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3. Which one of the following political doctrines is associated with the view that a mixed racial stock State is inferior to a State having people of a pure race? (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

(A) Nationalism

(B) Fascism

(D) Marxism

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4. Who among the following proclaimed the theory of “One Nation, One State”? (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

(A) Mazzini

(B) Acton

(D) Lenin

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5. The concept of political system has replaced the traditional concept of (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

(A) Laws

(B) Sovereignty

(D) Executive

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6. Who said “State was not created on any single day or at a particular time”? (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

(A) Revolutionists

(B) Evolutionists

(D) Pragmatists

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7. “If there are more who possess authority and none who obey, there is anarchy and the State is at an end”, this statement refers to (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER II)

(A) State

(B) Government

(D) Bureaucracy

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8. “Without Government the population would be an incoherent unorganised anarchic mass with no means of collective union” who said this? (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER II)

(A) Laski

(B) Garner

(D) Bluntschli

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9. Which of the following treaties ended the thirty years war:- (DU MA 2019)

1. Peace of Westphalia

2. Treaty of Vienna

3. Treaty of Utrecht

4. Treaty of Versailles

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10. A. Westphalia was not a European-wide agreement, but a local affair. (DU MA 2021)

B. Westphalia decreed that each territory would retain the religion it held on 1 January 1624.

C. Westphalia is the only starting point for thinking about these issues.

D. In the 1890s global order was widely understood through the lens of liberal internationalism or liberal solidarism.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. All are correct

2. A, B, and C only

3. A and B only

4. B, C, and D only

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11. Which one of the following depict the Westphalian Constitution of World Politics? (DU MA 2018)

(A) Sovereignty

(B) Territoriality

1. B and C only

2. A, B and C

3. A and B only

4. None

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12. State autonomy is challenged in the "Post-Westphalian" order because:- (DU MA 2018)

1. In a more interdependent world, national governments are forced to engage in extensive multilateral collaboration and co-operation simply to achieve domestic objectives.

2. By comparison with the heyday of European global empires the majority of the world population and countries in the South are now much less integrated into the global system.

3. State power nationalism and territorial boundaries are of growing not less importance in world politics.

4. Countries appear as autonomous containers of political, social and economic activity in that fixed borders separate the domestic sphere from the world outside.

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13. Robert Morrison Maclver wrote the following book: (CUET PG 2021)

1. The Modern State

2. Leviathan

3. Modern Prince

4. Homo Sacer

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14. About which of the following thinkers it has been said that his theory of the State is "an incongruous mixture of natural rights and physiological metaphor"? (Presidency University Masters Entrance Questions 2017)

(A) Bradley

(B) Spencer

(D) Burke

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15. What is the sanction behind laws? (Bihar PGT 2023)

(A) The Legislature

(B) The State

(D) More than one of the above

(E) None of the above

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16. Assertion (A): The governments cannot govern without a well-developed network of state organs charged with advising political decision-makers about different policy options and implementing policies once they have been decided upon.

Reason (R): The modern state invariably includes a vast array of ministries, departments, agencies, bureaus, and other officiously titled institutions whose purview may range from the domestic economy to education, health, the environment, international trade, foreign relations, and so on. (TELANGANA SET 2023)

1. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A

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

3. A is true but R is false

4. A is false but R is true

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17. Who among the following contributed significantly in the understanding of theories of interaction between social dominance and State power in contemporary India? (JAMMU & KASHMIR SET JUNE 2022)

(A) Francine R. Frankel and M.S.A. Rao

(B) Myron Weiner

(D) Partha Chatterjee

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'রাষ্ট্রবিজ্ঞানের শুরু ও শেষ রাষ্ট্র দিয়ে' এই বক্তব্য কার? (7^TH SLST 2023)

(A) ডেভিড ইস্টন

(B) হ্যারল্ড লাসওয়েল

(D) কার্ল মার্কস

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বাস্তব সার্বভৌমত্বের ভিত্তি হল (7^TH SLST 2023)

(A) আইন

(B) বলপ্রয়োগ

(D) সরকার

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নিম্নলিখিতের মধ্যে কে রাষ্ট্রের ধারণার সমর্থক নন? (7^TH SLST 2023)

(A) হায়েক

(B) ল্যাক্সি

(D) নজিক

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“Lectures on Jurisprudence” গ্রন্থটির লেখক (7^TH SLST 2023)

(A) বোদাঁ

(B) অস্টিন

(D) ল্যাস্কি

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22. “The Man on Horseback: The Role of Military in Politics" is written by: (KERALA SET 2022 JULY)

A) S. E Finer

B) Alfred Stepan

C) Samuel P Huntington

D) Ortega Grasset

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23. Who said that history without political science has no trust and political science without history has no root? (BHU MA 2014)

(1) Machiavelli

(2) Max Weber

(3) Seeley

(4) Lindsay

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24. Who among the following said that study of politics involves power, rule and authority? (BHU MA 2014)

(1) Easton

(2) Charlesworth

(3) Dahl

(4) Apter

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25. Who among the following said that political science begins and ends with the state? (BHU MA 2014)

(1) Plato

(2) Hobbes

(3) Garner

(4) Robert Dahl

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26. In which of the following years the Peace Treaty of Westphalia was concluded? (BHU MA 2019)

1. 1648

2. 1658

3. 1708

4. 1725

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27. Society: (JMI M.A. 2019)

A) Is a secondary association

B) Cannot exist without the state

C) Is a primary association

D) Is a temporary association

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28. What does the government represents in relations to the state? (JMI M.A. 2019)

A. A concrete concept

B. A fluid concept

C. Government and the State are interchangeable

D. Government is superior to the state

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29. “A State is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory” is the statement credited to: (JMI M.A. 2019)

A. Marx Weber

B. Karl Marx

C. Max Weber

D. Andrew Llyod Webber

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30. Match List I with List II: (NET 2023 JUNE Shift I)

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

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

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

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

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31. Who said, "Political Science begins and ends with the state"? (Presidency University Bachelor Degree Entrance Test 2019)

(A) Gettel

(B) Garner

(D) Bagehot

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32. Which one of the following statement is correct? (BHU MA 2014)

(1) State is a divine institution

(2) State is natural institution

(3) State is an evil

(4) State is a man made institution

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33. Who said that study of politics is the study of inflence and the influential? (BHU MA 2014)

(1) Easton

(2) Powell

(3) Almund

(4) Lasswell

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34. 'Rational Legal Authority' is characteristic of: (BHU MA 2015)

(1) Society

(2) State

(3) Church

(4) Family

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35. Citizenship is a concept primarily related to: (BHU MA 2015)

(1) Society

(2) State

(3) Province

(4) World

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36. Match names of List I with ideas of List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (WB SET 2017 Paper III)

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37. The arguments regarding the decline of political theory is associated with (WB SET 2017 Paper II)

(A) Isaiah Berlin

(B) Alfred Cobban

(D) Immanuel Kant

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

Assertion (A): People and the state are of the same status.

Reason (R): People create the state.

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

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

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

(D) (A) is false but (R) is true

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39. Assertion (A): States and the State are basic and permanent features of the modern Political Life.

Reason (R): The state system and Modernity are not closely related historically.

(NET December 2007)

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

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

(D) (A) is false but (R) is true

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40. Resurgence of political theory was emphatically arrested by: (NET June 2009)

(A) David Truman

(B) Gabriel Almond

(D) Maurice Duverger

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41. Give the chronological order of the following events in the evolution of the modern State system. (NET December 2009 Paper II)

(i) Vienna Congress

(ii) Paris Peace Treaties

(iii) Treaty of Westphalia

(iv) The Treaty of Utrect

Codes:

(A) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)

(B) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

(D) (iv) (ii) (i) (iii)

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42. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). (NET December 2010 Paper II)

Assertion (A): The State is neither the handiwork of God, nor the result of superior physical force, nor the creation of resolution or convention, nor a mere expansion of the family.

Reason (R): The State is an institution of natural growth.

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

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

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

(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

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43. Given below are two statements, Assertion (A) and Reason (R): (NET December 2011 Paper II)

Assertion (A): The Westphalian state system created in 1648 is not valid in the post-Communist world.

Reason (R): Because the sanctity of territorial sovereignty can be done away with UN sanctions.

Choose the correct answer from the codes below:

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

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

(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

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44. The word 'theory', derived from the Greek word 'Theoria' means (NET December 2012 Paper III)

(a) A well-organized political system

(b) A well-focused mental look

(d) A system of physical arrangement

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45. Match the List-I with the List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET June 2008)

(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

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