TSUJ: Second Semester Past Question POS202~POS206~POS204 (2015/2016)


Taraba State University End of Second Semester Examination 2015/2016 Past Questions for Department of Political Science and International Relations. 200Level.

Course code: POS 202. Course Title: Introduction to Political Analysis.
Instruction: Answer question ONE and any other three.

1a. Define the concept of Political Analysis.
1b. Identify and explain the problems of Political Analysis.

2. Discuss the basic intellectual requirements of behaviouralism in Political Analysis.

3. Using group theory discuss the manifest characters of group dynamics in the recent Wukari crisis.

4. Identify and explain the practical procedures in data presentation and analysis of Political Aanalysis.

5. Using game theory discuss the political dynaics in the olitical gaing of the PDP and APC in the 2015 gubernatorial election in Taraba State.

6. Discuss the elite theory and relates its fundamentals to any political phenmenon that best suit political analysis.

Course code: POS 206. Course Title: Introduction To Comparative Politics.
Instruction: Answer Any four questin.

1a. Micheal Curtis (1968) conception of comparative politics was cnsidered more realistic, Justify.
1b. Enumerate any six reasons why we study comparative politics.

2. Compare and contrast the similarities annd differences between Nigeria and Indian political systems.

3. Why does a paradigm shift in the evolution of comparative politics was accepted by comparativists? Discuss the above asertation in relation to semantic problem between comparative government and comparative politics.

4. Aristole (384-322 BC) was considered the first thinker and student of comparative politics. Discuss vividly his contributions to the sub-field of comparative politics.

5. Identify and briefly explain any five problems faced by comparativists in the study of comparative politics.

6. Critically distinguish between traditional and modern approaches to the study of comparative poitics.

Course code: POS 204. Course Title: Foundation of Political Economy.
Instruction: Answer question ONE and any other three.

1. With the aid of a diagram discuss Adam Smiths contribution to political economy in relation to his theory of division of labour and the circle of poverty.

2. Economic need is man most fundamental need, unless man is able to meet his need he cannot exist in the first pllace nor can he worship or do politics. Discuss this in relation to Karl Marxs explanation of base and superstructure.

3. Identify and discuss the laws of dialectical materialism according to Karl Marx relating them to the Nigeria political economy situation.

4. All societies according to WW Rostow must pass through five stages of growth before they are conssidered developed. Identify and discuss the stages.

5a. What is surplus value?
5b. Using the formular for calculating surplus value calculate the percentge of excess value of a worker whose output produce N3000000 for an organisation within seven month and earned N700,000.

6a. What is political economy?
6b. Succinctly establish the difference between the classical and Marxs political economy.

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