Enhance your exam preparation with International Relations MCQs, covering essential topics like global politics, diplomacy, international organizations, conflict resolution, and more. Perfect for CSS, FPSC, PPSC, SPSC, KKPSC, and BPSC exams.
A. political authority always reflects economic power.
B. only people with hereditary titles can exercise authority.
C. whatever its origin, authority is necessary because people need to be led and protected.
D. authority is damaging because it implies social deference.
A. on the voluntary support of all of their citizens.
B. entirely on brute force.
C. entirely on brainwashing techniques.
D. on a mixture of power and authority, with more of the former than the latter.
A. John Locke
B. Jeremy Bentham
C. Jeremy Clarkson
D. Friedrich von Hayek
A. Hobbes had a more pessimistic view of human nature and much more skeptical religious ideas.
B. Hobbes advocated heavy state intervention in the economy
C. Locke was tall and handsome, while Hobbes was nasty, brutish and short.
D. all of the above.
A. social networking theory.
B. social conscience theory.
C. social contract theory.
D. socialist contract theory.
A. interference with the free market is counterproductive.
B. politicians have a tendency to bribe voters with generous tax-funded benefits.
C. bureaucrats are self-interested like everyone else.
D. all of the above are true.
A. pluralism would be perfectly possible if ordinary people would put forward their views more forcefully.
B. elite rule in some form is very difficult to avoid.
C. the richest people ought to be in power at all times.
D. Marxists always offer unquestioning support to inefficient dictatorships.
A. an ‘Iron Pyramid of Polyarchy’.
B. ‘The Man in the Iron Mask’.
C. the danger of having ‘too many irons in the fire’.
D. an ‘Iron Law of Oligarchy’.
A. the influence of any organized group on government decisions always ends in disaster.
B. the theory is naïve, because some groups are much more influential than others.
C. it fosters existing divisions within society.
D. it makes people think that all viewpoints are equally valid.
A. Wright Mills.
B. Roald Dahl.
C. James Burnham
D. Robert Dahl.
