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Who observed that the maintenance of political stability as the ultimate goal of political development ? |
Samuel Huntington
Alan Ball
Karl Marx
Robert Alan Dahl
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| 2 |
Huntington describes_____ as a multi-faced process involving change in all areas of human thought and activity |
Political Development
Political Modernization
Political Change
Political Power
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| 3 |
______ increase the capacity and capability of the political system to find and utilize the resources of the country? |
Political Development
Political Modernization
Political Change
Political Power
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| 4 |
Who said, Political Modernization is characterized "by its far-reaching ability to control or influence the physical and social circumstances of its environment and by value system______"? |
Ward
Huntington
Lucian W . Pye
Merriam
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| 5 |
Who stated, "Socialization through the mass media is the best short-run technique available and it is crucial to modernization |
Gabriel A. Almond
Samuel P. huntington
lucian W. Pye
William D. Coleman
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| 6 |
Political subculture is the part of |
Social culture
General culture
Political culture
Culture
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| 7 |
The Marxists and the radical feminists do not share which one of the following view on State power? |
Both deny that the State is an autonomous entity
Both maintain that the ideology of the State can be understood by reference to the power Structure in a society
Both are based on institutionalized structures of stratification
Both agree on the location of structure of inequality and exploitation in society
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| 8 |
'Balance of terror' is a term used in international politics to denote |
A balance of power that emerges in a multi-polar world due to multiple checks and balances
The power to deter and destroy which belongs to all States in an anarchic international system
The uneasy balance that proceeds from fear of nuclear war and also from ideological fear that are fueled by nuclear weapon States
The balance of peace that exists among the nuclear powers in terms of their equality to seize and defend territory
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| 9 |
The United States government has historically viewed terrorism as a ______problem |
Political
Social
Military
Religious
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| 10 |
Karl popper's Open Society and its Enemies is a critique of |
Plato and Aristotle
Hegel and Kant
Marx and Weber
Plato, Hegel and Marx
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| 11 |
Which of the following kinds of statements is the principal goal of comparative politics? |
Factual or descriptive statements
Value or normative statements
Explanatory or casual statements
None of these
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| 12 |
Which is the first important agent of political socialization? |
Society
State
Political party
Family
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| 13 |
A 'zero-sum game' in politics |
Has no scope for cooperation among the players in the long run in politcs
Has much scope for permanent coalitions of some players against the rest
Has infinite scope for multiple-level combinations of winning partnership strategies
Implies that ultimate ends of all 'Games' in politics are predictable and knowable
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| 14 |
'Social capital ' refers to the |
Process of management of human resources in an organization in a manner in which they become predictable inputs like fixed capital
Social consecutiveness as represented by networks, norms and trust that promote civic Engagement
Economic consequences of social action
Role of progressive taxation policies in bridging the revenue losses in democratic Societies
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| 15 |
Who defines, "Political socialization is a process by which an individual becomes acquainted with the political system which determine the reaction to political phenomenon" |
Micheal Rush, Phillip Althoff
Artemus Ward
Alam R. Ball
David Easton
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| 16 |
The concept of 'power elites 'is connected with |
Austin
pareto
Gaetano Mosca
Wright Mills
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| 17 |
Which one of the following is a central attribute of Plato's notion of justice? |
Equality
Liberty
Harmony
Fraternity
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| 18 |
Which among the following is not a features of sovereignty? |
Absoluteness
Permanence
Indivisibility
Delegation
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| 19 |
The notion of sovereignty was first formulated by: |
Plato
Laski
Aristotle
Jean Bodin
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| 20 |
Who said that "justice is the bond which holds society together". |
Green
Hegel
Plato
Rousseau
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