PH.D - Political Science - 2019
PH.D - Political Science - 2019
PH.D - Political Science - 2019
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2. This question paper consists of 70 objective type questions carrying 70
marks. Questions in Part A relate to Research Methodology and questions
in Part B relate to different areas of Political Science.
3'. There will be negative marking of 0.33 mark for every wrong answer of I
mark question.
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Part A
2. Match the following methods with their meanings and choose the correct answer:
List I List II
a. Rationalism 1. Knowledge based on interpretation _""_
: b. Empiricism 2. Knowledge based on scientifically verifiable laws
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c. Positivism 3. Reason rather than experience is the source of i
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~_ ~. Herm~neutic~.~; Knowledge is the sum of human experience .~
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A 3 4 I 2
B. 3 4 2 I
C. 2 4 3 I
D. 4 2 1 3
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9. Separation of 'Facts and Values' and 'Subject and Object' are the core concerns
of:
A. Positivism
B. Interpretivism
C. Normativism
D. Rationalism
10. Whieh of the following can best be methodologically associated with attempts to
co~sidcr Indian democracy as a case ofjalse exceptionalism?
A. Attempts to consider India not as an established democracy on a par with
western democracies despite prevalence of poverty in India
B. Attempts to consider India as a unique case which is incomparable with other
democratic states
C. Attempts to place India on a par with other democratic states in developing
societies
D. Attempts to fit the demol:ratic experienl:e ofIndia within the global
theorizations on democracy
II. Controlled comparisons of subnational policy outcomes are made when the policy
under study is:
A. Spread in subnational units across national states with disparate political
regimes
B. Spread across subnational units within the same national political regime
C. Concerned with a subnational unit within the same national political regime
D. All of the above
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15. When you formulate a hypothesis for the sole purpose of rejecting it is called:
A. Alternative hypothesis
B. Null hypothesis
C. Testable hypothesis
D. Common sense hypothesis
16. What test would you use to find out association or independence of attributes?
A. t-test
B. F-test
C. Test based on correlation coefficient
D. Chi-square test
17. "Does social capital provide a means for advancing economic development,
promoting ethnic peace, and strengthening democratic governance?" (Anirudh
Krishna). Identify the independent variable in this research question.
A. Economic development
B. Ethnic peace
C. Democratic governance
D. Social capital
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19. Procedures that enable us to decide whether to reject or accept hypothesis are
called:
A. Sampling error
B. Correlation analysis
C. Tests of significance
D. Probability distributions
23. Specifying the meaning o[ a concept and stating the terms by which it will be
measured is known as:
A. Quantification
B. Conceptualization
C. Operationalization
D. Hypothesis formulation
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Read the passages given below and answer the questions that follow each of the
passages.
Passage 1:
European civilization seeks to create unity by keeping differences at bay, or by
destroying difference and bringing about homogeneity. On the other hand, Indian
civilization docs not deny differences, but, by recognizing them and demarcating the
relation of each group with all the others, tries to find a place for all in society. "That
the bringing together of the diverse into one, of making the stranger into one's own, is
not the same as turning everything into a homogeneous mass - do we, in this country,
have to shout this truth from the rooftops?"
The arrangement by which social unity was sought, cven as differences were also
recognized, is the Indian caste system. In the Swadeshi period, Tagore even claimed
that had the ancient makers of the siistra known of the Muslim and Christian
inhabitants of the country, they would not have restricted their rules to only the Hindu
castes but "would have defined the claims of all of these alien groups with the Hindu
samii) in such a way that there would not have been frequent conflicts between them."
In 1911-12, when he was thoroughly disillusioned by the politics of the Swadeshi
movement, Tagore was stiU writing, in the context of the history of caste conflicts in
India: "It is not in India's nature to scatter itself among the many. India seeks unity,
which is why it strives to contain diversity within the bounds of unity."
Later, in his Nationalism lectures, he says much the same thing about the caste system
in India, and reminds his American audience that unlike the European conquerors of
the Americas, the Aryans did not try to annihilate the non-Aryan peoples ofIndia but
instead sought to include them within society while recognizing their differences. Of
course, by 1917 Tagore was far more conscious and articulate than before about the
rigidity, and consequent injustices, of the caste system: " ... In her caste regulations,
India recognized differences, but not the mutability which is the law of life. In trying
to avoid collisions shc set up boundaries of immovable walls, thus giving \0 her
numerous races the negative benefit of peace and order but not the positive
opportunity of expansion and movement."
Yet Tagore insisted at the same time that "india tolerated difference ofraces from the
first, and that spirit of toleration has acted all through her history. Her caste system is
the outcome of this spirit oftoleration." He had no doubt"at this time that india's ideal
was "neither the colourless vagueness of cosmopolitanism, nor the fierce self-idolatry
of nation-worship," but social unity through recognition of the mutual differences of
races and communities.
[Partha Chatterjee, "The Indian Non-Nation: Imagining with Tagore"]
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Passage 2
First, social equality upholds justice or fairness. Socialists are reluctant to explain the
inequality of wealth in terms of innate differences of ability amongst individuals.
Socialists believe that just as capitalism has fostered competitive and selfish
behaviour, human inequality very largely reflects the unequal structure of society.
They do not hold the naive bcliefthat all people are born identical, possessing
precisely the same capacities and skills. An egalitarian society would not, for
instance, be one in which all students gain the same mark in their mathematics
examinations. Nevertheless, socialists believe that the most significant forms of
human inequality are a result of unequal treatment by society, rather than unequal
endowment by nature. Justice, from a socialist perspective, therefore demands that
people are treated equally, or at least more equally, by society in terms of their
rewards and material circumstances. Formal equality, in its legal and political Senses,
is clearly inadequate because it disregards the structural inequalities ofthe capitalist
system. Equality of opportunity, for its part:, legitimizes inequality by perpetuating the
myth of innate inequality.
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Second, social equality underpins community and cooperation. If people live in equal
social circumstances, they will be more likely to identify with one another and work
together for common benefit. Equal outcomes therefore strengthen social solidarity.
Social inequality, by the same token, leads to conflict and instability. This is most
clearly reflected in socialist theories about class contlict, or even 'class war'. It also
explains why socialists have criticized equality of opportunity for breeding a 'survival
of the fittest' mentality. R. H. Tawney, for example, dismissed it as a 'tadpole
philosophy' .
Third, socialist.. support social equality because they hold that need-satisfaction is the
basis for human fulfilment and self-realization. A 'need' is a necessity: it demands
satisfaction; it is not simply a frivolous wish or a passing fancy. Basic needs, such as
the need for food, water, shelter, companionship and so on, are fundamental to the
human condition, which means that, for socialists, their satisfaction is the very stuff of
freedom. Since all people have broadly similar needs, distributing wealth on the basis
of need-satisfaction has clearly egalitarian implications. Unlike liberals, socialists
therefore believe that freedom and equality are compatible principles. Nevertheless,
need-satisfaction can also have inegalitarian implications, as in the case of so-called
'special' needs, arising, for instance, from physical or mental disability.
[Andrew Heywood, Political Ideologies, 2012]
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Passage..l;.
So far I have been describing the damage done by persistent and endemic poverty as a
kind of violence on the poor. However, what justification is there for the use of the
term violence to describe the injuries caused by poverty? Further, why describe it as
structural violence? Even if we accept this term, there remains the question of why the
state should be linked to it. One way to further a careful and critical appreciation of
the term structural violence is to ask what kind of limitation it imposes on one's
analysis and imagination. I shall argue below that structural violence is both necessary
and problematic as an analytical category.
Whcn Max Weber defined the state as the institution that has "the monopoly of
violence within a given territory," he was not thinking about structural violence.
Rather, he employed violence in the usual sense of a direct act afforce that causes
physical harm to another person. 1 take the term structural violence from a germinal
article published by Johan GaJtung in the Journal of Peace Research in 1969.
Galtung's definition of violence takes one far afield from a narrow focus on the
somatic. He identifies violence to be any situation in which there is a difference
between the potential and actual somatic and mental achievements of people. Put
another way, violence occurs in any situation in which people are unable to achieve
their capacities or capabilities to their full potential and almost certainly if they are
unable to do so to the same extent as others.
The rcason such violence is considered to be structural is that it is impossible to
identify a single actor who commits the violence. Instead the violence is impersonal,
bu~lt into the structure of power. Far from being intended, violence in this sense does
not even have to be causcd by a particular agent. What one finds hcre is a classically
structuralist social theory wedded to consequentialism. Gaitung's interest is in
outcomes, not in processes. Whenever outcomes are unequal, violence is present. In
fact, in this way of thinking, any system with Icss than full equality displays evidence
of violence. The absence of violence is an ide;al state that is not likely to be achieved
in any given social formation. This interest in outcomes, however, has a broad scope,
not limited to questions of food, livelihood, and income. Structural violence is a
capacious term that encompasses not only the exclusion from entitlements such as
food and water, but also the exclusion of certain groups from particular fonns of
recognition (citizenship rights, equal rights before law, right to education,
representation and so on) ...
The difference between structural violence and direct violence goes even further. In
its ordinary meaning, violence requires a perpetrator who commits the violent act and
a victim who is injured by it. In the case of structural violence, although there is a
victim-someone who is injured by the inequities of social arrangements, it is hard to
identify a perpetrator. It is not a victimless crime but its opposite: a crime without a
criminal. This particular fact raises the question of what makes it different from the
destructiveness of natural disaster-the devastation that a hurricane or an earthquake
can cause in the lives of the poor. One does not identify natural disasters as violence
except perhaps when one speaks metaphorically of the violence of nature ...
Why should the ill effects of structural inequities be termed violence at all? Is there
not a danger of conflating two very different phenomena by the use of such a term? I
believe the analytical perils are very real. However, there is one compelling-perhaps
overwhelming reason to retain a focus on violence; it keeps one's attention on its
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impact on mortality. Structural violence results in the premature and untimely deaths
of people .... What distinguishes such violence from the destruction caused by acts of
nature is that these unfortunate outcomes result from the deliberate actions of social
agents. One must keep in mind that certain classes of people have a stake in
perpetuating a social order in which such extreme suffering is not only tolerated but
also taken as normal. All those who benefit from the status quo and do not wish to see
it changed then become complicit in this violence against the poor. In a country like
India., the perpetrators of violence include not only the elites but also the fast~growing
middle class whose increasing number and greater consumer power are being
celebrated by an aggressive global capitalism.
[Akhil Gupta, Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India,
2012]
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PartB
36. The idea that castes form a graded system of sovereignties is proposed by:
A. Jotirao Phule
B. Mahadev Govind Ranade
C. E.V. Ramasamy Naicker
D. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
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42. Who among the following thinkers makes a distinction between antagonistic and
non-antagonistic contradictions?
A. Frederick Engels
B. V.1. Lenin
C. Leon Trotsky
D. Mao Zedong
43. "Reason has always existed but not in a reasonable fann". Who says this?
A. Immanuel Kant
B. G.W.F. Hegel
C. Karl Marx
D. Antonio Gramsci
47. The first work by Hegel which discusses the master-slave dialectic is:
A. Phenomenology
B. Logic
c. Philosophy of Right
D. Lectures on the History of Philosophy
48. Which one of the following belongs to Max Weber's three-fold scheme of the
classification of political regimes
A. Legal-rational authority
B. Grass-roots authority
C. Use of violence
D. Divine sanction
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49. Which among the following, according to Almond and Powell, is an output
function of political systems?
A. Interest aggregation
B. Rule adjudication
C. Political socialization
D. Political communication
51. David Apter speaks of four stages of political modernisation. Identify the fourth
stage from the ones given below:
A. Stage of contact and control
8. Stage of Reaction
C. Stage of contradiction
D. Stage ofa New Generative Solution
54. 'System of States' and 'Society of States' differ on the question of:
A. The role ofleadership
B. Nonns and order
C. Significance of national boundaries
D. Principle of sovereignty
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56. The United States recently withdrew from the membership of:
A. United Nations
B. North Atlantic Treaty Organization
C. Trans Pacific Partnership
D. North America Free Trade Agreement
58. Consider the distinction between civil society and political society in India:
!. Civil society and political society are essentially the same albeit with a
different nomenclature
ll. While civil sodety is a democratic space where the educated middle
class negotiate their rights within constitutional norms and rules,
political society is an unruly space where the marginalized and poor
negotiate their rights by resorting to violent and extra-constitutional
means
iii. While the question ofrcdi"stribution is a paramount consideration in
political society, it is not the case in civil society
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59. In the literature on political economy of India's economic reforms, which of the
following best represents the idea ofa 'divided leviathan'?
A. The Indian state is a divided entity in terms of its form and substance
B. States arc divided in tenns of their economic policy orientation and pace of
refonns
C. States have divided loyalties and diverse ideological orientations
D. The states have become too powerful in the era of economic reforms
60. Consider the following statements about the 'regulating' nature of the Indian state:
i. The Presidency, Courts and the Election Commission are the key drivers of
the 'regulating' state
Ii. The transformation of India's economy from a 'command economy' to a
'federal market' economy facilitates the 'regulating' role of the Indian state
iiLThe Indian state sheds its hitherto interventionist role and regulates
competition between and across states for attracting capital and investment
Which of the statements given above are true?
A. 1, 11, III
B. !, !!
C. i, iii
D. Onlyii
61. Consider the following statements about Armed Forces Special Powers Act
(AFSPA):
1. The BP Jeevan Reddy Committee recommended its repeal and
replacement by Unlawful Activities Prevention Act
ll. It warrants onty ajunior commissioned officer to search, ransack, and
shoot to kill merely on the ground of suspicion
iii. Army in the line of duty enjoys full immunity under AFSP~
Which ofthe statements given above arc true?
A. i, ii, iii
B. !1, III
C. i, ii
D. I, !!1
62. According to Guy Peters, as a result of synthesis of the nature of political system
and typology of policies, the consociational democracy produces:
A. Regulatory Policies
B. Distributive Policies
C. Redistributive Policies
D. Self-Regulatory Policies
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63. When there is a conflict of interest between two groups representing development
for profit vs equal social distribution of resources, then which of the following
models provides conceptual framework to understand the phenomenon?
A. Interest group theory
B. Minimax mixed strategy
C. Punctuated equilibrium model
D. Advocacy Coalition Framework
65. Who among the following is credited with the Incrementalism model of decision-
making?
A. Amitai Etzioni
B. Chester Barnard
C. Charles I,indblom
D. John Dewey
66. Paul Appleby's statement that "all administration today is political since it must
be responsive to the public interest" challenges the principle ot:
A. Impersonality
13. Anonymity
C. Integrity
D. Neutrality
67. The process by which former subjects are recruited as active participants in
organizational and electoral activities for influencing political decision 'making is
referred to as:
A. Political Socialisation
B. Political Mobilisation
C. Political Communication
D. Political modernisation
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69. Who, among the following, has contributed to the study of culture and politics and
is known for his original ideas about how subaltern groups, especiaUy peasants in
developing countries, resist domination?
A. Barrington Moore
B. Eric Hobsbawm
C. James C. Scott
D. Ted Rohert Gurr
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