1. "Making someone better without making others worse' is associated with which one of the following? (NET June 2019 Paper II)

2. The immigrating ethnic cultural groups which never get opportunity to become citizens under multiculturalism are called: (NET June 2019 Paper II)

3. Who authored the book, Silent Spring? (NET June 2019 Paper II)

4. Feminists argue that women's values are based primarily on (NET June 2019 Paper II)

5. Which one of the following is NOT a correct match? (NET June 2019 Paper II)

6. Given below are two statements: (NET June 2020 Paper II)

Statement I: Social democracy combines elements of liberalism and socialism to reconcile freedom and equality.

Statement II: Social democratic regimes use the system of neo corporatism wherein policy making involves the state, labour and the businesses.

In the light of the above statements, Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

7. Which of the following characterise shallow or reformist ecology? (NET June 2020 Paper II)

(A) Reformist ecology seeks to reconcile ecology with capitalist modernity

(B) It recognises 'limits to growth'

(C) It rejects all forms of anthropo- centrism, embracing ecocentri- sim

(D) It considers damage to environment as an externality or 'social cost'

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

8. Match List-I with List-II: (NET June 2020 Paper II)

9. Who among the following is NOT a post-modern thinker? (NET June 2020 Paper II)

10. Who among the following regarded state as a 'necessary evil'? (NET June 2020 Paper II)

11. Marx's concept of alienated labour includes (NET June 2020 Paper II)

(A) Alienation from the Product

(B) Alienation from the Process

(C) Alienation from Species

(D) Alienation from Nature

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

12. Which among the following is not an element of G. A. Cohen's thought on the theory of socialism? (NET June 2020 Paper II)

13. Who among the following is NOT a key figure of 'Conservatism? (NET June 2020 Paper II)

14. The combination of liberal democracy and the market had drawn a finishing line in the history of political and social development'. Who made this statement? (NET June 2020 Paper II)

15. Who among the following reformulated Hans Morgenthau's 'six principles of political realism' from a feminist perspective? (NET June 2020 Paper II)

16. According to Greek system of classification of regimes. The degenerative form of rule by many is known as (NET June 2020 Paper II)

17. The concept of 'traditional' authority involves (NET June 2020 Paper II)

18. The theory that ‘the Earth is best understood as a living entity that acts to maintain its own existence? is known as (NET June 2020 Paper II)

19. Which among the following is NOT a salient feature of 'individualist anarchism'? (NET June 2020 Paper II)

20. “All aspects of luck including natural ability, should be irrelevant to distributive justice” - This statement refers to the concept of (NET June 2020 Paper II)

21. Match List I with List II: (NET 2022 Paper II October Shift I)

22. Consider the following regarding citizenship – (NET 2022 Paper II October Shift I)

(A) A citizen is known by the rights, he is allowed to exercise

(B) A person living in the state territory is a citizen of state

(C) Citizenship can be granted through process of naturalization

(D) If one is born in the territory of a state, he will be recognized as a citizen

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

23. Which of the following is correctly matched? (NET 2022 Paper II October Shift I)

(A) Sexual Politics – Kate Millett

(B) Second Sex – Shulamith Firestone

(C) The Feminine Mystique – Betty Friedan

(D) The Dialectic of Sex – Nicholson

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

24. Which among the following defined Socialism as a chameleon, which changes according to the environment? (NET 2022 Paper II October Shift I)

25. Which of the following is not an essential condition of democracy? (NET 2022 Paper II October Shift I)

26. Which of the following book is not written by Michael Oakeshott? (NET 2022 Paper II October Shift I)

27. Who among the following coined the term ‘ecology’ in 1866? (NET 2022 Paper II October Shift I)

28. Types of policies proposed by Thedore J. Lowi (NET 2022 Paper II October Shift I)

(A) Distributive, Redistributive,

(B) Regulatory, Constituent

(C) Substantive, Procedural

(D) Distributive, Substantive

(E) Constituent, Procedural

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

29. Match List I with List II: (NET 2022 Paper II October Shift I)

30. Who among the following is the author of the book ‘Introduction to the study of Law of the constitution? (NET 2022 Paper II October Shift I)

31. Which among the following instruments of Direct Democracy are functional in Switzerland? (NET 2022 Paper II October Shift I)

(A) Landszemeinde

(B) Referendum

(C) Initiative

(D) Recall

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

32. Who among the following has defined delibrative democracy in terms of pluralistic association? (NET 2023 JUNE Shift II)

33. Karl Marx and Fredric Engels co-authored: (JMI M.A. 2016)

34. Find the correct statement with regard to Post Colonial feminism. (NET 2023 JUNE Shift I)

A.    There are differences not only between men and women but also between women from different parts of the world.

B.     Factors such as culture, ethnicity and geographic location are important for understanding marginalization of women.

C.     Postcolonial feminism situates historical knowledge of the colonialism with regard to cultural, economic and political oppression.

D.    There is a universal approach to understand subordination of women.

E.     The post-colonial feminism is exclusively different from other variants of feminisms.

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.

35. The functions of state according to individualism are: (NET 2023 JUNE Shift I)

(A) The protection of state against foreign aggression

(B) The protection of property

(C) Protection of individual against epidemics

(D) Protections of the individual's life

(E) Distribution of property in society.

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

36. Who among the following said. "Political equality, therefore, is never real unless it is accompanied by virtual economic equality; political power"? (NET 2023 JUNE Shift I)

37. Who among the following rejected the claim of 'Universal Sisterhood"? (NET 2023 JUNE Shift I)

38. Read the following Passage and answer the question:

Public policy in India is in a state of flux. The nature of the policy process has changed dramatically with an increasing role of different actors, both locally and globally. A case is made to listen to the multiple voices that are emerging in governance processes; it is argued that it is necessary to create a space for dialogue among civil society and citizens. The demand for stronger links between research and policy has grown, as much as efforts to mainstreaming public policy education to professionalize the bureaucracy.

New discourses have emerged that shape policy choices. Several discourses have been nevertheless reduced to status of rhetoric and cliché. Emerging demographic trends at the national level-such as urbanization and environmental trends at the global level, such as climate change have redefined the contours of public policy and governance, posing new challenges for policy formulation as well as engendering debates on appropriate forms of governance. Governance refers to all manners of exercising control and authority in the allocation of resources. Governance issues are thus closely tied to the processes and mechanisms through which people access resources. However, the extent to which they have improved the control of resource users, remains a moot question. Often, this has been a question of efforts at changing control relation between the state and civil society; while policies have succeeded in creating management capacity at lower levels.

The gap between 'governance' and 'government' is understood to have widened in the Indian context, as well as globally. Actors other than the state have come to acquire a greater role in the exercise of control and authority in the allocation of resources. The locus of policy making has moved from the state to other actors; markets and civil society have created greater space for themselves. State authority has been diluted by a greater influence of other actors, both at local and global levels. New discourses such as those of neo-liberalism and good governance have altered the relationships between state, markets and civil society. While the discourse of neo-liberalism was founded on the narrative of the inefficient state, the neo- liberal paradigm evoked criticisms on account of the exclusion of the poor from the provision of service delivery.

Q. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R). (NET March 2023 Shift II)

Assertion (A): Neo-Liberal paradigm was founded on the narrative of the inefficient state.

Reason (R): Neo-Liberal paradigm is inclusive in nature.

In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:

39. Read the following Passage and answer the question:

The idea of liberalist model of development is based on the free market economy and policy of laissez-faire. In this arrangement, the person is handed over to the market and it is claimed that the person is independent and can participate in the development itself. It is obvious that this model involves globalization and privatization under which it is assumed that the whole world is a village and every person can openly trade with each other. In such a system, the license system is loosen and state control is minimized and, the minimum intervention of the state is desired in the economic, political, and social sectors. Under this model, the development is synonymous with maximum production which gives greater emphasis to industrialization and urbanization. In this system, because the doors of business are open to the whole world; multinational corporations start spreading their net and the entire market of developing countries is filled with foreign products. Consequently, the domestic production of that country lags. If the scale of development is to be talked about, then the level of development is measured based on gross national production and national income. While measuring them, those persons are not considered whose income and employment are at the lowest levels in the society. Actually, this model works to create a gap in the state, in which there is a rich class on one side and on the other, a section whose own minimum requirements are not met. Definitely, this model talks about the development of the person at the economic, political, and social levels, but it keeps the 'survival of the fittest' in the center. In such a way, the holistic development of a person is impossible.

Q. Given below are two statements: (NET March 2023 Shift II)

Statement I: Liberalist model regards economic development as the precondition for individual development.

Statement II: The liberalist model does not suit to developing countries, as they feel it will be a source of neo-colonial control of developed countries.

In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:

40. Chronologically arrange books in order of their year of publication: (NET March 2023 Shift II)

A.    The State and Revolution

B.     The Political System

C.     The German Ideology

D.    The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

41. Match List I with List II: (NET March 2023 Shift II)

42. Match List I with List II: (NET March 2023 Shift II)

43. Match List I with List II: (NET March 2023 Shift II)

44. Given below are two statements: (NET March 2023 Shift II)

Statement I: The New right is concerned to advance the cause of 'liberalism' against 'democracy' by limiting the possible uses of state power.

Statement II: The free market does not always operate perfectly and its benefit radically outweigh its disadvantages.

In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

45. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R). (NET March 2023 Shift II)

Assertion (A): Justice for all is compatible with equality.

Reason (R): Justice requires positive liberty.

In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

46. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R). (NET March 2023 Shift II)

Assertion (A): The Ethics of care is a moral approach that is contrasted with justice.

Reason (R): Men in general seem to employ their reasons to justify prejudices.

In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:

47. Which of the following concepts has not been used by C.B. Macpherson? (NET March 2023 Shift II)

A.    Developmental Democracy

B.     Associational Capacity

C.     Extractive Capacity

D.    Cultural Democracy

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

48. Which of the following concepts J.F. Lytoard is associated with (NET March 2023 Shift II)

A.    Language Game

B.     A Report on Knowledge

C.     Communicative Rationality

D.    Communicational Transparency

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

49. Which of the following books are written by Lenin? (NET March 2023 Shift II)

A.    What is to be done

B.     State and Revolution

C.     What is History

D.    Marxism Today

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

50. Who is the author of the 'Authoritarian Personality'? (NET March 2023 Shift II)

51. Who said, "Justice is the first virtue of social institutions". (NET March 2023 Shift II)

52. Rights are what we may expect from others, and others from us, who said it (NET March 2023 Shift II)

53. Arrange the concepts in chronological order according to evolution. (NET March 2023 Shift I)

A.    Legal Sovereignty

B.     Popular Sovereignty

C.     Political Sovereignty

D.    Theory of Plural Sovereignty

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

54. Match List I with List II: (NET March 2023 Shift I)

55. Match List I with List II: (NET March 2023 Shift I)

56. Given below are two statements: (NET March 2023 Shift I)

Statement (I): Rights essentially belong to the sphere of conflicting claims between individual and the state.

Statement (II): Any political theory which holds that an individual cannot have certain rights against the state' is no theory of rights.

In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:

57. Given below are two statements: One is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R). (NET March 2023 Shift I)

Assertion (A): Inner contradictions of capitalism will destroy capitalism.

Reason (R): Exploitation of surplus value is the biggest contradiction of capitalism.

In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:

58. According to Follett the difference between 'power' and 'authority' is (NET March 2023 Shift I)

59. Why Robert Nozick agrees with anarchist assertions regarding the position of State? (NET March 2023 Shift I)

Pick the incorrect argument

60. When and at which place in South Africa the Indians assembled, demonstrated and took the oath of passive resistance? (NET March 2023 Shift I)

61. The 'Analects' is related to: (NET March 2023 Shift I)

62. Who among the following has used the terms internal restriction and external restriction in the discourse of multiculturalism? (NET March 2023 Shift I)

63. Sophie or Sophia is a character in which of the following books? (NET March 2023 Shift I)

64. 'A democracy is more than a form of government, it is a mode of associated living', who said this? (NET March 2023 Shift I)

65. Who wrote the book "An introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution"? (NET June 2024 Paper II)

66. RTI is a means of strengthening democracy due to: (NET June 2024)

A. Openness

B. Maintaining secrecy

C. Transparency

D. Bureaucratic red tapism

E. Accountability

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

67. In which book, Herbert Marcuse highlighted the totalitarian character of advanced industrial societies, based not on terror and open brutality but on their ability to exert control through the pervasive manipulation of needs, made possible by modern technology? (NET June 2024 Paper II)

68. Which of the following are related to Liberalism? (NET June 2024 Paper II)

A. Ideology of industrialised West

B. Advocated virtues of Laissez-faire

C. Reflects the aspiration of rising industrial powers

D. Liberalism and Communism are closely linked

E. Locke was a key thinker of liberalism

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

69. Arrange the following Chief Justices of India in the chronological order. (NET June 2024 Paper II)

A. J. Kania

B. N. Bhagwati

C. Ranganath Mishra

D. Madan Mohan Punchhi

E. H. Kapadia

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

70. Match List - I with List – II (NET June 2024 Paper II)

71. Who described democracy as "The Tyranny of the Majority"? (NET June 2024 Paper II)

72. Broadly, the term 'democracy' implies (NET June 2024 Paper II)

A. a society based on priviledge and hierarchy.

B. a system by the people based on equal opportunity and individual merit.

C. a system based on principle of majority rule.

D. a mean of filling public offices through a competitive struggle for the popular vote.

E. a system of government that serves the interests of the people regardless of their participation in political life.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

73. Marxists hold that society is characterised by: (NET June 2024 Paper II)

A. Class conflict

B. Constant harmony

C. Irreconciliable conflict

D. Division between the rich and poor

E. Domination by the rich class

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

74. Who among the following is NOT a key figure of 'Conservatism?  (NET June 2020 Paper II)

75. Which of the following book is not written by Michael Oakeshott? (NET October 2022 Paper II Shift I)

76. The positive impact of Liberalisation are:  (NET December 2019 Paper II)

(1) Foreign investment

(2) Increased production

(3) Increased unemployment

(4) Technological advancement

Choose the right answer:

77. Who among the following regarded state as a 'necessary evil'?  (NET June 2020 Paper II)

78. 36. Match List I with List II:  (NET 2022 Paper II October Shift II)

79. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R). (NET March 2023 Shift II)

Assertion (A): Neo-Liberal paradigm was founded on the narrative of the inefficient state.

80. Given below are two statements:  (NET March 2023 Shift II)

Statement I: Liberalist model regards economic development as the precondition for individual development.

Statement II: The liberalist model does not suit to developing countries, as they feel it will be a source of neo-colonial control of developed countries. In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:

81. Given below are two statements:  (NET March 2023 Shift II)

Statement I: Maximum intervention of state is needed for economic development.

Statement II: Maximum production is essential for development. In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:

82. Which of the following will be result of Industrialization?  (NET March 2023 Shift II)

A. It will create disparity between rich and poor

B. Concentration of wealth in the hands of few

C. It will create social discrimination

D. It will strengthen civil society organizations

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

83. Which of the following includes characteristics of liberalist model of development?  (NET March 2023 Shift II)

84. Which of the following is an obstacle to freedom of individual according to the liberalist model of development. (NER March 2023 Shift II)

85. Which of the following are the schools of "New Right Ideology"? (NET December 2020 & June 2021 Paper II)

A. Austrian school

B. Chicago school

C. Frankfurt school

D. New York school

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

86. In which aspect does Modern Liberalism NOT believe? (NET December 2020 & June 2021 Paper-II)

87. Arrange ideological focus of the Feminist movement under different stages in chronological order (NET December 2020 & June 2021 Paper-II)

A. Focus on right to vote for women

B. Focus on social and economic equality

C. Focus on culture and context

D. Focus on Ecofeminism

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

88. Which of the following is NOT provided to the Indian diaspora under the 'Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) scheme'? (NET December 2020 & June 2021 Paper-II)

89. Which one of the following statements is true? (NET December 2020 & June 2021 Paper-II)

90. Match List I with List II List I (NET December 2020 & June 2021 Paper-II)

91. Who has been the most prominent among the Chicago school economists? (NET December 2020 & June 2021 Paper-II)

92. How was early liberalis characterised by C. B Macpherson? (NET December 2020 & June 2021 Paper II)

93. Which among the following statements regarding citizenship in India is NOT correct? (NET December 2020 & June 2021 Paper-II)

94. What are the central beliefs of conservatism? (NET December 2020 & June 2021 Paper-II)

A. Tradition

B. Hierarchy and Authority

C. Social Darwinism

D. Social Liberalism

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

95. Who among the following are not supporters of positive liberty? (NET December 2020 & June 2021 Paper-II)

A. T. H. Green

B. John Locke

C. Harold Laski

D. Jeremy Bentham

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