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Boatwright Memorial Library

Chicago Manual of Style, 17 ed.

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Book

Reference page entry

Mann, Michael. 2005. The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

In-text citation

Mann (2005) argues that democratic regimes…

Ethnic groups “share a common culture and common descent” (Mann 2005, 10). 

 

Book Chapter

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McNeill, Terry. 1983. "Russia in 1917: Revolution or Counter-Revolution?" In Revolutionary Theory and Political Reality, edited by Noel O'Sullivan, 101-117. New York: St. Martin's Press. 

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“On closer inspection,” McNeill (1983) suggests, “it can be seen that many of the supposed advantages of the Soviet model are illusory” (116). 

McNeill (1983) insists…

 

Scholarly Journal Article

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Olson, Mancur. 1993. “Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development.” American Political Science Review 87, no. 3: 567-576. https://doi.org/10.2307/2938736.

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“In an autocracy, the source of order and other public goods and likewise the source of the social progress that these public goods man possible is the encompassing interest of the autocrat (Olson 1993, 574).

Olson (1993) reaffirms the capacity of “small groups [to] organize for collective action” (567). 

 

Online News Article

Reference page entry

Balz, Dan and Jon Cohen. 2012. “Big Gulf between the parties, divisions within,” Washington Post, August 18, 2012. http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/big-gulf-between-parties-divisions-within/2012/08/18/f5ee15d4-e31a-11e1-ae7f-d2a13e249eb2_story.html.

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“The study…underscores that the gulf between Republicans and Democrats has never been wider” (Balz and Cohen 2012).

Balz and Cohen (2012) argue that this degree of partisan polarization…