over substance
(c) Shift from representative democracy to participatory democracy
(d) Not holding regular elections
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
The answer is (a), (b) and (c).
'Democratic deficit' describes a gap between democratic forms and their substance: declining levels of citizens' trust in political institutions (a), and the primacy of form over substance (b), where institutions are democratic on paper but distant from citizens in practice. The debate on it is also bound up with calls to move from purely representative to more participatory democracy (c).
Not holding regular elections (d) is not what the term concerns: the deficit is felt in countries that hold elections regularly. Every option except the keyed one includes (d), which rules them out.
The Rajya Sabha has exclusive jurisdiction in :
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Correct Answer : D
The Rajya Sabha's exclusive power is Authorising the Parliament to legislate on a subject in the State List.
Under Article 249, the Rajya Sabha may, by a resolution supported by two-thirds of members present and voting, declare that it is in the national interest for Parliament to legislate on a State List matter. Only the Rajya Sabha, as the house representing the states, can do this; Article 312 gives it a similar power for creating new All India Services.
The other powers are not exclusive. Emergency proclamations must be approved by both houses, new states are created by an ordinary law passed by both houses, and the Vice-President is elected by members of both houses.
The first nuclear arms control measures that India accepted was the :
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Correct Answer : C
India's first accepted nuclear arms control measure was the PTBT of 1963.
The Partial Test Ban Treaty, banning nuclear tests in the atmosphere, in outer space and under water, was signed in 1963 and India signed it that year. It followed Nehru's call in 1954 for a halt to nuclear testing.
India refused to sign the NPT (opened for signature in 1968) and the CTBT (adopted in 1996) because it saw both as discriminatory. SALT-1 was a bilateral agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union, which India could not join.
Where is the headquarters of SAARC ?
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Correct Answer : B
The SAARC secretariat is in Kathmandu.
The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation was founded at Dhaka in December 1985, and its permanent secretariat was set up in Kathmandu, Nepal, in 1987.
The other capitals host different bodies or none. New Delhi hosts the South Asian University, set up under SAARC, but not the secretariat; Thimphu, printed 'Thimpu' here, and Colombo have hosted SAARC summits but are not its headquarters. Dhaka, where the association was founded, is not among the options.
Which of the following pairs is incorrectly matched ?
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Correct Answer : D
The incorrectly matched pair is V.D. Savarkar - Essays on Geeta.
Essays on the Gita was written by Sri Aurobindo, first published serially in his journal Arya from 1916. Savarkar's best-known works are Hindutva and The Indian War of Independence, 1857.
The other pairs are correct: Jayaprakash Narayan wrote Why Socialism? (1936), Ram Manohar Lohia wrote Marx, Gandhi and Socialism (1963), and Sri Aurobindo wrote The Mother (1928).
Who among the following thinkers established the organisation 'Abhinav Bharat' ?
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Correct Answer : B
Abhinav Bharat was established by V.D. Savarkar.
Savarkar and his brother Ganesh founded the Mitra Mela in Nashik in 1899, which became the secret revolutionary society Abhinav Bharat in 1904. Its members aimed to overthrow British rule by force, and the society was linked to the assassination of the Nashik collector Jackson in 1909.
Swami Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Mission, Aurobindo was associated with the Anushilan circle in Bengal before turning to spiritual life, and Tagore founded Santiniketan.
The statement 'Over himself, Over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign' is associated with :
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Correct Answer : C
The statement is from John Stuart Mill.
It closes the statement of the harm principle in the first chapter of On Liberty (1859): the only purpose for which power may rightly be exercised over anyone against his will is to prevent harm to others, and in what concerns only himself, 'over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign'.
Thomas Hobbes placed sovereignty in an absolute ruler, not in the individual. Michael Oakeshott (spelt 'Machel' in the paper) was a conservative philosopher, and Benjamin Disraeli a Conservative prime minister of Britain.
Which one of the following ideologies is premised on the belief that established features of society have crumbled and its political doctrines have become irrelevant ?
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Correct Answer : B
The ideology is Postmodernism.
Postmodern thinkers hold that the certainties of the modern age have broken down: industrial class societies, the nation-state and the grand theories that explained them. Jean-Francois Lyotard summed this up as incredulity towards metanarratives, which is why postmodernists treat the established political doctrines of modernity as irrelevant.
Modernism is the outlook postmodernism rejects. Marxism is itself one of the grand narratives of modernity. Foundationalism holds that knowledge rests on secure foundations, the very belief postmodernism, being anti-foundational, denies.
Which one of the following essays is regarded as founding essays of Public Administration ?
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Correct Answer : D
The founding essay is The Study of Administration.
Woodrow Wilson's essay 'The Study of Administration', published in the Political Science Quarterly in 1887, called for administration to be studied as a separate science, distinct from politics. It is regarded as the starting point of public administration as a discipline.
The other titles are later writings by other authors and are not treated as founding essays of the discipline.
Article 1 of the Indian Constitution describes India as the :
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Correct Answer : B
Article 1 describes India as a Union of States.
Article 1(1) says India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States. Dr. Ambedkar explained that the word Union was chosen to show that the federation was not the result of an agreement among the states and that no state has the right to secede.
'Territory of India' appears in Article 1(3), which lists what it includes. The Constitution does not call India a federation or a confederation, and a confederation would allow member states to leave.
Which of the following is the main objective of the Threshold Test Ban Treaty ?
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Correct Answer : D
The Threshold Test Ban Treaty bans underground nuclear tests having a yield of more than 150 kilotons.
Signed by the US and the USSR in 1974, the treaty set a 'threshold' of 150 kilotons for underground nuclear weapon tests. Tests in the atmosphere, space and under water had already been banned by the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963.
The 100-kiloton figure is wrong, and the treaty has nothing to do with transferring nuclear or space technology to non-nuclear states, which is the concern of the Non-Proliferation Treaty and export-control regimes.
Which of the following is not a Dravidian Political Party ?
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Correct Answer : C
The party that is not Dravidian is the Telangana Rashtra Samiti.
The Telangana Rashtra Samiti was founded in 2001 by K. Chandrashekar Rao to campaign for a separate Telangana state. It is a regional party of the Telugu-speaking region and does not belong to the Dravidian movement of Tamil Nadu.
The Dravidar Kazhagam (written Dravida Kazhagam in the paper) was founded by Periyar, and the Marumalarchi DMK and the All India Anna DMK both split from the DMK. All three descend from the Dravidian movement.
Choose the incorrect statement of the following :
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Correct Answer : D
The incorrect statement is that the Swiss Supreme Court may review federal laws.
Switzerland gives the Federal Assembly the last word on federal statutes: Article 190 of the Swiss Constitution requires the Federal Supreme Court to apply federal acts even if it thinks them unconstitutional. The Court can review cantonal laws, but not federal laws.
The other statements are correct: the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (1982) greatly expanded judicial review in Canada; Indian textbooks list Articles 131-136, with 13, 32 and 226, among the bases of the Supreme Court's review powers; and in the USA judicial review was first asserted in Marbury v. Madison (1803).
The compendium of Mission Mode Projects under National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) is known as
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Correct Answer : C
The compendium is called Saaransh.
Saaransh is the compendium of the Mission Mode Projects under the National e-Governance Plan, bringing together the status and details of the central, state and integrated projects in one place.
E-Pramaan is the government's authentication framework, DigiLocker is the cloud document wallet for citizens, and MeitY is the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology itself, not a compendium.
If a Panchayat is dissolved, elections are to be held with in
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
Elections must be held within 6 months.
Under Article 243E, inserted by the 73rd Amendment, an election to constitute a panchayat must be completed before its five-year term expires or, if it is dissolved early, before the expiry of six months from the date of dissolution. A panchayat so constituted serves only the remainder of the original term.
One and three months are shorter than anything the Constitution prescribes, and one year is longer than it allows. The same six-month rule applies to municipalities under Article 243U.
Identify the immediate measures which ensure women's safety and enable them to take up jobs, support family income and in becoming self-reliant.
(a) Provision of child-care centres
(b) Reservation of seats for women in parliament
(c) Provision of occupational safety
(d) Pick and drop facility for night shifts
Choose the correct option :
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
The immediate measures are (a), (c) and (d).
Child-care centres (crèches) at or near workplaces let mothers work (a); occupational safety measures protect women at the workplace (c); and pick-and-drop transport for night shifts makes late work safe (d). Each one directly and immediately helps women take up jobs safely and earn.
Reservation of seats for women in Parliament (b) is a long-term political measure for representation; it does not immediately ensure safety at work or enable women to take up jobs, so options including (b) are not the best answer.
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Total number of questions : 20
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