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- ↑ "George Tsebelis". University of Michigan. Archived from the original on 14 December 2014. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
- ↑ "Tsebelis to join American Academy of Arts and Sciences | U-M LSA Political Science". lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 2016-12-20.
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