What is the system called when government officials are chosen according to their educational qualities, performance on examinations, and work experience?

Howell and his colleagues supplemented their analysis of presidential appropriations power by examining __________ during periods of both war and peace

A)congressional voting records on a variety of policies B) Supreme Court decisions on objections to presidential policies C)public opinion polls on the president's policies D)the content of editorial columns about the president

What event in 1956 led to the Soviet­Chinese "split," causing China to pursue its own path to socialism?

a. The Cuban Missile Crisis b. The Korean War c. Reagan's speech in Berlin telling the Soviets to tear down the Berlin Wall d. The assassination of Mao Zedong by Soviet agents e. Khrushchev's "secret speech" about multiple "roads to socialism"