NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, etc.), GATE, CUET, Olympiads etc.: Political Science MCQs (Practice_Test 20 of 150)
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- Who among the following explained the views of T H Green on State as Human consciousness postulates liberty, liberty involved rights and rights demand the State?
- H J Laski
- R M Maciver
- E. Barker
- S. M. Lipset
- Consider the following with respect to globalizing the world:
- Satellite technology
- New modes of information and communication
- Rise of new financial institutions
- Development of a global civil society
- Which of these threaten state sovereignty?
- 1 and 2
- 2 and 4
- 1,3 and 4
- 1,2, 3 and 4
- From which one of the following perspectives, has the notion of human rights been criticized?
- Universalism
- Cultural identity
- Secularism
- Individualism
- Who among the following, beside the three leading contractualists, favored the theory of natural rights and who denied it, respectively?
- J S Mill and J Bentham
- T Paine and J Bentharn
- T Paine and J S Mill
- T H Green and J S Mill
- The kind of equality that the rule of law enshrines, is
- Substantive
- Procedural
- Distributive
- Patterned
- The Rawisian notion of justice is
- Socialist
- Utilitarian
- Communitarian
- Liberal
- Which one of the following has a close affinity to the rule of law?
- Martial Law
- Judicial supremacy
- Constitutionalism
- Separation of powers
- Hegel viewed civil society as an embodiment of
- Particularity
- Unity
- Universality
- Community
- Who among the following first put forward the concept of Swaraj?
- K C, Bhattacharya
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- M K Gandhi
- B C Tilak
- “Polity (in the modern sense of democracy) is more stable and gives less occasion for revolution.” This statement is attributed to
- Cicero
- Plato
- Polibius
- Aristotle
- The understanding of democracy as a mode of distributing power widely, thereby preventing its concentration in few hands is termed as
- Pluralist
- Federalist
- Participatory
- Representative
- Who among the following favored educational qualification as the basis for right to vote?
- J Bentham
- J S Mill
- T H Green
- E Barker
- In the Lok Sabha elections, who among the following can order recount of the votes polled, if a candidate so demands?
- Chief Election Commissioner
- Election Commission of India
- Chief Electoral Officer of the State
- Returning Officer of the constituency
- Participatory democracy calls for
- Greater involvement of the legislatures in the business of legislature
- Active engagement of the representatives in the affairs of their constituencies
- Greater and active engagement of citizens in governance
- Increasing the voter turnout in elections
- Which one of the following is NOT a mechanism to ensure political accountability?
- Periodic elections
- Informed public opinion
- Free press
- Pressure groups