UGC NET/JRF EXAM, Dec. 2020/June-2021 POLITICAL SCIENCE (Paper-II) (SHIFT-I)

Total Questions: 100

31. Which of the following does NOT characterise electoral politics in India today?

Correct Answer: (c) Stabilization of the Congress dominance system
Solution:

The multi-party system in practiced in a number of nations, there are more than two political parties that can form a coalition to establish a government in the absence of a majority or a single big victor.

32. Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan was launched on

Correct Answer: (a) 12th May 2020
Solution:

The Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan was launched by PM on 12th may 2020. The idea is a catchall for the Modi administrations aspirations for India to participate more actively in the global economy and to improve its efficiency, competitiveness and resilience.

33. Who coined the famoous acronym "POSDCORB"?

Correct Answer: (c) Gulick and Urwick
Solution:

POSDCORB is an acronym for Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Directing, Coordinating, Reporting, and Budgeting. It was created in 1937 by members of President Roosevelt's administrative committee, Luther Gulick and Lyndall Urwick.

34. Who wrote Reinventing Government (1992)?

Correct Answer: (c) Osborne and Gacbler
Solution:

Osborne and Gaebler wrote Reinventing Government in 1992. In this book, they combine a largely new idea of Row Government ought to operate with hundreds of instance of these projects.

35. Who is called the father of 'Comparative Public Administration'?

Correct Answer: (b) Fred Riggs
Solution:

Comparative Public Administration is the search for patterns and regularities in administrative activity and behaviour. Fred Riggs is called the father of 'Comparative Public Administration. It reevaluates strategies for enhancing public administration in developing nations.

36. Which of the following statements is incorrect about the "Human Relations Theory"?

Correct Answer: (c) Informal elements do not play an important role in the overall organizational output
Solution:

A social system is an organization. There are incentives and reasons that are not financial employees are social creatures. Workers build informal organizations and these organizations establish production standards. Thus informal elements do not play an important role in the overall organizational output is incorrect about the "Human Relations Theory".

37. In 1989, the World Bank conceptualised "Governance" in the context of which of the following nations?

Correct Answer: (c) Sub-Saharan Africa
Solution:

The World Bank conceptualised Governance in the context of Sub-Saharan Africa. A change away from a hierarchical bureaucracy to wand a greater use of markets, quasi-markets and networks, particularly in the provision of public services.

38. Who said that "Public Administration is the accomplishment of politically determined objectives"?

Correct Answer: (a) Woodrow Wilson
Solution:

Woodrow Wilson defines "Public Administration is the accomplishment of politically determined objectives". Wilson claimed that while the administration is the most visible aspect of government.

39. "Budget is a document containing a preliminary approval plan of public revenue and expenditure".Whose definition is this?

Correct Answer: (c) Reno Storm
Solution:

Reno Storm :-
The government's income, or revenue and expenditures are included in detail in the budget. A budget is a document that includes projections of government income and expenses for a certain fiscal year.

40. Who has been the most prominent among the Chicago school economists?

Correct Answer: (b) Milton Friedman
Solution:

The two most eminent academics from the Chicago school are regarded as being Milton Friedman and George Stigler the University of Chicago economics Department, regarded as one of the toр economics department in the world has been received 13 Nobel Prizes as of 2018.