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1. An empirical mode of inquiry is 6. A political unit in which the identity of

likely to privilege: a citizen is part of political legitimacy is
a. Values called:
b. Events a. The State
c. Facts b. The Nation-state
d. Norms c. The City-state
d. The Modern state
2. Which of the following is an
example of subjective political inquiry? 7. The emergence of the modern state
a. Measuring the amount of poverty may be understood as a:
among a population a. Ethical development
b. Assessment of opinion distribution b. Methodological development
before an election c. Historical development
c. Understanding pattern of traffic d. Sociological development
law adherence in a city
d. Comparing percentage of gender 8. Who among the following is not a
pay gap amongst employees contractarian thinker?
a. John Locke
3. According to the Hobbesian theory b. Thomas Hobbes
of social contract, the social contract is a c. Karl Marx
hypothetical agreement between: d. Jean Jacques Rousseau
a. The Leviathan and the People
b. The people
c. Between states 9. Karl Marx’s approach to the study of
d. each person with everyone else history is called:
a. Idealism
4. Testing the relationship between b. Class consciousness
regular elections and a robust c. Historical Materialism
democracy is what kind of research? d. Socialism
a. Inductive
b. Deductive
c. Speculative 10. The view that freedom was not the
d. Normative capacity to do as one liked but was the
alignment with a universal will is
5. The view that politics is an art of associated with:
governance may be associated with:
a. John Locke a. Kant
b. St. Augustine b. Hegel
c. Machiavelli c. Hiedegger
d. Mohandas Gandhi d. Foucault
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16. In the Marxist understanding the
proletariat is equivalent to the working
class.
11. Rational Choice Theory would a. True
typically understand politics as b. False
a. An arena of compromise and c. Conditionally true
negotiation d. Neither true nor false
b. As an art of government
c. Both a and b are true 17. Machiavelli’s famous 16th century
d. Neither a nor b is true political treatise ‘The Prince’ was part of
which literary genre (style)?
12. New Institutionalism was a a. Advice to the Princes
revision of Institutionalism in the light of: b. Praise of the Princes
a. The Positivist turn c. Biography
b. The Post-positivist turn d. Hagiography
c. The Behavioural revolution
d. The French Revolution 18. The concept of general will is given
by which of the following political
13. Which of the following may be thinkers?
understood as a critical approach to the a. Hegel
study of politics? b. Kant
a. Feminism c. Rousseau
b. Post-colonialism d. Locke
c. Marxism
d. All of the above 19. A moral philosophy of the state
based on maximising pleasure and
14. The treaty of Westphalia is minimising pain is called:
associated with the principle of : a. Egalitarianism
a. State legitimacy b. Socialism
b. Church authority c. Utilitarianism
c. State sovereignty d. Liberalism
d. State Secularism
20. Postmodernism highlights which of
15. ‘The state of nature’ as invoked in the the following shifts in societies?
theories of state is : a. From Producers to consumers
a. A historical condition in mediaeval b. From Class solidarity to
Europe individualism
b. The Thirty years’ war c. Both a and b are correct
c. The state of the colonies d. Neither a nor b is correct.
d. A theoretical device