New publications

Chun-hao Chang, ‘ The Competition/Cooperation Relationship In Executive Power Operating Of Semi-Presidentialism’, International Journal Of Social Sciences And Humanity Studies, Vol 3, No 2, 2011, available at: http://www.sobiad.org/eJOURNALS/journal_IJSS/2011.htm

Robertus Robet, ‘Pengalaman Sistem Semi Presidensialisme Prancis: Sebuah Pertimbangan Untuk Indonesia’, Law Review Volume XII No. 3 – Maret 2013, available at: http://bit.ly/169yJAN

Timothy J. Colton, ‘Political leadership after communism’, Demokratizatsiya, vol. 20, no. 2, 2012, pp. 65-70.

Erica Marat, ‘Kyrgyzstan: A parliamentary system based on inter-elite consensus’, Demokratizatsiya, vol. 20, no. 4, 2012, pp. 325-344.

Víctor Alarcón Olguín, ‘Situación y tendencias metodológicas para el estudio del presidencialismo en América Latina y México’, available at: http://campus.usal.es/~acpa/sites/default/files/semin_invest_victor_alarcon_abr-2013.pdf

André Freire and José Santana Pereira, ‘Portugal, 2011: the victory of the neoliberal right, the defeat of the left’, Portuguese Journal of Social Science, vol. 11, no. 2, 2013.

Mazen Hassan, ‘Elections of the People’s Assembly, Egypt 2011/12′, in Electoral Studies vol. 32, no. 2, 2013, pp. 370-374.

William A. Clark, ‘The 2012 presidential election in Russia: Putin returns’, in Electoral Studies vol. 32, no. 2, 2013, pp. 374-377.

Andrew Konitzer, ‘The parliamentary elections in Serbia, May 2012′, in Electoral Studies vol. 32, no. 2, 2013, pp. 380-385.

 

New publications

Robert Elgie, review of Margit Tavits, Presidents in Parliamentary Systems: Do Direct Elections Matter? in Perspectives on Politics, March 2012, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 207-209.

Claudia Gilia, ‘Is Romania Heading Towards a Presidential Republic?’, Acta Universitatis Danubius. Juridica, vol. 9, no. 1/2013, pp. 89-98. Available at: http://journals.univ-danubius.ro/index.php/juridica

Camelia Tomescu and Mihaela Codrina Levai, ‘The Principle Of Equilibrium And Separation Of Powers Under The Romanian Constitution’, The USV Annals of Economics and Public Administration, Volume 12, Issue 1(15), 2012, available at: http://seap.usv.ro/annals/ojs/index.php/annals/article/viewArticle/483

Anita Sengupta, ‘Colour Revolutions and Constitutionalism. The Case of Kyrgyzstan’, in Pınar Akçalı and Cennet Engin-Demir (eds.), Politics, Identity and Education in Central Asia. Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan, London: Routledge, 2013, pp. 52-68.

Seçil Öraz, ‘The Impact of Askar Akaev’s Political Leadership in the Process of Democratization in Kyrgyzstan’, in Pınar Akçalı and Cennet Engin-Demir (eds.), Politics, Identity and Education in Central Asia. Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan, London: Routledge, 2013, pp. 33-51.

Ol’ga V. Kryshtanovskaia
, ‘Formats of Russian State Power’, Russian Politics and Law, vol. 50, no. 3, May–June 2012, pp. 7–17.

Dieter Nohlen, ‘Gobernabilidad y reformas institucionales en México. Perspectivas comparadas’, in Quid Juris. Available at: http://www.techihuahua.org.mx/attachments/178_3-3.pdf

Jonathan Goodhand, ‘Sri Lanka in 2012: Securing the State, Enforcing the “Peace”’, Asian Survey, Vol. 53, No. 1, February 2013, pp. 64-72.

Michael Leach, ‘Timor-Leste in 2012: Beyond International Statebuilding?’, Asian Survey, Vol. 53, No. 1, February 2013, pp. 156-161.

Ming-Tong Chen, ‘Taiwan in 2012: Curse of the Second-Term President’, Asian Survey, Vol. 53, No. 1, February 2013, pp. 206-213.

Gordon M. Hahn, ‘Russia in 2012: From “Thaw” and “Reset” to “Freeze President’, Asian Survey, Vol. 53, No. 1, February 2013, pp. 214-223.

Raymond Kuhn, ‘The French Presidential And Parliamentary Elections, 2012′, Representation, 2013, Vol. 49, No. 1, 97–114

Tim Haughton and Alenka Krasovec, ‘The 2011 parliamentary elections in Slovenia’, Electoral Studies, 32:1, 2013, 201-203.

New publications

Philipp Köker, Presidential Activism in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE): A statistical analysis of the use of presidential vetoes in the CEE EU member states, 1990-2010, available at: http://www.psa.ac.uk/2013/UploadedPaperPDFs/52_30.pdf

Jae-Jae Spoon and Karleen Jones West, ‘Alone or together? How institutions affect party entry in presidential elections in Europe and South America’, Party Politics, published online 18 February 2013

David J. Samuels & Matthew S. Shugart, ‘Party “capacity” in new democracies: how executive format affects the recruitment of presidents and prime ministers’, Democratization, DOI:10.1080/13510347.2012.757695

Dag Anckar, ‘Traces Of Westminster? Government Style In Former African And Asian British Colonies’, in Smita Srivastava and Somesh Srivastava (eds.), Governance in Afro Asian Countries: Challenges and Approaches, available at: http://seersbooksonline.com/books/ebook32.pdf

Asem Khalil, ‘ Beyond the written constitution: Constitutional crisis of, and the institutional deadlock in, the Palestinian political system as entrenched in the basic law’, International Journal of Constitutional Law, (2013), Vol. 11 No. 1, 34–73.

John Gaffney, ‘Presidents Behaving Badly: Poor Leadership and Bad Governance in France’, in Ludger Helms (ed.), Poor Leadership And Bad Governance: Reassessing Presidents and Prime Ministers in North America, Europe and Japan, Edward Elgar, 2012.

Richard Sakwa, ‘Leadership, Governance and Statecraft in Russia’, in Ludger Helms (ed.), Poor Leadership And Bad Governance: Reassessing Presidents and Prime Ministers in North America, Europe and Japan, Edward Elgar, 2012.

Sten Hagberg and Gabriella Körling, Socio-political Turmoil in Mali: The Public Debate Following the Coup d’État on 22 March 2012, Africa Spectrum, 2-3/2012, pp. 111-125, available at: http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/afsp/article/viewFile/553/551

Florent Gougou and Simon Labouret, ‘Revisiting data on the 2012 French legislative elections: Political supply, party competition and territorial divisions’, French Politics, vol. 11, no. 1, 2013, pp. 73-97.

New publications

Selena Grimaldi, I Presidenti nelle forme di governo: Tra Costituzione, partiti e carisma, Carocci editore, 2012.

Claudia Gilia, ‘The Role of The President in Semi-Presidenatial (sic) Republics In Center (sic) and Eastern Europe’, Revue européenne du Droit social, Vol. XVIII, Issue 1, 2013, available at: http://www.revueeuropeenne-du-droitsocial.ro/fr/revue.php

John F. Copper, The KMT Returns to Power Elections in Taiwan, 2008-2012, Lexington Books, 2012.

Shahjahan Bhuiyan, ‘Political Leadership and its Role in Achieving Good Governance in Kazakhstan’, International Journal of Public Administration, 35:6, 2012, pp. 379-388.

Andrew Wilson, Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship, New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 2011.

Grigorii V. Golosov, ‘ The 2012 Political Reform in Russia: The Interplay of Liberalizing Concessions and Authoritarian Corrections’, Problems of Post-Communism, vol. 59, no. 6, November–December 2012, pp. 3–14.

Marcel van Herpen, Putinism: The Slow Rise of a Radical Right Regime in Russia, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

New Publications

Thomas Sedelius and Olga Mashtaler, ‘Two decades of semi-presidentialism: issues of intra-executive conflict in Central and Eastern Europe 1991–2011′, East European Politics, online first.

Gerhard Seibert, São Tomé and Príncipe: Political Instability Continues, available at: http://www.ipris.org/?menu=6&page=52

Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr. and Alexi Gugushvili, ‘A New Chance for Georgian Democracy’, Journal of Democracy, Volume 24, Number 1, 2013, pp. 116-127.

Lilia Shevtsova, ‘Russia under Putin: Titanic looking for its iceberg?’, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Volume 45, Issues 3–4, September–December 2012, Pages 209–216.

Мовчан Уляна Ігорівна, ‘ПРЕЗИДЕНТ, ПАРТІЙНА СИСТЕМА ТА УРЯД: ПОТЕНЦІЙНІ КОНФЛІКТИ ТА ШЛЯХИ ЇХ ПОДОЛАННЯ’, Стратегічні пріоритети, No 4 (25), 2012, available at: http://www.niss.gov.ua/public/File/Str_prioritetu/SP_4_2012.pdf#page=53

European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook, December 2012, Volume 51, Issue 1, Pages 1–343, Government and election details for all European semi-presidential countries.

Parliamentary Affairs, Special Issue: French Presidential and Parliamentary Elections 2012, Volume 66 Issue 1 January 2013.

Jørgen Møller and Svend-Erik Skaaning, ‘Regime Types and democratic sequencing’, Journal of Democracy, Volume 24, Number 1, 2013, pp. 142-155.

Fauzi M. Najjar, ‘Mubarak’s Constitutional Reforms’, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 38(1), 7–22, April 2011.

New Publications

Cristina Bucur and Robert Elgie, ‘The development of the French executive: Endogenous Americanization’, French Politics, Vol. 10, No. 4, 2012, pp. 389–402.

Robert Elgie, ‘The President of Ireland in Comparative Perspective, Irish Political Studies, vol. 27, no. 4, 2012, available for free at: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/d9PRxnHVZW74yTtfkxqK/full

Octavio Amorim Neto and Marina Costa Lobo, ‘Semi-presidentialism in lusophone countries: diffusion and operation’, Democratization, 2012, iFirst, 1–24

Rui Graça Feijó, ‘Semi-presidentialism, moderating power and inclusive governance. The experience of Timor-Leste in consolidating democracy’, Democratization, iFirst, 1–21, 2012.

Juan Carlos Montero Bagatella, ‘El semipresidencialismo como alternativa para el presidencialismo mexicano’, Décimo Segundo Certamen de Ensayo Político, pp. 17-45. Available at: http://bit.ly/12IWHNW

Series of articles on presidentialism and ethnic violence in Ethnopolitics, Latest Issues, just online.

Juhani Ihanus, ‘Putin and Medvedev: Double Leadership in Russia’, The Journal of Psychohistory, 38 (3) Winter 2011, pp. 251-284.

John Gaffney, ‘Leadership and Style in the French Fifth Republic: Nicola Sarkozy’s presidency in historical and cultural perspective’, French Politics, vol. 10, no. 4, 2012, pp. 345-363

John Coakley, ‘An ambiguous office? The position of head of state in the Irish Constitution’, Irish Jurist, no. 48, 2012, pp. 43-70. Not new, but free.

Erica Marat, The Tulip Revolution: Kyrgyzstan One Year After: March 15, 2005 — March 24, 2006, The Jamestown Foundation, available at: www.jamestown.org/uploads/media/Jamestown-TulipRevolution.pdf

Graeme Gill, ‘The Decline of a Dominant Party and the Destabilization of Electoral Authoritarianism?’, Post-Soviet Affairs, Volume 28, Number 4 / October-December 2012, pp. 449-471.

Sait Akşit, ‘The Turkish Cypriot Presidential Election of April 2010: Normalisation of Politics’, South European Society and Politics, 17:2, 175-194, 2012.

Carlos Jalali, ‘The 2011 Portuguese Presidential Elections: Incumbency Advantage in Semi-presidentialism?’, South European Society and Politics, 17:2, 239-260, 2012.

Pedro C. Magalhães, ‘After the Bailout: Responsibility, Policy, and Valence in the Portuguese Legislative Election of June 2011′, South European Society and Politics, 17:2, 309-327, 2012.

Senem Aydın-Düzgit, ‘No Crisis, No Change: The Third AKP Victory in the June 2011 Parliamentary Elections in Turkey’, South European Society and Politics, 17:2, 329-346, 2012.

New publications

Robert Elgie and Christine Fauvelle-Aymar, ‘Turnout under Semi-presidentialism: First- and Second-order Elections to National-Level Institutions’, in Comparative Political Studies, vol. 45, no. 11, pp. 1598-1623, December 2012.

Robert Elgie, ‘Exogenous political institutions? Constitutional choice in post-independence Francophone sub-Saharan Africa’, in Political Research Quarterly, vol. 65, no. 4, pp. 770-782, December 2012.

Robert Elgie, ‘The President of Ireland in comparative perspective’, in Irish Political Studies, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 502-521, December 2012.

Special Issue on the President of Ireland, in Irish Political Studies, vol. 27, no. 4, December 2012.

Gerd Strohmeier, ‘More legitimation = more competence? Heads of state in parliamentary systems in comparative perspective’, in Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, October 2012, available at: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12286-012-0132-7#page-1

Kristoffer Kolltveit, ‘Presidentialisation in the Executive Sphere? Evidence from Norwegian Cabinet’, in Scandinavian Political Studies, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 372-392, 2012.

Ludger Helms, ‘Democratic Political Leadership in the New Media Age: A Farewell to Excellence’, in British Journal of Politics and International Relations, vol. 14, pp. 651-670.

Jacques Gerstlé and Abel François, ‘Mediatizing the Economy and Manufacturing French Presidential Popularity (2007-2010), in Revue française de science politique (English), Vol. 61, No 2, pp. 65-96.

Mihaela Codrina Levail Camelia Tomescu, ‘Atributiile Presedintelui Romaniei in Raport cu Parlamentul – Aspecte Teoretice si Practice’, Revista Transilvana de Stiinte Administrative, 1(30), 2012, pp. 84-105, available at: http://rtsa.ro/files/RTSA-30-2012-6LEVAI,%20TOMESCU.pdf

New Publications

Marina Costa Lobo. Antonio Costa Pinto, and Pedro Magalhlaes, ‘The Political Institutions of Portuguese Democracy’, in Sebastian Royo (ed.), Portugal in the Twenty-First Century. Politics, Society, and Economics, Lexington Books, 2012, available at: http://www.ics.ul.pt/rdonweb-docs/ICS_20120313_MClobo_ACPinto_PMagalhaes_Political_AUTORIZADO.pdf

Steve Tsang, ‘Ma Ying-jeou’s re-election: implications for Taiwan and East Asia’, The Pacific Review, 25:3, 387-401.

Geoffrey Robinson, ‘East Timor Ten Years On: Legacies of Violence’, The Journal of Asian Studies, Available on CJO 2011 doi:10.1017/S0021911811001586

Abbas Kadhim ed., Governance in the Middle East and North Africa A Handbook, Routledge, 2012, with chapters on Yemen, Palestinian Authority, Egypt, and Algeria.

Mihaela Codrina Levai and Camelia Tomescu, ‘Atribuţiile preşedintelui româniei în raport cu parlamentul – aspecte teoretice şi practice’, Revista Transilvană de Ştiinţe Administrative 1(30)/2012, pp. 84-105, available at: http://rtsa.ro/files/RTSA-30-2012-6LEVAI,%20TOMESCU.pdf

Sergiu Gherghina & George Jiglau, ‘Where Does The Mechanism Collapse? Understanding The 2008 Romanian Electoral System’, Representation, Vol. 48, No. 4, 2012, pp. 445-459.

Jacek K. Sokołowski, ‘The 2011 Elections In Poland: Defining A New Cleavage’, Representation, Vol. 48, No. 4, 2012, pp. 461-473.

New Publications

John F. Copper, Taiwan’s Democracy on Trial: Political Change During the Chen Shui-bian Era, University Press of America, 2010.

Mihaela Simion, ‘Some Considerations Regarding the Heads of State Immunity in the European Union Member Countries’, Jurnalul de Studii Juridice, Issue no. Suppl. 3 /2012, pp. 35-48.

Crina Mihaela Verga, ‘ The Criminal Liability of a Republic’s President’, Journal of Danubian Studies and Research, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 56-63, available at: http://journals.univ-danubius.ro/index.php/research/article/viewFile/1519/1268

Special Issue: Parliaments and Citizens, Journal of Legislative Studies, Volume 18, Issue 3-4, 2012, articles on Finland, France, and Portugal

David Arter, ‘Big Bang’ Elections and Party System Change in Scandinavia: Farewell to the ‘Enduring Party System’?’, Parliamentary Affairs (2012) 65, 822–844.

Matteo Fumagalli, ‘The 2011 presidential elections in Kyrgyzstan’, Electoral Studies 31 (2012), 861–867.

Barıs Kesgin, ‘The 2011 parliamentary election in Turkey’, Electoral Studies 31 (2012), 867-870.

Raphaël Lefèvre, ‘ Current events in North Africa’, The Journal of North African Studies, Volume 17, Issue 4, 2012, the Algerian parliamentary election of 2012, pp. 717-718

New publications

Carlos Pereira and Marcus André Melo, ‘The Surprising Success Of Multiparty Presidentialism’, Journal of Democracy Volume 23, Number 3 July 2012, pp. 156-170.

Catherine Lena Kelly, ‘Senegal: What Will turnover Bring?’, Journal of Democracy Volume 23, Number 3 July 2012, pp. 121-131.

Special issue of East European Politics, 28:3, 2012 on Russian Party Politics, includes Neil Robinson, ‘Institutional factors and Russian political parties: the changing needs of regime consolidation in a neo-patrimonial system’, East European Politics, 28:3, 2012, pp. 298-309.

Special issue of Turkish Studies on The Issues and Consequences of the 2011 Turkish Elections, including Burak Bilgehan Özpek, ‘Constitution-Making in Turkey After the 2011 Elections’, Turkish Studies, 13:2, 2012, pp. 153-167.

Mvemba Phezo Dizolele and Pascal Kalume Kambale, ‘The DRC’s Crumbling legitimacy’, Journal of Democracy Volume 23, Number 3 July 2012, pp. 109-120.

Michael Gallagher and Michael Marsh, How Ireland Voted 2011: The Full Story of Ireland’s Earthquake Election, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2011, 352 pp.