Political Science (I) MCQs 2025

Public administration is the study of the:
A. Government affairs
B. Social movements
C. Both (A) & (B)
D. None of these

Which Muslim scholar gave the cyclical theory of ‘Rise and Fall of Sovereign Power’ (state)?
A. Ibn-e-Khaldun
B. Shah Waliullah
C. Ibn-e-Taymiyyah
D. None of these

Public Policy is generally consisting of the set of _________ adopted by a government.
A. Actions
B. Regimes
C. Networks
D. None of these

According to which Muslim thinker, state is a moral institution to attain good for ‘Millah’ (nation/people)?
A. Al-Mawardi
B. Nizam-ul-Mulk Tusi
C. Jamal-ud-din Afghani
D. None of these

In parliamentary democracy, president is a/an _________ sovereign.
A. Actual
B. Titular
C. De-facto
D. None of these

Who collected all the ordinances relating to public law and arranged them in one volume?
A. Al-Farabi
B. Imam Ghazali
C. Al-Mawardi
D. None of these

Utilitarian thinkers believed in:
A. Expanding sphere of state action
B. Limiting sphere of state action
C. Totalitarianism
D. None of these

The book ‘The Open Society and Its Enemies’ is written by:
A. Karl Popper
B. Kierkegaard
C. John Rawls
D. None of these

Separation of power is the salient feature of ________ system.
A. Parliamentary
B. Presidential
C. Unitary
D. None of these

Who believes in the use of violence in armed insurrections as a means to capture state power?
A. Karl Marx
B. Mao Zedong
C. Immanuel Kant
D. None of these