Joseph Allious Schumpeter
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1. Who has described election as the heart of Democracy? (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER III)
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2. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched? (JNU MA 2020)
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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)
Schumpeter, an influential economist and political scientist, articulated this perspective in his work "Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy" (1942). He argued that the primary function of democracy is to select leaders through competitive elections, and once elected, these leaders should be entrusted with the task of making policy decisions. This minimalist or procedural view of democracy contrasts with more participatory or deliberative models, which advocate for broader and more active citizen involvement in democratic processes.
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4. Match the following: (DU MA 2018)
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5. Who among the following scholars argues that the electoral system determines the nature of party system? (Bihar PGT 2023)
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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)
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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.
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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)
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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)
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10. Which is not the feature of Schumpeter’s elite model of participatory democracy? (MAHARASHTRA SET 2019 PAPER II)
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11. Match List I with List II: (NET March 2023 Shift II)
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12. Match List I with List II: (NET March 2023 Shift II)
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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)
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14. The elitist theory of democracy is propounded by: (GUJARAT SET JANUARY 2002)
Joseph Schumpeter’s contributions to the Elite Theory of Democracy are foundational in political theory and provide a significant critique of classical democratic ideals. Schumpeter’s views are primarily articulated in his influential work, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942), where he offers a distinctive perspective on how democracy functions in practice.
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