List of top Political Science Questions

Which provision in the Indian Constitution provides for procedural safeguards against arbitrary arrest and detention?
Which provision of the Indian Constitution ensures free and fair elections of the Panchayat?
Which amendment to the Indian Constitution sought to implement economic justice and equality of opportunity assured by the Preamble vide Article 38 (B)?
In which year did the Supreme Court decide that the citizens of India have the Right to Negative Vote by exercising NOTA?
Arrange the following amendments to the Constitution in a chronological order.
A. Incorporation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli as Union Territory
B. Abolition of Election Tribunals
C. Abolition of Privy Purse
D. Reducing the age for voting rights from 21 to 18 years
Arrange the following events related to India-Pakistan relations in a chronological order.
A. Operation Gibraltar
B. Kargil War
C. Karachi Agreement
D. Indus Water Treaty
Sri Vijayapuram is the capital of which union territory of India?
Which of the following Court decisions declared the 'Right to Privacy' to be a fundamental right?
Which of the following statements are CORRECT about the Original Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of India?
A. The Original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court is dealt with in Article 132 of the Constitution.
B. Under Article 131 of the Constitution, the functions of the Supreme Court are purely federal in character.
C. It is confined to disputes between different units of the federation.
D. The Original Jurisdiction concerns to any dispute between the Government of India and one or more State.
Chronologically arrange the amendments to the Indian Constitution.
A. Added Schedule IX
B. First Schedule was amended to transfer certain territories implementing the Indo-Pakistan agreements.
C. Mizoram was made a State
D. Amended the Preamble
Who among the following adopted an 'open door' policy?
Chronologically arrange the following initiatives in monitoring the international environment.
A. United Nations Conference on Human Environment in Stockholm
B. Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer
C. Kyoto Protocol to the UNFCCC
D. Brundtland Commission Report
Who among the following thinkers said, "The nation..... is an imagined political community- imagined; both as, inherently limited and sovereign...."?
Who among the following thinkers highlighted the myths about men being 'just warriors' and women being 'beautiful souls' to be saved?
Which of the following has Veto power in the Security Council?
Where was the SAARC established?
The salient features of hybrid regimes are:
A. They suffer weaknesses in political culture and in the functioning of government.
B. The government pressure on opposition party and candidates are common.
C. Civil society and rule of law are weak.
D. Once elected, the government shows full sense of constitutional restraints.
An attempt to integrate historical and political science research methods in seeking to explain a specific outcome is called-
The headquarters of UNESCO is located in
How many days of work is guaranteed to rural households under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)?
The eighth schedule of the Indian constitution is related to
Match the LIST-I with LIST-II.
LIST-I
(Forms of Political Participation)		LIST-II
(Participants)
A. Conventional participationIII. Voting in elections
B. Less conventional participationI. Signing petitions
C. Illegal participationII. Political violence, including terrorism and assassination
D. Public opinion as a form of participationIV. Public concerns by the members of an affected community
Match the LIST-I with LIST-II.
LIST-I(Theory/Model/Approach)LIST-II(Author/Thinker)
A.Group TheoryIII.Earl Latham
B.Rational ModelIV.Herbert Simon, Yehezkel Dror and Thomas R. Dye
C.Incremental ModelII.Charles E. Lindblom
D.System ApproachI.David Easton
Chronologically arrange the following events related to SAARC.
(A) SAARC Energy Centre was created through Dhaka Declaration.
(B) Interim unit of SAARC Disaster Management Unit has been set up in Gandhinagar.
(C) Ambassador Mr. Md. Golam Sarwar of Bangladesh assumed office of Secretary General of SAARC.
(D) The first meeting of SAARC Inter-Governmental Expert Group on Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development Goals was held in Colombo.
Who among the following political thinkers considered democracy to be "the tyranny of the majority"?