WBCS EXAMINATION - 2000
POLITICAL SCIENCE PAPER -I
Time Allowed : 3 Hours Full Marks .100
Group—A
Answer any three questions.
1. Write a note on Kautilya's theory of the State.
2. Examine the relationship between State and Society.
3. "Will, not force, is the basis of the State" (T.H.Green). -Discuss, in the light of this statement, the origin and nature of the State.
4. Discuss, critically, the pluralist view of sovereignty.
5. Analyse the different forms of dictatorship.
Group—B
Answer any two questions.
6. Trace the development of liberalism in England.
7. "....the theory of the communists may be summed up in a single sentence-abolition of private property" (Marx and Engels).
8. What, in your opinion, are the conditions upon which the success of democracy depends ?
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