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Common University Entrance Test (CUET) Power

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Power PYQs

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1. “Power in a democratic society requires control, and the greater the power the more need for control.” Who said this? (Bihar PGT 2023)

(A) L. D. White

(B) Lord Bryce

(C) H. J. Laski

(D) More than one of the above

(E) None of the above

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2. Match the conception of power with the thinker (DU MA 2018)

1. a-iv, b-i, c-iii, d-ii

2. a-iii, b-ii, c-iv, d-i

3. a-i, b-ii, c-iv, d-iii

4. a-ii, b-iii, c-iv, d-i

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3. Who among the following talked about a 'Third Dimension of Power'? (DU MA 2018)

1. Hannah Arendt

2. Hans Morgenthau

3. Steven Lukes

4. Michel Foucault

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4. Which of the following is considered as a question of who gets their way, how often they get their way, and over what issues they get their way (TELANGANA SET 2022)

1. Legitimacy

2. Obedience

3. Power

4. Liberty

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5. Assertion (A): All politics is about power. The practice of politics is often portrayed as little more than the exercise of power.

Reason (R): Students of politics are students of power: they seek to know who has it, how it is used and on what basis it is exercised. (TELANGANA SET 2022)

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

2. (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 (A)

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

(A) Pluralism

(B) Mobocracy

(C) Polyarchy

(D) Anarchy

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7. 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)

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

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

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

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

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8. Which one of the following is true about the concept of power? (GUJARAT SET 2010)

(A) It is a relationship of dominance and subordination among men

(B) It depends upon the capacity to influence others

(C) It is used to achieve desired ends

(D) All of the above

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9. Power defined as ‘the production of intended effects’ is associated with? (JMI M.A. 2021-2022)

A) Thomas Hobbes

B) John Rawls

C) Bertrand Russel

D) Robert Dahl

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10. Select the incorrect attribute of modernisation from the following: (MAHARASHTRA SET 2017 PAPER III)

(A) Equality

(B) Capacity

(C) Power

(D) Differentation

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11. Which attribute of ‘Power’ is incorrectly stated? (MAHARASHTRA SET 2018 PAPER III)

(A) Capacity to influence

(B) Embodiment of reason

(C) Based on force

(D) Not backed by law

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12. Which among the following is not an “Intellectual foundation stone” of behavioralism according to David Easton? (KERALA SET 2022 JULY)

A) Power

B) Regularities

C) Techniques

D) Verification

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13. "Where there is power, there is resistance and yet, or rather consequently, this resistance is never in a position of exteriority to power." Who made this statement? (RAJASTHAN SET 2020 PART 2)

(1) Henry David Thoreau

(2) Mahatma Gandhi

(3) Michel Foucault

(4) Gene Sharp

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14. According to Follett the difference between 'power' and 'authority' is (NET March 2023 Shift I)

1. Power exists when orders are obeyed irrespective of resistance, authority exists when orders obeyed voluntarily.

2. Power can never be delegated, authority can be delegated.

3. Authority exists when orders are obeyed irrespective of resistance, power exists when orders obeyed by force.

4. Authority can never be delegated, power can always be delegated.

5. Question or options are wrong

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15. Which among the following is not a significant aspect of the genealogical concept of power? (WEST BENGAL SET DECEMBER 2023)

(A) Knowledge

(B) Surveillance

(C) Resistance

(D) None of the above

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16. Match List - I with List - II and choose your answer from the codes given below: (JNU MA 2020)

(A) A - I, B - II, C - III, D - IV

(B) A - III, B - IV, C - II, D - I

(C) A - IV, B - III, C - I, D - II

(D) A - II, B - I, C - IV, D - III

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17. Match List I with List II (DU MA 2021)

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

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

3. A-IV, BII, C-I, D-III

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

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18. Who considered political power as the relationship in which one person or a group is able to determine the actions of another in the direction of the powers' own ends? (WB SET 2015 Paper III)

(A) Max Weber

(B) Woodrow Wilson

(C) Robert Dahl

(D) David Easton

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19. Who said that power is held in trust and used by those in authority for the benefit of all? (WB SET 2015 Paper III)

(A) Marx

(B) Weber

(C) Laski

(D) Hobbes

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20. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R): (NET December 2012 Paper III)

Assertion (A): Once the leaders reach the pinnacle of power, nothing can bring them down.

Reason (R): The majority of human beings, according to Michels, are apathetic, indolent and slavish.

Codes:

(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).

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

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

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21. Consider the following statements: (WEST BENGAL SET 2018 PAPER II)

(i) Authority is broader than power.

(ii) Power is capacity to act, authority provides right to act.

(iii) Relations of authority are hierarchical.

(iv) Legitimacy and legality are the same.

Which of the above statements is not true?

(A) (i)

(B) (ii)

(C) (iii)

(D) (iv)

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22. Which one of the following statements is incorrect? (WEST BENGAL SET JANUARY 2023)

(A) Pluralist theories understand power as primarily economically determined.

(B) Pluralist theories understand power as hierarchically and vertically arranged.

(C) Pluralist theories understand power as non-hierarchically and competitively arranged.

(D) All of the above

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23. The distinctive features of Steven Lukes' views on power are summarised in which of the following statements? (JNU MA 2021)

1. Power as decision making

2. Power as decision‐making and non decision‐making

3. Power as control over political agenda

4. All of the above

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