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Karnataka SET Unit 1: Political Theory

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Category: Rights

1. 'Right is a reasonable claim recognised by society and enforced by law'. Whose statement is this? (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER III)

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Category: Multiculturalism

2. How does Kymlika define a 'nation-state'? (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER III)

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Category: Feminism

3. Feminists are suspicious of (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER III)

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Category: Democracy

4. Abraham Lincoln's famous statement of democracy was expressed for the first time at (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER III)

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Category: Rights

5. Right to form association is a (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER III)

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Category: Feminism

6. Feminist theorists in International relations point out that history and structure of, and knowledge about International relations are all (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER II)

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Category: Law

7. Under Rule of Law (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER II)

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Category: Power

8. When power is diffused among several sectors and becomes difficult to locate the real authority, the situation leads to (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER II)

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Category: Multiculturalism

9. Match List - I with List - II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER II)

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Category: Liberalism in Political Theory

10. Equality before law is one of the basic (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER II)

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Category: Communitarianism

11. Communitarianism is an ideology that emphasises (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER II)

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Category: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

12. Modern conceptions of Democracy are rooted in (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER II)

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Category: Positivism and Post-Positivism

13. Who is generally regarded as the father of positivism? (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER II)

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Category: Uncategorized

14. Justice M.B. Shah Commission is probing into (KARNATAKA SET 2015 PAPER III)

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Category: Democracy

15. ‘Polyarchy’ means (KARNATAKA SET 2015 PAPER III)

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Category: Democracy

16. Assertion (A): Kant believed that if more countries become democratic it would lead to world peace.

Reason (R): Democratic countries have fewer chances of fighting with each other.

(KARNATAKA SET 2015 PAPER III)

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Category: Feminism

17. A well-known feminist slogan is that the personal is (KARNATAKA SET 2015 PAPER III)

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Category: Power

18. Assertion (A): Without the power no state in International relation sustain themselves.

Reason (R): Power is seen as the ultimate goal of the State.

(KARNATAKA SET 2015 PAPER II)

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Category: Democracy

19. Hard critics’ of constitutional forms of government argue that liberal democratic constitutions (KARNATAKA SET 2015 PAPER II)

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Category: Rights

20. Three of the following are external protections and one is an internal restriction. Which is an internal restriction? (KARNATAKA SET 2015 PAPER II)

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Category: Aristotle

21. Who among the following argued “Justice is the political good and this consists in what is of common advantage”? (KARNATAKA SET 2015 PAPER II)

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Category: Sovereignty of the State

22. Who is of the view that the sovereign cannot tax his subjects without their consent? (KARNATAKA SET 2015 PAPER II)

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Category: Liberalism in Political Theory

23. Which one of the following has been wrongly listed as a feature of constitutional government? (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

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Category: Liberty

24. The concept of natural liberty is associated with (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

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Category: Friedrich Hegel

25. Questions are matching type. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer code. (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

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Category: Political Economy

26. Questions are matching type. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer code. (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

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Category: Thomas Hobbes

27. Questions are matching type. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer code. (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

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Category: Democracy

28. Lord Bryce has written That form of government in which the ruling power of a state is legally vested, not in any particular class, but in the members of the community as a whole. Which form of government is he referring to? (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

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Category: Democracy

29. Given below are two statements, one labeled as Assertion (A) and other labeled as Reason (R). Find the correct answer using the codes given below. (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

Assertion (A): Political participation does not necessarily mean playing of an equal part by all.

Reason (R): Greater political awareness and increasing opportunities lead to egalitarian political participation.

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

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Category: T. H. Green

30. Questions are matching type. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer code. (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

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Category: Liberty

31. Which one of the following statements is correct? (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

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Category: Democracy

32. Which one of the following conditions is essential for the smooth working of democracy has been wrongly listed? (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

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Category: Democracy

33. Democracy rose as a reaction against (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

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Category: Equality

34. The philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries emphasised (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

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Category: Rights

35. Who said There can be no identity of treatment and identity of reward so long as men differ in their needs and capacities? (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

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Category: Rights

36. Given below are two statements one labeled as Assertion (A) and other labeled as Reason (R). Find the correct answer using the codes given below: (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

Assertion (A): Right to equality suggests that people ought to have an  equal opportunity to demonstrate their particular capabilities and not be governed by the accident of their birth.

Reason (R): All are equal in virtue, talent, rational capacity and endeavour.

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

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Category: Equality

37. Which one of the following has been wrongly listed as constituting equality? (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

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Category: Sovereignty of the State

38. Consider the following statements of Acquinas regarding sovereignty. (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

1.      Acquinas did not directly deal with the problem of sovereignty and expressed only indirect ideas about the same.

2.      According to Acquinas from the theological point of view the sovereignty is derived from one source i.e. God.

3.      According to Acquinas from political point of view, sovereignty is drawn from one source i.e. people.

4.      Acquinas is silent absolutely about the concept of sovereignty.

Of the above statements:

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Category: Liberty

39. Which of the following conditions safeguard liberty? (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

1.      Written Constitution

2.      Eternal Vigilance

3.      Fundamental Rights

4.      Independence of Judiciary

Select the correct answer from the following codes:

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Category: Equality

40. The main features of equality are (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

1.      Absence of special privileges.

2.      Provision of adequate opportunities to all individuals for development of their creative faculties.

3.      Non-discrimination on grounds of race, colour, religion etc.

4.      Equal distribution of wealth and resources.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

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Category: Law

41. If the character of the people is sound, laws are unnecessary, if unsound, laws are useless. Who expressed the view? (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER II)

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Category: Political Theory

42. Who one among the following is not associated with decline of Political Theory? (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER II)

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Category: Modernism & Post Modernism

43. Choose the correct option from the codes given below: (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER II)

The theories of modernisation were criticised by

a.       Dependency theories

b.      Liberal theories

c.       Under development theories

d.      World systems theories

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Category: Sovereignty of the State

44. Which one of the following pairs is wrongly matched? (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER II)

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Category: Modernism & Post Modernism

45. Which among the following is not a dimension of political modernisation? (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER II)

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Category: John Rawls

46. Rawl’s principle of distributive justice is based on the notion of (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

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Category: Idealism

47. The Idealist theory about the functions of State is also known as (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

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Category: Democracy

48. Given below are the two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labeled as Reason (R). (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

Assertion (A): Democracy tends to be weak in a plural society.

Reason (R): Plural societies are based on unity and diversity.

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

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Category: Plato

49. Given below are two statements, one labeled as Assertion (A) and the other labeled as Reason (R) (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

Assertion (A): According to Ancient Greek thinkers the State was a man made institution.

Reason (R): State is a Union of families.

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Category: Democracy

50. The classical theory of democracy can be traced to the writings of (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

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Category: Democracy

51. The pluralist theory of Democracy is (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

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Category: Liberty

52. The concept of natural liberty is associated with (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

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Category: Granville Austin

53. Credit for preaching the legal theory of Rights goes to (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

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Category: Behaviouralism & Post-Behaviouralism in Political Theory

54. Match the Following List. (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

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Category: T. H. Green

55. Who one among the following was an English Idealist? (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

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Category: Socialism

56. Which one of the following statement is not correct? (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

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Category: State Theory

57. Which political scientist stated that; “Political Science begins and ends with the State”? (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

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Category: State Theory

58. Who said “An uninhabited portion of earth, taken in itself, can’t form a State”? (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

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Category: State Theory

59. 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)

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Category: State Theory

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

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Category: Roman and Medieval Political Thought

61. ‘The City of God’ of St. Augustine in the middle ages was considered as the first book on  (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

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Category: Idealism

62. The ‘idealist theory of rights’ is also known as the  (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

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Category: Communitarianism

63. Who coined first the word ‘Communitarian’ in 20th century? (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

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Category: Communitarianism

64. Which of the following teams belong to communitarians? (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

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Category: Liberalism in Political Theory

65. Which one of the following statement is correct? (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

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Category: State Theory

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

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Category: John Stuart Mill

67. “J.S. Mill was the prophet of empty liberty”. Who said this statement? (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

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Category: State Theory

68. “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)

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Category: Jeremy Bentham

69. The statement “the greatest happiness of the greatest number” is attributed to (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER II)

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Category: Liberalism in Political Theory

70. In the political sphere, liberalism did not advocate (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER II)

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Category: T. H. Green

71. Match the following criticisms of the social contract theory: (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER II)

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Category: Jaya Prakash Narayan

72. Which one of the following statements is not a guideline of Jeevandaani of Jaya Prakash Narayan ? (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER II)

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Category: Roman and Medieval Political Thought

73. Which is the correct chronological order in which the following emerged? (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER II)

1.      The Greek City State

2.      The Roman Empire

3.      The Feudal State

4.      The Nation State

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Category: Political Theory

74. Which one of following is a supporter of the argument that ‘political theory is neither dying nor dead’?  (KARNATAKA SET 2018 PAPER II)

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Category: Political Theory

75. The English Word ‘theory’ was originated from  (KARNATAKA SET 2018 PAPER II)

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Category: Political System of France

76. The Right to Universal Adult Franchise was given in France in the year (KARNATAKA SET 2018 PAPER II)

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Category: Democracy

77. Given below are two statements, one labeled as Assertion (A) and the other labeled as Reason (R). (KARNATAKA SET 2018 PAPER II)

Assertion (a): Democracy is a system of government in which every citizen, irrespective of his or her age, is equally free to express views and desires upon all subjects in whatever way he or she wishes.

Reason (R): There are some presumptions of democracy that the individual is rational and has the capacity to think and discuss the general problems of the community, that individual is sovereign over his body and mind and that there is no conflict between the good of the individual and the good of the community.

In the context of the above statements, which of the following is true?

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Category: Mao Ze Dong

78. The essence of Mao Tse Tung’s ‘New Democracy’ is (KARNATAKA SET 2018 PAPER II)

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Category: Liberalism in Political Theory

79. ‘Liberalism coincides with the tradition’. This thought begins with (KARNATAKA SET 2018 PAPER II)

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Category: Democracy

80. __________ said, “Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in Government”. (KARNATAKA SET 2018 PAPER II)

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Category: Democracy

81. Which one of the following are the true functions of electoral process in a democracy? (KARNATAKA SET 2018 PAPER II)

1.      To keep the government responsive to the popular will

2.      To bring together citizens to choose public decision-makers

3.      To change the government periodically if necessary.

4.      To support a competitive party system

Code:

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Category: Liberty

82. Liberty in positive sense means (KARNATAKA SET 2018 PAPER II)

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Category: John Rawls

83. Match List - I with List - II and select the correct answer from the code given below: (KARNATAKA SET 2018 PAPER II)

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Category: Democracy

84. According to Acquinas, which of the following was a perverted form of Government? (KARNATAKA SET 2018 PAPER II)

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Category: Liberalism in Political Theory

85. Who said there is relationship between unemployment and inflation? (KARNATAKA SET 2018 PAPER II)

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Category: Aristotle

86. Who stated that “Democracy is based on a false assumption of equality”? (KARNATAKA SET 2018 PAPER II)

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Category: Friedrich Hegel

87. In the medieval times, the king was considered as (KARNATAKA SET 2018 PAPER II)

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Category: Karl Marx

88. Match the List - I with List - II and choose the correct answer from the codes given below. (KARNATAKA SET 2020 PAPER II)

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Category: Uncategorized

89. Consider the following statements with regard to Marxism. (KARNATAKA SET 2020 PAPER II)

1.      Class structure is inherent to feudal society.

2.      Matter is the essence of the universe.

3.      Historical materialism represents the scientific basis.

4.      Dialectical materialism represents the philosophical basis.

Select the correct answer.

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Category: Uncategorized

90. Given below are the two statements, one labeled as Assertion (A) and the other labeled as Reason (R). (KARNATAKA SET 2020 PAPER II)

Assertion (a): Negative liberty of the individual consists in not being prevented from attaining his goal by other human beings.

Reason (R): Freedom is absence of restraints.

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

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Category: Marxism

91. Ernnest Mandel a Marxist scholar is one of who argued about _________ bureaucracy. (KARNATAKA SET 2020 PAPER II)

1.      Working class

2.      Libertarian

3.      Post capitalist

4.      Fascist

Codes:

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Category: Uncategorized

92. Which one of the following statements is correct? (KARNATAKA SET 2020 PAPER II)

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Category: Granville Austin

93. Who among the following has raised the issues of Sovereignty? (KARNATAKA SET 2020 PAPER II)

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Category: Democracy

94. Who said “Democracy is that form of government which the mass of population possess the right to share the exercise of the sovereign power”? (KARNATAKA SET 2020 PAPER II)

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Category: Conservatism

95. Which one of the following is NOT a central belief of conservatism? (KARNATAKA SET 2020 PAPER II)

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Category: Feminism

96. Match the international theories (List - I) and their important proponents (List - II) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. (KARNATAKA SET 2020 PAPER II)

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Category: Structural Marxism

97. Given below are two statements, one labeled as Assertion (A) and the other labeled as Reason (R). (KARNATAKA SET 2020 PAPER II)

Assertion (a): Structuralists make no distinction between the national and the international.

Reason (R): The State system is determined by the global capitalist system.

In the context of the above statements, which of the following is true?

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Category: Uncategorized

98. Match List - I with List - II and select the correct answer using the codes given below. (KARNATAKA SET 2020 PAPER II)

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Category: Multiculturalism

99. Match List - I with List – II and select the correct answer using the codes given below. (KARNATAKA SET 2020 PAPER II)

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Category: M. N. Roy

100. Which among the following advocated a partyless democracy? (KARNATAKA SET 2020 PAPER II)

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