1. Who among the following was the chief exponent of the concept of Political culture in the field of political science? (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

2. Gabrial Almond and Verba have identified three ideal types of political cultures. In regard to that which one of the following is not correct in given list? (KARNATAKA SET 2018 PAPER II)

3. Consider the following statements about political culture. (KARNATAKA SET 2020 PAPER II)

4. Which among the following are the features of political culture in UK as argued by Almond and Sidney Verba? (KARNATAKA SET 2020 PAPER II)

5. Attitudes, beliefs and values that underpin the working of a political system are called: (GUJARAT SET 2008)

6. Which of the following aspects of political culture is most resistant to change? (GUJARAT SET 2013 PAPER II)

7. Which of the following is not a type of political culture according to Almond? (CUET PG 2024)

8. Identify the incorrect pair (DU MA 2019)

9. Which of the following does not figure in Almond & Verba's classification of Political Cultures? (DU MA 2019)

10. Who wrote the book The Civic Culture? (DU MA 2021)

11. In Comparative Politics, the concept of civic culture is used for the study of; (JNU MA 2019)

12. Who is associated with the work The Civic Culture (1963)? (DU MA 2018)

13. Which of the following is not a type of political culture ? (Himachal Pradesh SET 2017)

14. Out of the following statements, which are correct? (SLET 17th March 2024)

In Robert Dahl's analysis following are the salient elements of culture:

(a) Orientations to problem solving.

(b) Orientations to collective action.

(c) Orientations to the political system.

(d) Orientations to political disorder.

Which of the statements given above are/is false?

15. Assertion (A): Mass tendencies in individual-level beliefs differ from one population to another, providing meaningful descriptions of a population's political culture.

Reason (R): Mass beliefs are relevant in shaping the emergence, survival, and functioning of political systems. (TELANGANA SET 2022)

16. Political culture implies: (TELANGANA SET 2022)

1. A set of values within which the political system operates.

2. The pattern of orientations to political objects among the members of a nation.

Choose the correct code:

17. Consider the following statements given below: (JAMMU & KASHMIR SET October 2023)

(i) The 'Sleeping dog' theory is associated with the concept of democratic culture.

(ii) This theory was propounded by David Easton.

Select the correct answer from the codes given below:

18. What is 'Cultural Dualism'? (GUJARAT SET 2016 PAPER 3)

19. The concept of 'civic culture' developed out of a survey of : (GUJARAT SET 2016 PAPER 3)

20. Which one of the following is not included in the concept of political culture? (KERALA SET 2018 FEBRUARY)

21. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). (KERALA SET 2019 FEBRUARY)

Assertion (A): Political culture is often seen as the foundation of all political activity, or at  least as a factor determining the nature, characteristics and level of political  activity

Reason (R): Differences in political culture amongst people develop due to the difference  in education, political training, economic and social background.

22. Cognitive, Affective and Evaluation Orientations are three components of: (KERALA SET 2021 JULY)

23. Who among the following is pioneer of political culture studies? (KERALA SET 2022 JULY)

24. "Political culture is composed of attitudes, beliefs, emotions and values of society that relate to the political system and political issues". Who said this? (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER III)

25. Attitudes toward the political system and its various parts are often called (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER III)

26. What term describes a set of attitudes and practices that shapes people’s political behaviour? (KARNATAKA SET 2015 PAPER III)

27. The political culture where individuals are aware of the outcomes of the government but do not participate in the processes that result in policy decisions is called (GUJARAT SET 2023)

28. The type of political culture in which people have little or no awareness of their political system: (KERALA SET JULY 2023)

29. Political Culture does not include (University of Hyderabad MA 2017)

30. Who defined political culture as “the sum of the fundamental values, sentiments and knowledge that give form and substance to political processes”? (JNU MA 2021)

31. Who gave the concept of 'Political Culture'? (Madhya Pradesh SET 2022)

32. "The Nadars of Tamil Nadu: The political culture at a community in change' is a study of: (RAJASTHAN SET 2020 PART 2)

33. The concept of civic culture developed out of a survey of (NET December 2012 Paper II)

34. 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): Political culture is a set of beliefs and sentiments about politics as embodied in the verbal and non-verbal behaviour of the people.

Reason (R): The typological and morphological models of political culture denote that there can be as many political cultures as the dynamics of political development in political systems.

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

35. Which term describes a set of attitudes and practices that shape people's behaviour? (WEST BENGAL SET 2018 PAPER II)

36. What is the name of Lucian Pye's work on Political Culture? (WEST BENGAL SET 2018 PAPER II)

37. According to Almond and Verba 'Civic Culture' in democratic societies resulted from the mixture of  (WEST BENGAL SET 2018 PAPER II)

38. Who among the following defined Political Culture as composed of attitudes, beliefs, emotions and values of society that relate to the political system and political issues? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

39. Robert Putnam’s work on ‘Social Capital’ associated with political culture is with reference to which country? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

40. Robert Putnam's concept of social capital is associated with the following approach to the study of comparative politics: (WEST BENGAL SET DECEMBER 2023)

41. The concept of Civic Culture was developed out of a survey of: (WEST BENGAL SET DECEMBER 2023)

42. Which of the following is not considered as a dimension of political culture? (WEST BENGAL SET DECEMBER 2023)

43. Who classified political culture in three: Parochial, Subject, participatory? (MAHARASHTRA SET 2021 PAPER II)

44. Who said, “Political culture consists of empirical beliefs, expressive symbols and values which define the situation in which political action takes place”? (KERALA SET 2015 DECEMBER)

45. Which of the following types of Political Culture is marked by the absence of a sense of citizenship? (KERALA SET 2017 FEBRUARY)

46. “Political culture consists of a system of empirical beliefs, expressive symbols and values  which defines the situation in which political action takes place”- Whose definition is this? (KERALA SET 2017 FEBRUARY)

47. Which of the following best describes the concept of Political culture? (University of Hyderabad MA 2018)

48. Which one of the following components is NOT essential in the political culture? (NET November 2021 Shift II)

49. Which of the following types of political culture is marked by the absence of a sense of citizenship? (Kerala SET July 2024)

50. Assertion (A): Political socialisation is the process of transmitting political culture, and in which political parties also act an agent.

Reason (R): All political parties strives to maintain a civic political culture

(Kerala SET July 2024)

51. Which among the following is NOT a type of orientation in a political culture in Robert Dahl's view? (NET December 2021 and June 2022 Shift II)

52. The concept of political culture involves three components of individual orientations: (NET December 2021 and June 2022 Shift II)

1. Cognitive orientations
2. Affective orientations and
3. Evaluative orientation.

53. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R): (NET December 2005)

Assertion (A): Democracy has not succeeded in most of the developing countries

Reason (R): participant political culture is lacking in developing countries

In the context of the two statements which one of the following is correct?

54. Assertion (A): There is no society today which claim a single uniform political culture.

Reason (R): Patterns of cultural change from country to country.

(NET December 2007)

55. Given below are the two statements one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R): (NET December 2008)

Assertion (A): Political socialisation is the process by which political cultures are maintained and changed.

Reason (R): Family, School, Peer groups, experiences during employment, mass media and direct contact with political system are the main agents of the process of socialisation

Code:

56. Given below are two statements one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). (NET June 2008)

Assertion (A): A political system receives a more or less continuous support from society if the process of political socialization is homogeneous.

Reason (R): The individuals cooperate with each other and there is an atmosphere of trust in the political culture.

Select the correct answer from the codes given below.

57. Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET June 2010 Paper II)

58. The term ‘Mixed Political Culture’ was used in the Indian context by (NET June 2011 Paper II)

59. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Choose the correct answer from the codes: (NET December 2013 Paper III)

Assertion (A): Democratic values command widespread acceptance within liberal democracies as an ideal, but at the same time citizens have become more critical of the working of the core institutions of representative democracy.

Reason (R): The declining faith in government represents a deflation of the political culture, reducing the capacity of the political system to achieve shared goals.

Codes:

60. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). (NET June 2014 Paper II)

Assertion (A): A federal arrangement aims at reconciling freedom with unity and diversity of political cultures and identities with effective collective action.

Reason (R): India opted for a pluralistic model of nation building.

Codes:

61. Which of the following does not figure in Almond and Verba's classification of political cultures? (NET June 2014 Paper II)

62. What are the three types of political culture according to Almond and Verba's study 'Civic Culture"? (NET December 2015 Paper III)

63. The assertion that there is no direct connection between the shape of a political culture and the stability of governance is made by (NET January 2017 Paper II)

64. Which one of the following orientations is not a part of the basic types of political culture? (NET January 2017 Paper III)

65. The first use of the concept of political culture was made by (NET January 2017 Paper III)

66. Which of the following principles are used to study the 'attitudes of people' i.e political culture in comparative politics? (NET 2023 JUNE Shift II)

A. Riker's strategic principle

B. Converse principle

C. Robinson's principle

D. Gallagher's least square index

E. Rae's factionalization index

Choose the most appropriate answer from the questions given below:

67. Political culture means: (BHU MA 2014)

68. Who has given the concepts of Political Culture? (BHU MA 2018)

69. Who wrote the book "Political Culture and Political Development"? (BSTET 2024)

70. Who made the following statement? (WEST BENGAL SET 2022)

"Political Socialisation are those developmental processes by which political cultures are formed, maintained and changed."

71. Who among the following has defined political development as “increased differentiation and specialization of political structure and increased secularisation of political culture”. (MAHARASHTRA SET 2018 PAPER III)

72. The seeds of ‘Administrative Culture’ were sown in 1963 by (KARNATAKA SET 2018 PAPER II)

73. Political socialisation is the process of induction into the political culture and the psychological dimension of the ________ system. (KARNATAKA SET 2018 PAPER II)

74. Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba's book "The Civic Culture' is a cross country survey of: (GUJARAT SET JANUARY 2002)

75. According to Almond and Verba, 'Civic Culture' in democratic societies resulted from the mixture of: (GUJARAT SET 2014 PAPER II)

76. Almond and Verba have listed three ideal types of political culture. Which one of the following has not been listed by them? (GUJARAT SET 2016 PAPER II)

77. One of the following is a system of classification by which states, institutions, processes, political cultures etc. are divided into groups with common sets of attributes (University of Hyderabad Ph.D 2022)

78. According to Almond and Verba, in the 'parochial political culture' (University of Hyderabad Ph.D 2023)

79. Which one of the following does not come under the categorisation of pure types of political culture by Almond and Verba? (JNU MA 2021)

80. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R) : (SLET 17th March 2024)

Assertion (A): A federal arrangement aims at reconciling freedom with unity and diversity of political cultures and identities with collective action.

Reason (R): India opted for a pluralistic model or nation-building.

Codes:

81. Which of the following is not a kind of political culture, as per Almond and Verba? (RAJASTHAN SET 2012 PART 1)

82. According to Almond and Powell, in which Political Culture people have the knowledge of political happenings, but they are not aware of the role they can play in it? (RAJASTHAN SET 2013 PART 2)

83. Which of the following is known as the process by which political cultures are maintained and changed? (RAJASTHAN SET 2020 PART 2)

84. Which of the following are related to Denial Elazar's concept of political culture: (RAJASTHAN SET 2020 PART 2)

(i) Post-materialistic

(ii) Moralistic

(iii) Individualistic

(iv) Traditionalistic

Choose a correct option:

85. Assertion (A) : The variation within the countries is often larger than the variation between the countries.

Reason (R): The political culture of nation states are  not homogeneous, coherent, or compact. (RAJASTHAN SET 2020 PART 2)

86. Which one of the following does not figure in Almond and Verba's classification of Political Culture? (WB SET 2015 Paper III)

87. Who among the following defines democracy as an ‘elective polyarchy'? (WB SET 2015 Paper III)

88. According to Almond and Verba, the individuals in a parochial culture have the following: (WEST BENGAL SET JANUARY 2023)

89. Which among the following is not a type of Political Culture discussed by Gabriel Almond?

90. According to Almond and Verba 'Civic Culture' in democratic societies is a mixture of which of the following?