Mock Test 1 - Topic - Political Theory
1. Answer in approximately 150 words each - 10X5=50
a) One Dimensional Man
b) Equality of resources
c) Fact-Value dichotomy in political science
d) Location of Hegemony
e) Knowledge is Power
2. a) Do you agree that pluralist democracies have posed a great threat to the fabric of nation-state ? Substantiate 25 Marks
b) Explain how Mill tries to subsume justice under the concept of utility. 25 Marks
3. a) Do you agree that the Behavioural approach appeared in order to counter the Marxist approach ? 25 Marks
b) Examine the relation between Justice, Equality and Liberty. 25 Marks
4. a) What are the challenges Political theory faces in the present times. Suggest remedies to overcome it. 25 Marks
b) "The true source of right is duty" - Gandhi. Comment 25 Marks
5. Answer in approximately 150 words each - 10X5=50
a) "Women have always been man's dependent, if not his slave, the two sexes have never shared the world in equality" - Simone de Beauvoir.
b) "Power flows through out the system like blood in the capillaries of our body" - Foucalt
c) Relative autonomy of state
d) Paternal despotism of Mill
e) Ideologies as regimes of truth.
