Political Approaches MCQs

By: Prof. Dr. Fazal Rehman | Last updated: May 21, 2025

1. : One of the following does not match:
(A) Foucault discursive formation
(B) Latour actant network
(C) Luhmann Marxist theory
(D) Bourdieu structuration

2. : The debate about the decline of political theory argues about the following:
(A) Present rather than past
(B) Remote rather than immediate
(C) Value-laden rather than value-free
(D) Subjectivity versus objectivity

3. : The debate on the decline of political theory was in vogue during:
(A) 1950s
(B) 1970s
(C) 1990s
(D) 2000s

4. : Description of ‘Ideology’ is:
(A) A belief system
(B) Civilization
(C) Theocracy
(D) None of the above

5. : One of the following wrote the book ‘Political Man’:
(A) Daniel Bell
(B) Galbraith
(C) Raymond Aron
(D) None of the above

6. : Aron wrote the following book:
(A) The Opium of the People
(B) The Opium of the Capitalists
(C) The Opium of the Intellectuals
(D) The Opium of the Theocrats

7. : One of the following matches correctly:
(A) Macpherson – Fascist Theory
(B) Titmuss – Welfare State
(C) Mills – Power Elite
(D) Marx – Capitalism

8. : One of the following is not the work of Fukuyama:
(A) Our Posthuman Future
(B) The Marxists
(C) The End of History and the Last Man
(D) America at the Crossroads

9. : Fukuyama relied on the following for his thesis on the end of history:
(A) Marx
(B) Popper
(C) Weber
(D) Hegel

10. : Skinner wrote a book named:
(A) Liberty on Liberalism
(B) Liberty before Liberalism
(C) Liberty after Liberalism
(D) Liberty against Liberalism

11. : One of the following statements is incorrect:
(A) History without political events is literature
(B) Political Science without ethics is vulgar
(C) Ethics without economics is meaningless
(D) Economics without markets is unproductive

12. : The following demonstrated the relationship between nature and politics:
(A) Utilitarians
(B) Physiocrats
(C) Idealists
(D) Anarchists

13. : One of the following does not match:
(A) Maitland: Politics is prime science
(B) Lowell: Politics is an observational science
(C) Buckle: Politics is the backward of all arts
(D) Bryce: Politics and meteorology are both sciences

14. : One of the following statements is incorrect:
(A) Political science is a science but not an art
(B) Political Science is a science as well as an art
(C) Political Science is a science which is a social science
(D) Political Science is the art, science, and philosophy of what is political

15. : One of the following teams belongs to libertarians:
(A) Hayek and Sandal
(B) Sandal and Waller
(C) Waller and Nasik
(D) Nasik and Friedman

16. : One of the following is a communitarian team:
(A) Macintyre and Rawls
(B) Rawls and Zworykin
(C) Zworykin and Taylor
(D) Taylor and Sandal

17. : One of the following constitutes a post-modern team:
(A) Heidegger and Lyotard
(B) Lyotard and Easton
(C) Easton and Berlin
(D) Berlin and Plamenatz