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TOPIC INFO – CUET PG (Political Science)
SUB-TOPIC INFO – Indian Government and Policies
CONTENT TYPE – Short Notes
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1. INTRODUCTION
2. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF POLITICAL REGIMES
3. FUNCTIONING OF A POLITICAL REGIME
3.1. The Organisation of Command
3.2. The Formal Organs of Command
3.3. The Governing Elite
4. TYPES OF POLITICAL REGIMES
4.1. Democratic Regimes
4.2. Totalitarian Regimes
4.3. Authoritarian Regimes
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Types of Regimes
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PRACTICE QUESTIONS OF THIS TOPIC
1. The term ‘regime’ in political science refers to:
A) The entire political system
B) Only the ruling party
C) Specific institutional arrangements and structured political relationships
D) The geographic boundaries of a state
2. According to Roy Macridis, a political regime embodies:
A) The military and police forces only
B) Economic institutions exclusively
C) Rules, procedures, and understandings that formulate the relationship between governors and governed
D) Cultural and religious practices only
3. A key difference between ‘system’ and ‘regime’ is that:
A) System is static, regime is dynamic
B) Regime only exists in democracies
C) System implies functions and concepts, while regime refers to specific institutional arrangements
D) Regime refers to economic institutions alone
4. Legislative, party, and bureaucratic institutions:
A) Have identical roles in every regime
B) Are irrelevant for regime analysis
C) Perform different roles in different regimes
D) Only exist in democratic regimes
5. Political regimes are influenced by:
A) Only historical factors
B) Only international pressures
C) Historical, cultural, economic, social, and international factors
D) Random chance
