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I Year B.A. Examination, November 2011


POLITICAL SCIENCE (Paper 6)
Modern Political Theory
Time : 3 Hours

Max. Marks : 75

Instructions : 1) Question paper is divided into three Parts.


2) Each Part is of 25 marks.
3) Assume suitable data if necessary.
PART A
Answer any three questions (Question No. 1 is compulsory) :
1. Is it appropriate to describe politics as the study of power ? Give reasons.
2. Define the state. How has globalization, affected the nature of the modern the
nation state ?
3. Explain the Pluralist theory of sovereignty.
4. Critically explain the theories of citizenship with special, reference to the feminist
and the subaltern perspective.
5. Bentham dismissed natural rights as non-sense upon stilts. Critically explain
the statement.
PART B
Answer any three questions (Question No. 6 is compulsory)
6. Explain the liberal view on equality.
7. According to same political theories communism is beyond justice. Critically
dissect this observation.

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8. Describe the various stages, in the development of the Modern Nation State.
9. Critically evaluate Marshalls theory of citizenship.
10. Write short note on the following :
a) Marxist View of Polities
b) Human rights.
PART C
11. Fill in the blanks (Each question carries 2 marks) :
i) Political theory fall into _____________ broad discipline.
ii) According to the _____________ politics had its beginning in the class
society.
iii) According to _____________ power in the society belong to the
economically dominant class.
iv) A citizen is one who possesses rights which are denied to _____________
v) The legal theory of rights holds the belief that the rights are granted by the
_____________
12. Multiple Choice Question (Each question carries 2 marks) :
i) Nai Talim was based on truth and human _____________
a) behave

b) dignity

c) character

d) none of these

ii) After the Second World War there was decline in the power of
_____________
a) European Nations

b) Asian Nation

c) African Nation

d) All of these

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iii) _____________ gave an important place to rights and equality in his political
theory.
a) Laski

b) Seeley

c) Bentham

d) Austin

iv) Since the age of _____________ and Aristotle democracy has been criticized
on a number of grounds.
a) Plato

b) Austin

c) Gandhi

d) None of these

v) Kinship creates _____________


a) Society

b) State

c) Family

d) All of these

13. True or False (Each question carries 1 mark) :


i) Austin gives too much importance to force.
ii) Seeley say liberty is the opposite of over government.
iii) Bentham rejected the ideology of natural rights and social contract.
iv) The theory of natural rights had been popular during the 17-18th centuries.
v) The concept of welfare model of development took strong root in England.
_______________

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