UGC NET Paper 2 Political Science Full Test - 2 - UGC NET MCQ

Both Assertion- In the first three general elections, India produced a 'one party dominance' model, which is different from one party system and Reason- Till 1967, the Congress party had exclusive control over governmental power both at the Centre and also in most of the states of India are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

The International Criminal Court (ICC or ICCt) is an intergovernmental organization and international tribunal that sits in The Hague, Netherlands. The ICC has jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for the international crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and crimes of aggression. The ICC began functioning on 1 July 2002, the date that the Rome Statute entered into force.

David Easton said : "Research untutored by theory may prove trivial and theory unsupported by data, futile". 

Works of Isaiah Berlin in chronological order of his publications is - 
Karl Marx : His Life and Environment
Four Essays on Liberty
Vico and Herder : Two Studies in the History of Ideas
Concepts and Categories : Philosophical Essays

Mill's major contribution to utilitarianism is his argument for the qualitative separation of pleasures. Bentham treats all forms of happiness as equal, whereas Mill argues that intellectual and moral pleasures (higher pleasures) are superior to more physical forms of pleasure (lower pleasures)

Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

Friedrich August von Hayek, often referred to by his initials F. A. Hayek, was an Anglo-Austrian economist and philosopher best known for his defence of classical liberalism. Hayek shared the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Gunnar Myrdal for his "pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena".

Stephen Walt argued that 'realism is likely to remain the single most useful instrument in our intellectual toolbox'. 

Both Assertion- For Fukuyama, liberal democracy may constitute the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and Reason- The earlier forms of government were characterised by grave defects and irrationalities that led to their eventual collapse are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

R.R. Rostow and Max Waber contended that political development is administrative and legal development.

The Public Accounts Committee consists of not more than twenty-two members, fifteen elected by Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament, and not more than seven members of Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament.

Both Assertion- In the advanced liberal democracies of the western nations, military is subordinate to the civilian authority and Reason- Military plays a key role in countries where democracy has not been institutionalized are correct but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

A presidential system is a democratic and republican system of government where a head of government leads an executive branch that is separate from the legislative branch. This head of government is in most cases also the head of state, which is called president.

The correct sequence of the input functions is - 
Political socialization and recruitment
Interest articulation
Interest aggregation
Political communication

Long absence from duty is not included as a cause for disciplinary action against public servants by L.D. White.

Political socialization also encompasses the way in which people acquire values and opinions that shape their political stance and ideology: it is a "study of the developmental processes by which people of all ages and adolescents acquire political cognition, attitudes, and behaviors."

Duncan Black, Anthony Dowas, James Buchanan and Kenneth Arrow are advocates of Public Choice Theory in public administration.
public choice theory, is "the use of economic tools to deal with traditional problems of political science".[1] Its content includes the study of political behavior. In political science, it is the subset of positive political theory that studies self-interested agents (voters, politicians, bureaucrats) and their interactions, which can be represented in a number of ways – using (for example) standard constrained utility maximization, game theory, or decision theory.

A writ of habeas corpus (which literally means to "produce the body") is a court order demanding that a public official (such as a warden) deliver an imprisoned individual to the court and show a valid reason for that person's detention.

Aitchison Commission - 1886 
Gladstone Committee - 1894
Brownlow Committee - 1937 
Masterman Committee - 1950

The correct sequence in which general systems theory has been adopted in social sciences is - 
Anthropology
Sociology
Psychology
Political science

- (a) Two original instincts i.e. self-love and sympathy make up man's nature.
Rousseau believed humans have natural instincts of self-love (amour de soi) and sympathy (pity).
- (b) A thinking man is a depraved animal.
Rousseau suggested civilization corrupts natural goodness, implying thought leads to depravity.
- (c) Family is the only natural society.
Rousseau considered family as the foundational natural society.
- (d) General will is an individual mind.
This is incorrect. Rousseau's general will represents the collective interest, not individual thought.

Answer: D

The Convention was the first human rights treaty of the twenty-first century. The text was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 13 December 2006, and opened for signature on 30 March 2007. Following ratification by the 20th party, it came into force on 3 May 2008.

Subject to legislation by Parliament, the power to declare any area as a 'Scheduled area' is given to the President and The Executive power of the Union shall extend to giving directions to the respective States regarding the administration of the Scheduled Areas. These provisions of the Constitution relating to the administration of the Scheduled Areas and Tribes may be altered by Parliament or by ordinary legislation. both are true. 

The Indian general election, 2014 was held to constitute the 16th Lok Sabha, electing members of parliament for all 543 parliamentary constituencies. Running in nine phases from 7 April to 12 May 2014, it lasted 36 days. According to the Election Commission of India, 814.5 million people were eligible to vote, with an increase of 100 million voters since the last general election in 2009, making it the largest ever election in the world.

Both Assertion- Some departments are concerned not only with purely administrative work but some authority to make rules and regulations is also delegated to them by the legislature and Reason- John M Pfiffner prefers single head of the department under certain circumstances are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

Right to Information Act 2005 is available to Indian citizens only.
Right to Information (RTI) is act of the Parliament of India to provide for setting out the practical regime of the right to information for citizens and replaces the erstwhile Freedom of information Act, 2002. Under the provisions of the Act, any citizen of India may request information from a "public authority" (a body of Government or "instrumentality of State") which is required to reply expeditiously or within thirty days. The Act also requires every public authority to computerise their records for wide dissemination and to proactively certain categories of information so that the citizens need minimum recourse to request for information formally.

The single transferable vote (STV) is a voting system designed to achieve proportional representation through ranked voting in multi-seat organizations or constituencies (voting districts). Under STV, an elector (voter) has a single vote that is initially allocated to their most preferred candidate.

Chester Barnard advocated 'effective communication' as a basic prerequisite for the attainment of organizational goals. 

(a) Both the Vice-Presidents are elected for a fixed term.
(b) They are the presiding officers of the upper house.
(d) They have a casting vote in case of a tie.

Andrew Heywood said that ideology should neither be thought of as liberating or oppressive, nor as true or false. It can be any these things.