List of top Political Science Questions on Political Theory and Thought

Which of the following is/are correct about the Hawthorne Experiments?
A. It was a pioneering study of how individuals behave in organisations.
B. It was carried out at the Hawthorne Works of Western Electric Company, U.K.
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Which Constitutional Amendment lowered the voting age from 21 years to 18 years ?

The Constitution (Forty-Second Amendment) Act, 1976 added three words to the Preamble of the Constitution of India.
A. Socialist
B. Secular
C. Integrity
D. Unity
E. Federal
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Which Constitutional Amendment ended the Parts A, B and C categories of States and implemented the States Reorganization Scheme?

Which powers and responsibilities are not endowed by the Constitution to the Panchayats?

What was the duration of the Constituent Assembly?

What is the key guide to statecraft in the realist tradition?

Which of the following is NOT an organ of the State as presented in the Saptanga Theory in Arthashastra?

According to Rawls, the correct principles of Justice are determined by?

Which among the following option is NOT a foreign policy alternative according to Kautilya in his Arthashastra?

Which among the following statements are CORRECT about Mahatma Gandhi's idea on Ahimsa?
(A) Mahatma Gandhi believed that satya led him to ahimsa.
(B) He distinguished between the positive and negative meanings of satya and ahimsa.
(C) Ahimsa was the manifest part of Truth.
(D) Ahimsa is the means and Truth is the end.
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According to Aristotle what was the perverted form of Aristocracy?

According to J.S. Mill, the rational ground for coercion of an individual is-

Who among the following thinkers conceptualized positive and negative freedom?

Who among the following thinkers said, "The nation..... is an imagined political community- imagined; both as, inherently limited and sovereign...."?

Who among the following political thinkers considered democracy to be "the tyranny of the majority"?

Which of the following statement are CORRECT about Rousseau's concept of the General Will?
(A) Rousseau in his Discourse on Political Economy stated the concept of the General Will.
(B) General Will is driven towards the preservation and welfare of the whole and of every part.
(C) The General Will comes from all and applies to all.
(D) It embodies the free rational will of all.
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Who among the following political thinkers said "Man is born free and he is everywhere in chains"?

Who among the following thinkers gave the concept of 'virtu'?

Who defined citizenship as ‘full membership of a community’?

Morgenthau's principles of political realism are:
(A) Politics is rooted in permanent and unchanging human nature which is basically self-centered, self-regarding, and self-interested
(B) Politics is an autonomous sphere of action and cannot therefore be reduced to morals
(C) International Politics is an arena of conflicting self-interests
(D) The ethics of international relations is situational ethics which is very different from private morality
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Arrange in a chronological order Karl Marx’s idea of historical stages of society?
(A) Primitive Communism
(B) Slave Society
(C) Feudalism
(D) Capitalism
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Which of the following statements are CORRECT about theories on global justice?
(A) Thomas Pogge in his work ”The Law of Peoples” has addressed some of the issues of global justice.
(B) In his eight principles, John Rawls seeks respect for human rights and duty.
(C) Rawls distinguishes between domestic and global society.
(D) Thomas Pogge argues that there is a gap between global poor and rich due to the global institutional order.
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