The capacity to shape government policies through political action is known as __________

Art argues that the intense ideological competition between the United States and the Soviet Union for most of the Cold War never turned into a direct war between the two primarily because of what factor?

a. the restraining effects of nuclear deterrence b. the rough parity in conventional armed forces c. the inability to know the reaction of satellite states d. the economic interconnectedness between the two powers e. the belief that more could be gained, both territorially and economically, from proxy wars rather than direct armed conflict

Many repeated samples of identical sizes obtained in the identical way from the same population form a:

A. Sampling distribution B. Data plot C. Census D. Confidence sample