FULL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

2018, Political Leadership: A Pragmatic Institutional Approach, London, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-1-137-34622-3, pp. 281.

2016, co-editor with Emiliano Grossman and Amy Mazur, Oxford Handbook of French Politics, Oxford, Oxford University Press, ISBN: 9780199669691, pp. 752.

2016, co-editor with Sophia Moestrup, Semi-presidentialism in the Caucasus and Central Asia, London, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-1-137-38781-3, pp. 234.

2015, Studying Political Leadership: Foundations and Contending Accounts, London, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978–113702484–8, pp. 201.

2011, Semi-Presidentialism: Sub-Types And Democratic Performance, Oxford, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-958598-4, pp. 224.

2011, co-editor with Sophia Moestrup and Yu-Shan Wu, Semi-Presidentialism and Democracy, London, Palgrave, ISBN 978-0-230-24292-0.

2008, co-editor with Sophia Moestrup, Semi-presidentialism in Central and Eastern Europe, Manchester, Manchester University Press. 2008, ISBN 978-0-7190-7535-3.

2007, co-editor with Sophia Moestrup, Semi-presidentialism Outside Europe, London, Routledge, 2007, ISBN 978-0-415-38047-8.

2003, Political Institutions in Contemporary France, Oxford, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-878266-7 (pbk), pp. xiii + 274.

2001, editor, Divided Government in Comparative Perspective, Oxford, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-829565-0 (hbk).

2000, co-authored with Steven Griggs, Debates in French Politics, London, Routledge, ISBN 0-415-17478-3 (hbk) 0-415-17479-1 (pbk), pp. xix + 216.

1999, editor, Semi-presidentialism in Europe, Oxford, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-829386-0 (hbk).

1998, co-authored with Helen Thompson, The Politics of Central Banks, London, Routledge, 1998, ISBN 0-415-14422-1, pp. ix + 189.

1996, editor, Electing the French President, The 1995 Presidential Election, London, Macmillan, 1996, ISBN 0-333-63084-X (hbk) 0-333-63085-8 (pbk).

1995, Political Leadership in Liberal Democracies, London, Macmillan, ISBN 0-333-59758-3 (hbk) 0-333-59759-1 (pbk), pp. xiii + 231.

1993, The Role of the Prime Minister in France, 1981-91, London, Macmillan,  ISBN 0-333-59204-2, New York, St. Martin’s Press, ISBN 0-312-10194-5, pp. xi + 210.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Forthcoming, ‘Presidentialisation: One term, Two Uses – Between Deductive Exercise and Grand Historical Narrative’, with Gianluca Passarelli, accepted for publication in Political Studies Review.

Forthcoming, ‘Bicameralism and Bicameral Reforms in Democracy and Dictatorship in Comparative Perspective’, with Alexander Baturo, accepted for publication in Taiwan Journal of Democracy.

Forthcoming, ‘The election of Emmanuel Macron and the new French party system: A return to the éternel marais?’, Modern & Contemporary France, https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2017.1408062, pp. 1-15.

2018, ‘The (not-so-surprising) non-partisanship of the Irish Supreme Court’, with Adam McAuley and Eoin O’Malley, Irish Political Studies, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 88-111.

2016, ‘Measuring presidential power’, with David Doyle, in British Journal of Political Science, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 731-741.

2016, ‘Varieties of Presidentialism and of Leadership Outcomes’, in Daedalus, vol. 145, no. 3, 2016, pp. 57-68.

2016, ‘Government Systems, Party Politics, and Institutional Engineering in the Round’, Insight Turkey, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 79-92.

2016, ‘Three Waves of Semi-Presidential Studies’, in Democratization, vol. 23, no. 1, January 2016, pp. 49-70.

2014, ‘Proximity, Candidates, and Presidential Power: How Directly Elected Presidents Shape the Legislative Party System’, with Cristina Bucur, Bernard Dolez, and Annie Laurent, in Political Research Quarterly, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 467-477.

2012, ‘The development of the French executive: Endogenous Americanization‘, with Cristina Bucur, in French Politics, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 389-402.

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

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

2012, ‘The President of Ireland in comparative perspective’, in Irish Political Studies, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 502-521, December 2012. A slightly revised version was also published in John Coakley and Kevin Rafter (eds.), The Irish Presidency: Power, Ceremony and Politics, Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2013, pp. 17-39.

2011, ‘Explaining the Onset of Cohabitation under Semi-presidentialism’, with Iain McMenamin, in Political Studies, vol. 59, no. 3, pp. 616-635.

2011, ‘Presidentialism, Parliamentarism and Semi-presidentialism: Bringing Parties Back In’, in Government and Opposition, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 424-441.

2011, ‘Core Executive Studies Two Decades On’, in Public Administration, vol. 89, no. 1, pp. 64-77.

2010, ‘The Impact of Semi-Presidentialism on Governance in the Palestinian Authority’, with Francesco Cavatorta, in Parliamentary Affairs, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 22-40.

2010, ‘Semi-presidentialism, Cohabitation and the Collapse of Electoral Democracies 1990-2008’, in Government and Opposition, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 29-49.

2009, ‘Duverger, Semi-presidentialism and the supposed French archetype’, in West European Politics, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 248–267.

2009, ‘Journal publications from politics departments in Ireland 2003-2007: an update using the Hix method’, with Iain McMenamin, in European Political Science, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 104-112.

2008, ‘Semi-presidentialism and Democratic Performance’, with Iain McMenamin, in Japanese Journal of Political Science, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 323-340.

2008, ‘Political fragmentation, fiscal deficits and political institutionalisation’, with Iain McMenamin, in Public Choice, vol. 136, nos. 3-4, pp. 255-267.

2008, ‘The Effect of Increased Women’s Representation in Parliament: The Case of Rwanda’, with Claire Devlin, in Parliamentary Affairs, vol. 61, pp. 237-254.

2008, ‘The perils of semi-presidentialism. Are they exaggerated?’, in Democratization, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 49-66.

2007, ‘Varieties Of Semi-Presidentialism And Their Impact On Nascent Democracies’, Taiwan Journal of Democracy, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 53-71.

2006, ‘Testing the decline of parliament thesis. The parliamentary activity of the head of government in Ireland 1923-2002’, with John Stapleton, in Political Studies, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 465-85.

2006, ‘Why do governments delegate authority to quasi-autonomous agencies? The case of Independent Administrative Authorities in France’, in Governance, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 207-227.

2005, ‘A fresh look at semi-presidentialism. Varietions on a theme’, in Journal of Democracy, vol. 16, no. 3, July 2005, pp. 98-112. Reprinted in Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner and Philip J. Costopoulos (eds.), Debates on Democratization, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010, pp. 292-306, ISBN 13-978-0-8018-9777-1.

2005, ‘Credible commitment, political uncertainty, or policy complexity? Explaining variations in the independence of non-majoritarian institutions in France’, with Iain McMenamin, in British Journal of Political Science, vol. 35, pp. 531-548.

2005, ‘From Linz to Tsebelis: Three Waves of Presidential/Parliamentary Studies?’, in Democratization, vol. 12, no. 1, 2005, pp. 106-122.

2004, ‘Semi-presidentialism: concepts, consequences and contesting explanations’, in Political Studies Review, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 314-330.

2004, ‘The parliamentary activity of the head of government in Ireland (1923-2000) in comparative perspective’, with John Stapleton, in Journal of Legislative Studies, vol. 10, nos. 2-3, 2004, pp. 154-173. This is a reprinted and corrected version of a paper that first appeared in Journal of Legislative Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, 2003, pp. 37-56.

2003, ‘Governance traditions and narratives of public sector reform in France’, in Public Administration, vol. 81, no. 4, 2003, pp. 141-162.

2002, ‘La cohabitation de longue durée: Studying the 1997-2002 experience’, in Modern and Contemporary France, vol. 10, no. 3, 2002, pp. 297-311.

2002, ‘The politics of the European Central Bank: Principal-agent theory and the democratic deficit’, in Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 9, no. 2, 2002, pp. 186-200.

2001, ‘Democratic accountability and central bank independence: A reply to various critics’, in West European Politics, vol. 24, no. 1, January 2001, pp. 217-221.

1999, ‘Responsabilité démocratique et indépendance de la banque centrale: La Banque centrale européenne dans une perspective historique et comparative’, in Revue Française d’Administration Publique, no. 92, oct.-dec. pp. 635-649 (revised and updated version of ‘Democratic accountability and central bank independence: historical and contemporary, national and European perspectives’ below).

1999, ‘The changing French political system’, in West European Politics, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 1-19.

1999, ‘The difficult art of comparative European politics’, in European Journal of Political Research, vol. 35, pp. 465-82.

1998, ‘Democratic accountability and central bank independence: historical and contemporary, national and European perspectives’, in West European Politics, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 53-76.

1998, ‘The classification of democratic regime types: conceptual ambiguity and contestable assumptions’, in European Journal of Political Research, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 219-238.

1997, ‘Two-ballot majority electoral systems’, in Representation, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 89-94.

1997, ‘Models of executive politics: a framework for the study of executive power relations in parliamentary and semi-presidential regimes’, in Political Studies, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 217-231. Nominated as one of the best articles published in Political Studies in the 1990s.

1996, ‘The French Presidency — Conceptualizing Presidential Power in the Fifth Republic’, in Public Administration, vol. 74, no. 2, pp. 275-291.

1993, ‘From the exception to the rule: The use of Article 49-3 of the Constitution since 1958’, in Modern and Contemporary France, vol. NS 1, no. 1, January, pp. 17-26.

1992,   ‘Accounting for the Survival of Minority Governments: An Examination of the French Case (1988-1991)’, with Moshe Maor, in West European Politics, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 57-74.

1992, ‘The Prime Minister’s Office in France: a changing role in a semi‑presidential system’, in Governance, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 104‑121.

1991, ‘A quoi sert le PS? The influence of the Parti socialiste on public policy since 1981’, with Steve Griggs, in Journal of Modern and Contemporary France, no. 47, October, pp. 20-29.

1991, ‘France: The Limits to Prime‑ministerial Government in a Semi-presidential System’, with Howard Machin, in West European Politics, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 62‑78. Reprinted in G.W. Jones, ed., West European Prime Ministers, Frank Cass, London, 1991, pp. 62-78, ISBN 0-7146-3425-5. Reprinted in David Bell (ed.), France, in The International Library of Politics and Comparative Government series, pp. 157-173, Dartmouth, Aldershot, 1995, ISBN 185521346X.

1991, ‘La méthode Rocard. Existe-t-elle?’, in Journal of Modern and Contemporary France, no. 44, January, pp. 11‑19.

BOOK CHAPTERS

2016, with Emiliano Grossman and Amy Mazur, ‘A Framework for a Comparative Politics of France’, in Robert Elgie, Emiliano Grossman, and Amy Mazur (eds.), Oxford, Oxford Handbook of French Politics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 3-12, ISBN: 9780199669691.

2016, with Emiliano Grossman, ‘The Study of Executive Politics’, in Robert Elgie, Emiliano Grossman, and Amy Mazur (eds.), Oxford, Oxford Handbook of French Politics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 177-197, ISBN: 9780199669691.

2016, with Emiliano Grossman and Amy Mazur, ‘Toward a Comparative Politics of France’, in Robert Elgie, Emiliano Grossman, and Amy Mazur (eds.), Oxford, Oxford Handbook of French Politics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 677-692, ISBN: 9780199669691.

2016, with Sophia Moestrup, ‘Weaker Presidents, Better Semi-presidentialism?’, in Robert Elgie and Sophia Moestrup (eds.), Semi-presidentialism in the Caucasus and Central Asia, London, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 207-226, ISBN 978-1-137-38781-3.

2016, with Sophia Moestrup, ‘Semi-presidentialism in democracies, quasi-democracies and autocracies’, in Robert Elgie and Sophia Moestrup (eds.), Semi-presidentialism in the Caucasus and Central Asia, London, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-28, ISBN 978-1-137-38781-3.

2015, ‘Types of Heads of State in European Politics’, in José M. Magone (ed.), Routledge Handbook of European Politics, London: Routledge, pp. 311-327, ISBN 978-0-415-62675-0.

2014, ‘Executive Leadership in Semi-presidential Systems’, in Paul ‘t Hart and R.A.W. Rhodes (eds.), Oxford Handbook Of Political Leadership, Oxford University Press, pp. 472-486, ISBN 978–0–19–965388-1.

2014, ‘The Institutional Approach to Political Leadership’, in John Kane and Haig Patapan (eds.), Good Democratic Leadership: On Prudence and Judgment in Modern Democracies, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 139-157, ISBN 978–0–19–968384–0.

2013, ‘The French presidency under Nicolas Sarkozy’, in Alistair Cole, Sophie Meunier and Vincent Tiberj (eds.), Developments in French Politics 5, London: Palgrave, 2pp. 19-34., ISBN 978-0-230-34962-9.

2013, ‘The Study of Political Leadership in Contemporary Liberal Democracies’, in Klaus Brummer and Heinrich Pehle (eds.), Analysen nationaler und supranationaler Politik, Verlag Barbara Budlich, pp. 327-338, ISBN 978-3-8474-088-2

2012, ‘Political Leadership in Old and New Democracies’, in Ludger Helms (ed.), Comparative Political Leadership, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 272-291, ISBN 978-0-230-29649-7.

2011, ‘Maurice Duverger: A Law, A Hypothesis and A Paradox’, in Martin Bull, Donatella Campus and Gianfranco Pasquino (eds.), Masters of Political Science, vol. 2, ECPR Press, pp. 75-92, ISBN 9781907301193.

2011, ‘Semi-presidentialism: An increasingly common constitutional choice’, in Robert Elgie, Sophia Moestrup and Yu-Shan Wu (eds.), Semi-presidentialism and Democracy, Palgrave, pp. 1-20, ISBN 978-0-230-24292-0.

2011, with Petra Schleiter, ‘Variation in the durability of semi-presidential democracies’, in Robert Elgie, Sophia Moestrup and Yu-Shan Wu (eds.), Semi-presidentialism and Democracy, Palgrave, pp. 42-60, ISBN 978-0-230-24292-0.

2011, ‘Semi-presidentialism in Western Europe’, in Robert Elgie, Sophia Moestrup and Yu-Shan Wu (eds.), Semi-presidentialism and Democracy, Palgrave, pp. 81-97, ISBN 978-0-230-24292-0.

2011, with Sophia Moestrup and Yu-Shan Wu, ‘Semi-presidentialism: What Have We Learned?’, in Robert Elgie, Sophia Moestrup and Yu-Shan Wu (eds.), Semi-presidentialism and Democracy, Palgrave, pp. 264-274, ISBN 978-0-230-24292-0.

2009, ‘Studying the French Presidency Under the Fifth Republic: Past Approaches and Future Perspectives’, in Sylvain Brouard, Andrew Appleton and Amy Mazur (eds.), The French Fifth Republic at Fifty: Beyond Stereotypes, Palgrave, pp. 25-40, ISBN 978-0-230-22124-6.

2008, with Sophia Moestrup, ‘Semi-presidentialism: a common regime type, but one that should be avoided?’, in Robert Elgie and Sophia Moestrup (eds.), Semi-presidentialism in Central and Eastern Europe, Manchester, Manchester University Press, pp. 1-13, ISBN 978-0-7190-7535-3.

2008, with Sophia Moestrup, ‘The impact of semi-presidentialism on the performance of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe’, in Robert Elgie and Sophia Moestrup (eds.), Semi-presidentialism in Central and Eastern Europe, Manchester, Manchester University Press, pp. 239-257, ISBN 978-0-7190-7535-3.

2007, ‘What is semipresidentialism and where is it found?’, in Robert Elgie and Sophia Moestrup (eds.), Semi-presidentialism Outside Europe, London, Taylor and Francis, pp. 1-13, ISBN 9780415380478.

2007, with Sophia Moestrup, ‘The Choice of Semi-presidentialism and Its Consequences’, in Robert Elgie and Sophia Moestrup (eds.), Semi-presidentialism Outside Europe, London, Taylor and Francis, pp. 237-248, ISBN 9780415380478.

2006, ‘France’, in Colin Hay and Anand Menon (eds.), European Politics, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 17-30, ISBN 0-19-928428-8.

2006, ‘France: Stacking the Deck’, in Michael Gallagher and Paul Mitchell (eds.), The Politics of Electoral Systems, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 119-136, ISBN 0-19-925756-6.

2005, ‘The political executive’, in Alistair Cole, Patrick Le Galès and Jonah Levy (eds.), Developments in French Politics 3, London, Palgrave, pp. 70-87, ISBN 1-4039-4179-3.

2004, with Peter Fitzgerald, ‘Political Leadership: The President and the Taoiseach’, in John Coakley and Michael Gallagher (eds.), Politics in the Republic of Ireland, 4th ed., London, Routledge, pp. 305-327, ISBN 0-414-28067-2.

2004, ‘Institutions and Voters: Structuring Electoral choice’, in M. Lewis-Beck (ed.), The French Voter. Before and After the 2002 Elections, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 110-125, ISBN 0-333-99419-1.

2001, ‘What is divided government?’, in R. Elgie (ed.), Divided Government in Comparative Perspective, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 1-20, ISBN 0-19-829565-0.

2001, “Cohabitation’: Divided Government French-Style’, in R. Elgie (ed.), Divided Government in Comparative Perspective, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 106-126, ISBN 0-19-829565-0.

2001, ‘Divided Government in Comparative Perspective’, in R. Elgie (ed.), Divided Government in Comparative Perspective, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 209-225, ISBN 0-19-829565-0.

2001, ‘Departmental secretaries in France’, in R.A.W. Rhodes and P. Weller (eds.), The Changing World of Top Officials.Mandarins or Valets?, Buckingham, Open University Press, pp. 11-40, ISBN 0-335-20301-91.

2001, with Jan Zielonka, ‘Constitutions and Constitution-Building: A Comparative Perspective’, in Jan Zielonka (ed.), Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe, Vol. 1, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 25-47, ISBN 0-19-924408-1.

2000, ‘Staffing the summit: France’, in B. Guy Peters, R.A.W. Rhodes and Vincent Wright (eds.), Administering the Summit: The Administration of the Core Executive in Developed Countries, London, Macmillan, pp. 225-44, ISBN 0-333-75248-1.

1999, ‘Political leadership’, in John Coakley and Michael Gallagher (eds.), Politics in the Republic of Ireland, 3rd ed., London, Routledge, pp. 232-48, ISBN 0-415-22194-3.

1999, ‘Semi-presidentialism and comparative institutional engineering’, in Robert Elgie (ed.), Semi-presidentialism in Europe, Oxford University Press, pp. 281-99, ISBN 0-19-829386-0.

1999, ‘The politics of semi-presidentialism’, in Robert Elgie (ed.), Semi-presidentialism in Europe, Oxford University Press, pp. 1-21, ISBN 0-19-829386-0.

1999, ‘France’ in Robert Elgie (ed.), Semi-presidentialism in Europe, Oxford University Press, pp. 67-85, ISBN 0-19-829386-0.

1996, The institutional logics of presidential elections’, in Robert Elgie (ed.), Electing the French President, The 1995 Presidential Election, London, Macmillan, pp. 51-72, ISBN 0-333-63084-X.

1996, with Vincent Wright, ‘The French presidency: the changing public policy environment’, in Robert Elgie (ed.), Electing the French President, The 1995 Presidential Election, London, Macmillan, pp. 172-194, ISBN 0-333-63084-X.

1995, ‘France and Europe’, in Paul Furlong and Andrew Cox (eds.), The European Union at the Crossroads, The Problems of Implementing the Single Market Project, London, Earlsgate Press, pp. 39-55, ISBN 1-873439-16-4.

1994, ‘Christian Democracy in France: the politics of electoral constraint’, in David Hanley, (ed.), Christian Democracy in Europe. A Comparative Perspective, London, Pinter, pp. 155-167, ISBN 1-855-67086-0.