List of top Political Science Questions asked in All India Law Entrance Test - PhD

Which of the following thinkers propounded the concept of 'constructive conflict?

Which one among the following provisions is borrowed by the Indian Constitution from the Constitution of the USA?
I. Fundamental Rights
II. Independence of Judiciary
III. Public Service Commission
IV. Ideals of Equality, Liberty and Fraternity
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Identify the correct chronological order in which the following States of India were created:
I. Nagaland 
II. Gujarat 
III. Haryana 
IV. Manipur 
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Which of the following countries is not a member of the G20?

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List-I	List-II
I. Semantic sting	a. Michael Foucault
II. Possessive individualism	b. Michael Walzer
III. Complex equality	c. C.B. Machpherson
IV. Bio politics	d. Dworkin

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Which of the following is not among the five stages of Maslow's 'Hierarchy of Needs'?

Which one of the following statements is not true for citizenship in India?

Which one of the following cases decriminalised homosexuality in India?

Consider the following statements about Rousseau's political philosophy:
I. Man is characterised by the two natural sentiments of self-love and pity 
II. Amour propre develops only in society 
III. Amour de soi and Amour propre is the same 
IV. Human beings are not capable of free will or free choice 
Which of the above are correct?

Which one of the following thinkers credited Jeremy Bentham with creating 'Panopticon' as a new technology of power?

Which of the following is not true with regard to John Rawls's theory of Justice?
I. Justice is the first virtue of a good society and the only sufficient condition of a good society. 
II. Primary goods include rights and liberties, powers and opportunities, income and wealth, means of self-respect etc. 
III. His theory is substantive theory of justice. IV. He supported utilitarianism in constructing his theory of justice. 
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Which of the following explains the philosophical method correctly?
I. It seeks to construct basic concepts in order to solve the riddles of the universe and of human society. 
II. In order to understand the things beyond our observation, it tries to build a system of thought based on logic. 
III. The knowledge obtained by the normative method is not duly recognised under the philosophical method. 
IV. A combination of empiricism and normativism gives rise to political philosophy. 
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List-I	List-II
I. Bertrand Russell	a. Power: A New Social Analysis
II. Robert Dahl	b. Modern Political Analysis
III. Robert M. MacIver	c. The Web of Government
IV. Vilfredo Pareto	d. The Mind and Society

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Which of the following is correct with regard to Hannah Arendt's conception of power?
I. Power is the property of an individual. 
II. It corresponds to human ability to act. 
III. It corresponds to human ability to not just act but to act in context. 
IV. Power does not belong to a group. 
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Which of the following statements are true with regard to 'Moral Individualism"?
I. A philosophical principle which regards individuals as an end in itself, endowed with dignity. 
II. No human beings can be a means to an end which lies beyond his conscious existence. 
III. No worldly thing can be treated as more valuable than a human being. 
IV. Free will is the basis of any obligation. 
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According to Alfred Cobban, which one of the following is responsible for the decline of Political theory?

Which one of the following statements is not true with regard to private property in the context of John Locke?

Niccolo Machiavelli frequently refers to which historical figure in "The Prince' to clucidate his political theories?

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List-I	List-II
I. Peter Laslett	a. Death of Political Theory
II. George Berkeley	b. Subjective Idealism
III. Michael Oakeshott	c. Political Education
IV. Leo Strauss	d. heological Political Predicament

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Which set of thinkers below belong to the Neo-Marxist school of thought?

Which among the following thinkers said, "Covenants without swords are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all"?

Which one of the following thinkers is credited with the idea of "eudaimonia"?

Which of the following is true for Plato's theory of forms?
I. The theory creates a dualism between the empirical world of sensation and non-empirical, non-sensory world of forms. 
II. Forms can be visualised because they are objects of sensation. 
III. The form of all forms is what Plato calls the good. 
IV. Form exists as transcendental realities. 
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Consider the following in the context of Aristotle's idea of happiness:
I. It is the result of reason alone. 
II. It is the result of reason plus action, not reason alone. 
III. The end or telos of humans as ethical beings is happiness. 
IV. Happiness is not a virtue. 
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List-I	List-II
I. Immanuel Kant II	a. Defensor Pacis
II. Plato	b. Critique of Pure Reason
III. Marsilius of Padua	c. De Re Republic
IV. Cicero	d. Meno

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