Organisation : Central Board Of Secondary Education
Exam : National Eligibility Test (NET)
Document Type : Model/Previous Question Paper
Subject : Political Science
Date/Year : 10.07.2016 & 28.08.2016
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Time : 2 1/2 hours
Maximum Marks : 150
Note :
** This paper contains seventy five (75) objective type questions of two (2) marks each.
** All questions are compulsory.
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1. Who among the following said that political theory stands for an abstract model of the political order ?
(1) T.P. Jenkin
(2) R.A. Dahl
(3) W.T. Bluhm
(4) Weinstein
2. Which one of the following statements is not true ?
(1) Classical political theory is qualitative.
(2) Behavioural political theory is quantitative.
(3) Post-behavioural political theory is both qualitative and quantitative.
(4) Behavioural theory is not specially concerned with Anglo-American model.
3. Which one of the following statements is not true ?
(1) Neo-liberalism refers to significant revival of interest in classical liberalism.
(2) Neo-liberal ideas were taken up by the political parties of the New Right in Britain.
(3) The revival of classical liberalism occurred as a reaction against the onset of a world recession in the 1970s.
(4) T.H. Green accepted the classical liberal notion of liberty only.
4. Who among the following dismissed John Rawl’s concept of social justice as a ‘mirage’ ?
(1) Macpherson
(2) Friedrich Hayek
(3) Isaiah Berlin
(4) Robert Nozick
5. Who among the following said that ideology should neither be thought of as liberating or oppressive, nor as true or false. It can be any these things ?
(1) Andrew Heywood
(2) John Rawls
(3) Andrew Gamble
(4) Bill Coxall
6. Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :
List – I (Year) List – II (Event)
(a) 1917 (i) Mao started his historic ‘Long March’.
(b) 1918 (ii) Mao participated in the first Congress of the CCP.
(c) 1921 (iii) Mao became a Library Assistant in Peking University
(d) 1934 (iv) Mao met Liu Shao-Chi
Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
(2) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(3) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(4) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
7. Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :
List – I (Philosopher) List – II (Idea)
(a) Machiavelli (i) Revolt against Reason
(b) Hobbes (ii) Moral Indifference
(c) Locke (iii) Instinct of self-preservation
(d) Rousseau (iv) Natural Right to Property
Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(2) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(3) (iii) (i) (iv) (ii)
(4) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
8. Who among the following said : “Most religious men I have met are politicians in disguise. I, however, who wear the guise of a politician in disguise, am at heart a religious man” ?
(1) Bipin Chandra Pal
(2) C.R. Das
(3) M.K. Gandhi
(4) M.A. Jinnah
9. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as
Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes given below :
Assertion (A) : Platonic theory of ideas is based upon the theory of knowledge.
Reason (R) : For him, knowledge is perception.
Codes :
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
10. Who among the following said : “Aristotle’s new general science of politics was not only empirical and descriptive, but even in some respects independent of any ethical purpose, since a statesman might need to be expert in governing even a bad state.” ?
(1) E. Barker
(2) G.H. Sabine
(3) E.B. England
(4) G.C. Field
11. For Locke, which of the following statements is not true ?
(a) The state must be a constitutional state.
(b) Government must posses discretionary power.
(c) It is a tolerant state.
(d) The right to property is not a natural right.
Select the correct answer from the codes given below :
(1) (a) and (c)
(2) (a) and (b)
(3) (b) only
(4) (d) only
12. For Rousseau, which of the following statements is not true ?
(a) Two original instincts i.e. self-love and sympathy make up man’s nature.
(b) A thinking man is a depraved animal.
(c) Family is the only natural society.
(d) General will is not a group mind.
Select the correct answer from the codes given below :
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (c) only
(4) (d) only
13. For J.S. Mill, which of the following statements is not true ?
(a) Pleasures differ in quality as well as in quantity.
(b) Mill makes use of the non-utilitarian arguements.
(c) The felicific calculus is absurd.
(d) Pleasures can be objectively measured.
Select the correct answer from the codes given below :
(1) (b) and (c)
(2) (a) and (b)
(3) (a), (b) and
(c) (4) (d) only
14. Arrange the following works of Amartya Sen in chronological order of his publications. Select the correct answer from the codes given below
(a) Idea of Justice (b) Inequality Re-examined
(c) Development as Freedom (d) Choice, Welfare and Measurement
Codes :
(1) (d), (b), (c), (a) (2) (a), (b), (c), (d)
(3) (c), (d), (a), (b) (4) (b), (a), (d), (c)
15. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as
Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes given below :
Assertion (A) : There was great deal of similarity between the ideas of Mazzini and those of Aurobindo.
Reason (R) : Both believed that faith in God was the basis of morality, that politics could not be separated from morality.
Codes :
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
16. Identify the correct sequence in which general systems theory has been adopted in social sciences ?
i. Psychology ii. Sociology
iii. Anthropology iv. Political Science
Select the correct answer from the codes given below :
Codes :
(1) i, ii, iii and iv (2) iii, ii, i and iv
(3) ii, iii, iv and i (4) iii, i, ii, and iv
17. The term ‘legitimation crisis’, in terms of erosion of confidence in public institutions resulting in coercive apparatus of states, was developed by :
(1) David Apter
(2) S.P. Huntington
(3) Edward Shills
(4) Habermas
18. Which of the following is not true of a Constitution ?
(1) It safequards the political institutions.
(2) It is the source of all authority of the organs of the government.
(3) It promotes trans-national security.
(4) It incorporates fundamental laws.
19. Who among the following are European thinkers associated with the theory of political elites ?
(a) Pareto
(b) Mosca
(c) Schumpeter
(d) Lasswell
Select the correct answer from the codes given below :
(1) (a) and (b) (2) (a), (b) and (c)
(3) (a), (b) and (d) (4) (a), (b), (c) and (d)
20. Who among the following do not make any distinction between interest groups and pressure groups ?
(a) Jean Blondel
(b) Myron Weiner
(c) Robert C. Bone
(d) James Coleman
Select the correct answer from the codes given below :
(1) (a) and (b) (2) (b) and (c)
(3) (a) and (d) (4) (d) only