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Ethnic Mobilization and Ethnic Violence. In Barry R. Weingast and Donald Wittman, eds., Oxford Handbook of Political Economy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).
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Electoral Accountability and the Control of Politicians: Selecting Good Types versus Sanctioning Poor Performance. In Bernard Manin, Adam Przeworski, and Susan Stokes, eds., Democracy, Accountability, and Representation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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Commitment Problems and the Spread of Ethnic Conflict. In David Lake and Donald Rothchild, eds., The International Spread of Ethnic Conflict: Fear, Diffusion, and Escalation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.
Deliberation as Discussion. In Jon Elster, ed., Deliberative Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Reprinted in Jostein Gripsrud, Hallvard Moe, Anders Molander and Graham Murdock, The Public Sphere} (Sage Publications, 2010).
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