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Part I - People

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2021

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Frances McCall Rosenbluth  and
Margaret Weir
Frances McCall Rosenbluth
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Yale University, Connecticut
Margaret Weir
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Brown University, Rhode Island
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The New Politics of Insecurity
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