Democratic politics Question Bank first four chapters

Democratic Politics  Question Bank  - 2018 – 19
S.No	1.Power Sharing                                           R.Ayyappan
1.	Why Dutch speaking people resented with French speaking community in Belgium?
2.	List out the series of majoritarian measures adopted by Srilanka government to establish Sinhala supremacy
3.	Why Tamil speaking people raised the demand of separate Tamil Ealam in the politics of Sri lanka?
4.	What was the arrangement workout by the Belgium leaders to resolve the problem?
5.	In Belgium the leaders has realized that the unity of the is possible only by respecting the feelings and interest of different communities and regions.  Such realization resulted in mutually acceptable arrangement for power sharing. – justify the statement.
6.	What is the linguistic composition of Belgium.
7.	How do conflict between Dutch and French was resolved?
8.	How accommodation was made in Belgium
9.	Why power sharing desirable in democracy?
10.	What are the different forms of power sharing?
12.	Define Civil war
13.	Define Majoritarianism
14.	Define Ethnic
	2.Federalism
15.	What is  federalism?
16.	Differentiate Unitary and Federal government
17.	List out the key features of federalism
18.	What is the Duel objectives of Federalism?
19.	Differentiate coming together and holding together federations.
20.	Define Jurisdiction
21.	What makes India federal country?
22.	What is Residuary subject? Which government has the power to legislate residuary subjects?
23.	Write in detail about the linguistic state policy of India.
24.	Write in detail about the language policy of India.
25.	Write in detail about the centre – state government relationships.
26.	What is decentralization ? and what is the need of decentralization in India?
27.	How 1992 constitutional amendment strengthen the decentralization process in India?
28.	Illustrate the structure of local government.
29.	How federations contrasted with unitary government?
30.	“The balance of power between the central and the state government depends mainly on historical context in which the federations are formed. Classify the federations on the basis of formation.” Justify the statement.
31.	Most of the holding together federations do not give equal powers to its constituent units. – comment the statement.
32.	It is easy to change to power sharing arrangement in India – comment the statement.
33.	How judiciary play an important role in federations.
34.	“The flexibility shown by Indian leaders helped our country to avoid the kind of situation that Srilanka finds itself it.” Do you accept the statement? Support your views.
35.	The constitutional arrangement for sharing will work out in reality depends to a large extent on how the ruling parties and leaders follow these arrangement.- comment the statement
36.	Write about the era of coalition government.
37.	Illustrate the local government structure of India.
38.	How many representatives are there in local government of India?
	3.Democracy and Diversity
39.	Elaborate the Mexico Olympics.
40.	Classify the social differences on the basis of Origin.
41.	Differentiate Overlapping and Cross – cutting social differences.
42.	Write about the ranges of outcomes of social divisions in politics.
43.	What are the factors influencing the outcomes representing social divisions in politics?
44.	Write about the Civil Rights movement of USA
45.	Write about the the Black Power movement of USA
46.	What is Homogeneous society?
47.	Define Migrant.
48.	“Every social difference does not lead to social division. Social differences divide similar people from one another, but they also unite the very different people.” Support the statement.
49.	Most of the countries of the world are becoming multi cultural. – Comment the statement
50.	“Every expression of social division in politics does not lead to disintegration of country”  Support the statement .
	4.Gender, Religion and Caste
51.	Describe the Role of women in Indian society.
52.	Sexual division of labour or how works are divided on the basis of sex in Indian society?
53.	What are feminist organizations? What is there role in promoting the women?
54.	Write about the status of women in education in India.
55.	What is the status of women in work places? What are issues they face in work places?
56.	Child Sex Ratio is decreasing in India – Comment the statement.
57.	Define Patriarchy
58.	What is the view of Gandhi towards the religion and politics?
59.	How do Human Rights movements view religion?
60.	Why Women’s movements oppose the religion?
61.	Define communalism. And what is the basic idea of communalism?
62.	What are family laws?
63.	India is a secular state – Do you accept with this statement? Support your statement.
64.	What are caste inequalities? How it entered into the Indian society?
65.	List the factors that reduced the effects of caste in Indian society.
66.	How can we say that still caste persist in India?
67.	Caste alone do not decide the success of politics – justify the statement.
68.	“Focus on caste in politics can sometimes give an impression that elections are all about caste and nothing else. That is far from the truth.” – Prove the statement
69.	Define Urbanisation.
70.	What is Occupation mobility?
71.	What do you understand by caste hierarchy?