Comparative Political Analysis – UGC NET – Practice Questions

Approaches, Colonialism and Decolonisation of Comparative Politics

1. Which approach was propagated by colonial regimes to popularise European liberal values in the colonies?

(a) Philosophical approach
(b) Historical approach
(c) Institutional approach
(d) Legal approach

2. Which was Bryce’s work?

(a) Public Opinion and Popular Government
(b) The American Commonwealth
(c) Government and Parties in Continental Europe
(d) Constitutional Government and Democracy

3. Which was Lowell’s work?

(a) Governments and parties in continental Europe
(b) The American Commonwealth
(c) Modern Democracies
(d) Constitutional Government and Democracy

4. Which was Herman Finer’s work?

(a) Constitutional Government and Democracy
(b) Theory and Practice of Modern Governments
(c) Modern Democracies
(d) The American Commonwealth

5. Borrowing concepts from Sociology and Anthropology, Almond has developed a methodology for comparative studies of

(a) Historical approach
(b) Philosophical approach
(c) Legal Approach
(d) Political cultures

6. For whom, political system is a system of roles which can be empirically observed and understood scientifically

(a) Almond
(b) Verba
(c) Finer
(d) Pye

7. The basis of Almond classification and analysis of the political systems is their

(a) structures and cultures
(b) economics
(c) economics and cultures
(d) economics and structures

8. Almond discovered three models of political systems, which reflect attitudes of individuals towards political activity, they are like

(a) Marxist types
(b) Communist types
(c) Weberian ideal-types
(d) Liberal types

9. Who found institutional participation of the elites much more relevant and calls them as ‘consociational democracy’?

(a) D Kavanagh
(b) Almond
(c) Arendt Lipzart
(d) Powell

10. Who finds the role of sub-political cultures as more important?

(a) Arendt Lipzart
(b) D Kavanagh
(c) Almond
(d) Pateman

11. Who believes that economics is the base of society and political system?

(a) Marxists
(b) Pluralist
(c) Historical
(d) Institutional

12. According to the Marxist approach, comparative politics also has to be understood in terms of

(a) Legal approach
(b) Institutional approach
(c) Class domination over political structures
(d) Class domination over social culture

13. In order to investigate the origins and characteristics of present day states, it is necessary to consider their

(a) political history
(b) present views
(c) Pluralist theory
(d) Institutional theory

14. New institutionalism also termed as

(a) Neo-institutionalism
(b) Institutional Approach
(c) Institutional theory
(d) Legal approach

15. From the 1930s through the 1950s traditionalist scholars, dominated political science as a discipline, especially in the

(a) Vatican City
(b) United States
(c) United Kingdom
(d) Vietnam

16. Two of the leading founders of the new institutionalism were

(a) James G March and Johan P Olsen
(b) Plato and Brye
(c) Aristotle and Lowell
(d) Finer and Ostrogorski

17. The piece published by James G March and Johan P Olsen

(a) The New Institutionalism: Organisation Factors in Political Life.
(b) Rediscovering Institutionalism: The Organisational Basis of Politics.
(c) Democratic Governance.
(d) The American Commonwealth.

18. At least how many branches of new institutionalism are there

(a) three
(b) two
(c) four
(d) five

19. Who said that “the scientific approach is unavoidably comparative”?

(a) Johan P Olsen
(b) James G March
(c) Harold Lasswel
(d) Gabriel Almond

20. In comparative method, distinction should be made between

(a) approach and method
(b) method and technique
(c) technique and approach
(d) idea and character

21. The comparative method is understood briefly when compared in how many terms?

(a) 4
(b) 3
(c) 2
(d) 1

22. Which method is an approximation of the experimental method as it uses same logic?

(a) Traditional method
(b) Legal method
(c) Case study method
(d) Statistical method

23. Colonialism as a system started emerging, from which century?

(a) 20th century
(b) 19th century
(c) 17th century
(d) 16th century

24. The Greeks had established colonies in which era?

(a) Pre-christ era
(b) Regnal era
(c) Calender era
(d) Geological era

25. The famous Angkor Vat temple is in

(a) India
(b) Pakistan
(c) Cambodia
(d) Bali

26. Who used the term “the emergence of a world system”?

(a) Watterstein
(b) Plato
(c) Aristotle
(d) Finer

27. Who used the term “the process of the development of underdevelopment”?

(a) Almond
(b) Lasswell
(c) Wallerstein
(d) Gunder Frank

28. How many forms of colonialism, is being focused?

(a) 3
(b) 2
(c) 4
(d) 1

29. The permanent settlement created by Cornwallis in

(a) Chennai
(b) Delhi
(c) Bengal
(d) Pakistan

30. The Zamindars had to pay to government fixed amount, till late in the

(a) 19th century
(b) 18th century
(c) 16th century
(d) 17th century

31. Ryotwari of Elphinstone took place in which presidency?

(a) Bengal presidency
(b) Delhi presidency
(c) Rajasthan presidency
(d) Bombay presidency

32. ‘Munro’ took place in presidency.

(a) Madras presidency
(b) Bengal presidency
(c) Delhi presidency
(d) Bombay presidency