List of top Political Science Questions

Which among the following statements are CORRECT about policy evaluation process in India?
(A) The office of Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India is regarded as an arm of the Parliament.
(B) The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has broad authority to audit the operation and finance of the governmental activities.
(C) The CAG provides adequate funds for government activities.
(D) The CAG ensures the accountability of the executive to the parliament.
Which among the following statements are CORRECT about policy formulation process in India?
A. All policies must have the approval of the cabinet.
B. Legislators are concerned with central political tasks of policy formulation.
C. Administrative agencies are delegated with discretionary authority known as 'the rule making process.'
D. The Judiciary has no power to modify policies.
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Match the LIST-I with LIST-II
LIST-ILIST-II
A. Incremental ModelIII. Policy as continuation of previous policy with minimum change.
B. Rational ModelIV. Policy is one that is correctly designed to maximize the net value achievement.
C. Game TheoryI. Policy as rational choice in competitive situations.
D. Elite ModelII. Policy represents the preferences of specific interests of the society.
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The Energy Conservation Act in India was passed in which year?
The concept of 'bounded rationality' was given by:
Who is the author of the book 'Administrative Behaviour'?
In which year was the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women adopted?
Which country joined SAARC in 2007?
Which among the following thinkers argued that there is a wide gap between the global poor and rich?
The ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) was established in which year?
In Australia which system decides election to the House of Representatives?
Which approach of Comparative Politics focuses on the ‘interests of actors’?
Who among the following thinkers gave the concept of 'virtu'?
Who among the following political thinkers considered law as 'nothing else than the command of the sovereign in the exercise of his sovereign power'?
Who defined citizenship as ‘full membership of a community’?
Who developed the 'Gaia hypothesis'?
Which among the following statements are CORRECT for feminism?
(A) The ‘first wave’ of feminism was closely associated with the women’s suffrage movement, which emerged in the 1840s and 1850s.
(B) The ‘second wave’ of feminism arose during the 1960s and expressed, in addition to the established concern with equal rights, the more radical and sometimes revolutionary demands of the growing Women’s Liberation Movement.
(C) Feminist politics has fragmented and undergone a process of de-radicalisation since the early 1970s.
(D) Mary Wollstonecraft’s Women’s Estate is regarded as the first text of modern feminism.
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An international organisation which sets the rules for global trade?
Who gave the idea of a constituent assembly for framing the Indian Constitution in 1934?
Who among the following thinkers conceptualized positive and negative freedom?
Which among the following is NOT the major law of dialectical materialism?
The first elected President of Russia was:
Which of the following statement are CORRECT about Rousseau's concept of the General Will?
(A) Rousseau in his Discourse on Political Economy stated the concept of the General Will.
(B) General Will is driven towards the preservation and welfare of the whole and of every part.
(C) The General Will comes from all and applies to all.
(D) It embodies the free rational will of all.
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Who among the following political thinkers said "Man is born free and he is everywhere in chains"?
According to J.S. Mill, the rational ground for coercion of an individual is-