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Sample Notes:
books:
1. Vincent Boudreau, Resisting Dictatorship: Repression and Protest in Southeast Asia (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), ch. 1.
book chapters:
2. Andrew C. Mertha, “Society in the State: China’s Nondemocratic Political Pluralization,” in Stanley Rosen and Peter Hays Gries, eds., State and Society in 21st Century China, 2nd ed. (London: Routledge, 2010), 69-84.
publications with three or more co-authors/co-editors:
3. Carolyn M. Warner, Ramazan Kılınç, Christopher W. Hale, Adam B. Cohen, and Kathryn A. Johnson, “Religion and Public Goods Provision: Experimental and Interview Evidence from Catholicism and Islam in Europe,” Comparative Politics, 47 (January 2015), 180-209.
journal articles:
4. Eva Bellin, “Reconsidering the Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Lessons from the Arab Spring,” Comparative Politics, 44 (January 2013), 127–49.
newspaper articles:
5. Andrew Higgins and Andrew Kramer, “Ukraine Leader Was Defeated Even before He Was Ousted,” The New York Times, Jan. 3, 2015.
immediately following:
6. Ibid., 139.
when references to other works intervene:
7. Bellin, 145.
when references intervene and more than one work by the same author is cited:
8. Bellin, 2012, 139-40.
Note on Gender Parity:
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