Comparative Political Analysis Questions and Answers

Q: Which one is not the attribute of one party system ?

The set that is not an attribute of a one-party system is the 'comprehensive, clientele oriented, pragmatic support' set.In the classification of party systems, the one-party type has sectarian (exclusive) support, closed and authoritarian organisation with repressive methods, and a diffuse national-integrating, community-building and mobilising character. The comprehensive, clientele-oriented and pragmatic profile belongs to a different type of party, so it is the odd item out.

111.

Who among the following has adopted the 'Political-conflict approach' in the analysis of revolution ?

A.Thdeda Skocpol
B.Alexis de Tocqueville
C.Charles Tilly
D.Emile Durkheim

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UGC NET - 2013,

Answer: C

The political-conflict approach to revolution is identified with Charles Tilly.

Tilly's polity-model treats revolution as an outcome of contention between groups competing for power, with mobilisation and the state's response at the centre. Theda Skocpol's approach is structural and comparative, centred on state breakdown and peasant revolts, Tocqueville is a classic observer of revolution and its causes, and Durkheim is a sociologist of social solidarity and not of revolution.

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112.

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the given codes below :

List - I (Books)	List - II (Authors)
a. The Politics of Modernization	i. Amartya Sen
b. Development as Freedoms	ii. Samuel P. Huntington
c. Political order in Changing Societies	iii. Celso Furtado
d. Development and Underdevelopment	iv. David E. Apter

Codes : a b c d

A.i ii iii iv
B.iv i ii iii
C.ii iii iv i
D.iv i iii ii

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Answer: B

The correct matching is a-iv, b-i, c-ii, d-iii, the second code.

The Politics of Modernization is by David Apter, Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen, Political Order in Changing Societies by Samuel Huntington, and Development and Underdevelopment by Celso Furtado. The other codes pair at least two books with the wrong author, for example Huntington with the Politics of Modernization.

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113.

Which of the following thinkers defined modernization in terms of three conditions :

(i) An innovative social system
(ii) Differentiated, flexible social structure
(iii) Social basis for skill and knowledge, in technologically advanced world.

A.C.E. Black
B.David E. Apter
C.Samuel P. Huntington
D.S.N. Eisenstadt

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UGC NET - 2013,

Answer: B

The thinker who defined modernisation by those three conditions is David E. Apter, the keyed answer.

Apter, in his work on modernisation, speaks of an innovative social system, a differentiated and flexible social structure, and a social framework giving skill and knowledge in a technologically advanced world. C.E. Black discusses modernisation as a historical process in stages, Huntington is known for political order and decay, and Eisenstadt for differentiation and institutionalisation in modernising societies.

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114.

Which one is not the attribute of one party system ?

A.Sectarian (Exclusive, regional, class, ideological) support.
B.Closed, Authoritarian, Direct action, Repressive organization.
C.Diffused, National integration, Community building, Mobilisation.
D.Comprehensive, Clientele oriented, Pragmatic support.

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Answer: D

The set that is not an attribute of a one-party system is the 'comprehensive, clientele oriented, pragmatic support' set.

In the classification of party systems, the one-party type has sectarian (exclusive) support, closed and authoritarian organisation with repressive methods, and a diffuse national-integrating, community-building and mobilising character. The comprehensive, clientele-oriented and pragmatic profile belongs to a different type of party, so it is the odd item out.

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115.

Which of the following, according to Lucian Pye, are the crises of Political development ?

1. Crisis of Identity
2. Crisis of Legitimacy
3. Crisis of Leadership
4. Crisis of Integrity
Select the correct answer from the codes given below :
Codes :

A.1, 2
B.2, 3
C.3, 4
D.1, 4

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UGC NET - 2013,

Answer: A

According to Lucian Pye the crises of political development named here are identity and legitimacy, statements 1 and 2.

Pye lists six crises: identity, legitimacy, penetration, participation, integration and distribution. Of the four statements, identity and legitimacy are on that list, while 'leadership' and 'integrity' are not (integration is on it, integrity is not). So only 1 and 2 are correct.

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116.

Match List-I with List-II. Select correct answer from the codes given below :

List - I (Elites)	List - II (Functions)
a. Current Political Elites	i. Goal attainment
b. Economic Military, Scientific, Diplomatic Elites	ii. Adaptation
c. Priest, Philosophers, Educators	iii. Integration
d. Artists, Writers, top Actors	iv. Pattern Maintenance

Codes : a b c d

A.i ii iii iv
B.iv iii ii i
C.iii ii i iv
D.ii i iv iii

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UGC NET - 2013,

Answer: A

The keyed matching is a-i, b-ii, c-iii, d-iv, the first code.

In the functional scheme, the current political elites serve goal attainment, economic, military, scientific and diplomatic elites serve adaptation, priests, philosophers and educators serve integration, and artists, writers and actors serve pattern maintenance. The other codes assign at least one elite to a function that does not match it.

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117.

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :

List - I (Approach)	List - II (Characteristics)
a. Behavioural	1. Agrarian-Transition Industrialization
b. Bureaucratic	2. Administrative system as a sub-system of the society
c. Ecological	3. Analyses of human behaviour in administrative settings
d. General Systems	4. Legal-Rational Authority

Codes : a b c d

A.2 3 4 1
B.3 4 1 2
C.1 2 3 4
D.4 1 2 3

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Answer: B

The correct matching is a-3, b-4, c-1, d-2, the second code.

The behavioural approach analyses human behaviour in administrative settings, the bureaucratic approach rests on legal-rational authority (Weber), the ecological approach (Riggs) relates administration to the agrarian-transitional-industrial stages of society, and the general systems approach treats the administrative system as a sub-system of society. The other codes mismatch these.

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118.

Who argued that "the first step in conceptualising the Welfare State involves locating the primary source of tension that gave rise to its particular political economy …."?

A.Golden and Katz
B.Esping - Anderson
C.Blunch and Verner
D.A. Wood

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Answer: B

The quotation is from Esping-Andersen, whose work on the 'three worlds of welfare capitalism' analyses the welfare state as a political economy shaped by the tension between market and state.

Golden and Katz, Blunch and Verner, and A. Wood are not associated with this formulation of the welfare state's primary source of tension, so they are rejected. Gosta Esping-Andersen's classification of liberal, conservative and social democratic welfare regimes is the best known work on the subject, and that is the reason the quotation is attributed to him.

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119.

Notion of uneven development was a response to the 19th century ideas of

A.Capitalism
B.Evolution and gradualism
C.Positivism
D.Anarchism

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UGC NET - 2013,

Answer: A

The key takes the notion of uneven development to be a response to nineteenth century ideas of capitalism, so option A is the answer. Marxist writers, such as Lenin and later the dependency and world-system theorists, used uneven development to describe how capitalism spreads unequally between regions and countries, and produces advanced and backward areas side by side. Positivism and anarchism are not the ideas that notion responded to in the key. The statement is a matter of the setter's reading of the history of the idea.

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120.

Match List - I with List - II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :

List - I (Dependency Theorists)	List - II (Books)
a. Samir Amin	i. Dependency and Development
b. A.G. Frank	ii. Accumulation on a world scale
c. F. Henrique cardoso	iii. Capitalism and under development in Latin America
d. Paul Swezey	iv. Monopoly Capital

Codes : a b c d

A.iv i iii ii
B.iii iv ii i
C.i ii iv iii
D.ii iii i iv

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Answer: D

The correct matching is a-ii, b-iii, c-i, d-iv, which is option D. Samir Amin wrote Accumulation on a World Scale, A.G. Frank wrote Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America, F.H. Cardoso (with Faletto) wrote Dependency and Development in Latin America, and Paul Sweezy (with Baran) wrote Monopoly Capital. The other options give the books to other authors.

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