Joseph Allious Schumpeter - Political Science Coaching Centre

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Joseph Allious Schumpeter

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1. Who has described election as the heart of Democracy? (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER III)

(A) Woodrow Wilson

(B) Abraham Lincoln

(C) James Bryce

(D) Joseph Schumpeter

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2. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched? (JNU MA 2020)

(A) S. M. Lipset - The Political Man

(B) Lasswell - Politics who gets what, when, how?

(C) J. Schumpeter - Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

(D) R. M. MacIver - Modern Constitution

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3. Who among the following considered democracy as nothing more than periodic elections and ordinary citizens, beyond the act of voting, should have no role in shaping policy? (DU MA 2019)

1. Joseph A. Schumpeter

2. Larry Diamond

3. Juan Linz

4. Robert Dahl

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4. Match the following: (DU MA 2018)

1. i,B; ii. A; iii, D iv. C

2. i,C; ii, B; iii. D; iv. A

3. i, B; ii, C; iii, D; iv, A

4. i, A; ii, B; iii, C; iv, D

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5. Who among the following scholars argues that the electoral system determines the nature of party system? (Bihar PGT 2023)

(A) Mitchell

(B) Schumpeter

(C) Duverger

(D) More than one of the above

(E) None of the above

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6. Who among the following summed up in his book Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy that the democratic method is an 'institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote"? (TELANGANA SET 2022)

1. Robert Dahl

2. Bhikhu Parekh

3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

4. Joseph Schumpeter

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7. Consider the following statements about Joseph Allious Schumpeter. (Rajasthan SET 2020)

(i) Joseph Allious Schumpeter draws an analogy between Political behavior and market behavior where leaders compete for people's vote, the vote having the same importance as money in the market.

(ii) He perceives a division between political activists and passive electorate as a key to strong, efficient government and defense of liberty.

(1) only (i) is correct.

(2) only (ii) is correct

(3) Both (i) and (ii) are correct.

(4) Neither (i), nor (ii) is correct.

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8. Who among the following thinkers democratic has described method as 'institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of competitive struggle for the people's vote'? (Rajasthan SET 2020)

(1) Joseph Schumpeter

(2) C.W. Mills

(3) Tom Bottomore

(4) Karl Kautsky

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9. Who is associated with the sentence?‘ The will of the people is the product and not the motive power of political process.’ (MAHARASHTRA SET 2020 PAPER II)

(A) Robert Dahl

(B) Joseph Schumpeter

(C) Steven Lukas

(D) S. M. Lipset

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10. Which is not the feature of Schumpeter’s elite model of participatory democracy? (MAHARASHTRA SET 2019 PAPER II)

(A) Common people do not have capacity to make intelligent decisions in area of politics.

(B) In democracy the actual power is in the hands of an elite minority.

(C) Democracy is competition between elites and masses.

(D) In democracy the role of citizens duty begins and ends with selecting — via ballot box — the individual or party.

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

1. A - IV, B - III, C-I, D - II

2. A - IV, B-I, C - III, D - II

3. A - III, B - II, C-I, D - IV

4. A III, B-I, C-IV, D-II

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

1. A - IV, B - III, C-II, D - I

2. A - III, B - IV, C-I, D - II

3. A - II, B-III, C-I, D - IV

4. A - II, B - III, C - IV, D-I

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13. Who defines political economy as a comprehensive set of economic policies on the strength of certain unifying normative principles of economic liberalism and socialism? (GUJARAT SET DECEMBER 2017 PAPER III)

(A) Gunnar Myrdal

(B) Maynard Keynes

(C) Amartya Sen

(D) Joseph Schumpeter

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14. The elitist theory of democracy is propounded by: (GUJARAT SET JANUARY 2002)

(A) Pareto

(B) Mosca

(C) Michels

(D) Schumpeter

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