If a president wants to appoint a particularly controversial nominee to office without Senate confirmation, he or she may choose to use the __________ while Congress is on a formal break

When people are asked about their political ideology, most Americans will identify their party as which of the following?

a. Republican b. Democrat c. Independent d. Libertarian e. Preferred not to answer

According to the liberal perspective, the longer term stationing of U.S. and Western troops in Saudi Arabia to protect the oil fields as an unintended consequence of the first Persian Gulf War is an example of ________.

a. interdependence b. path dependence c. spillover d. process tracing