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Hicken, Allen, and Noah L Nathan. “Clientelism’s Red Herrings: Dead Ends and New Directions in the Study of Nonprogrammatic Politics.” Annual Review of Political Science 23, no. 1 (2020): 277–94.

Ansolabehere, Stephen D, and Ariel White. “Policy, Politics, and Public Attitudes Toward the Supreme Court.” American Politics Research 48, no. 3 (2020): 365–76.

Doner, Richard, and Ben Ross Schneider. “Technical Education in the Middle Income Trap: Building Coalitions for Skill Formation.” The Journal of Development Studies 56, no. 4 (2020): 680–97.

Huang, Yasheng, Zhiyong Niu, and Clair Yang. “Testing Firm-Level Data Quality in China against Benford’s Law.” Economics Letters 192 (2020).

Gholz, Eugene, and Harvey M Sapolsky. "The many lines of defense: The political economy of US defense acquisition." Journal of Global Security Studies 6, no. 1 (2021).

Lieberman, Evan. “Research Cycles.” Chapter. In The Production of Knowledge: Enhancing Progress in Social Science, edited by Colin Elman, John Gerring, and James Mahoney, 42–70. Strategies for Social Inquiry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

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Regime Threats and State Solutions: Bureaucratic Loyalty and Embeddedness in Kenya

Cambridge University Press

Regime Threats and State Solutions: Bureaucratic Loyalty and Embeddedness in Kenya

Freemark, Yonah, Justin Steil, and Kathleen Thelen. “Varieties of Urbanism: A Comparative View of Inequality and the Dual Dimensions of Metropolitan Fragmentation.” Politics & Society 48, no. 2 (2020): 235–74.

Puente, Ignacio, and Ben Ross Schneider. 2020. “Business and Development: How Organization, Ownership and Networks Matter.” Review of International Political Economy 27 (6): 1354–77.

Narang, Vipin, and Ankit Panda. "North Korea: Risks of Escalation." In Survival: Global Politics and Strategy (February-March 2020): Deterring North Korea, pp. 47-53. Routledge, 2023.