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

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.

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

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.

Zwelethu Jolobe, ‘Stronger Parliaments? Stronger Democracies? Trends in Africa’, Do Parliaments Matter? The Challenges Of Change African Legislatures And The Advance Of Democracy, available at: http://c1.hbs.boell-net.de/downloads/Perspectives_22012.pdf#page=9

Paul Chaisty, Nic Cheeseman & Timothy Power, ‘Rethinking the ‘presidentialism debate’: conceptualizing coalitional politics in cross-regional perspective’, Democratization, iFirst

Artur Olechno, ‘The Constitutional Aspects Of Countersignature In Central And Eastern European Countries’, available at: http://dukonference.lv/public/proceedings_of_conf/53konf/tiesibas/Olechno.pdf

Rubén Ruiz-Rufino, ‘Satisfaction with Democracy in Multi-ethnic Countries: The Effect of Representative Political Institutions on Ethnic Minorities’, Political Studies, Early View (Online Version of Record published before inclusion in an issue)

Ismail Aydıngun and Aysegul Aydıngun, Nation-State Building in Kyrgyzstan and Transition to the Parliamentary System, Parliamentary Affairs Advance Access published August 6, 2012

Taras Kuzio, ‘Ukraine at 20: The constancy of ten illogical inconsistencies’, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Available online 24 August 2012.

Robert Elgie, ‘Political Leadership in Old and New Democracies’, in Ludger Helms (ed.), Comparative Political Leadership, Palgrave, 2012, pp. 272-291.

Howard J. Wiarda and Jonathan T. Polk, ‘Separation of legislative and executive governmental powers’, in David S. Clark (ed.), Comparative Law and Society, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2012, pp. 157-174.

Valentin Ionită, ‘ The Concepts Of Political Regime And Form Of Government And Their Current Use’, Vahalia University, Law Study, vol. 20, no. 2, 2012, pp. 275-282, available at: http://www.analefsj.ro/ro/reviste/numarul20/nr20.pdf#page=275

Oleksii Sydorchuk, ‘ The Impact Of Semi-Presidentialism On Democratic Consolidation: Cases Of Poland And Ukraine;’, Democratic Initiatives Foundation, available at: http://dif.org.ua/modules/pages/files/1339594055_1742.pdf

Raul Magni-Berton, ‘Reassessing Duvergerian semi-presidentialism: An electoral perspective’, Comparative European Politics, advance online publication 2 July 2012; doi: 10.1057/cep.2012.19.

David Mokam, ‘The Search for a Cameroonian Model of Democracy or the Search for the Domination of the State Party: 1966-2006’, Cadernos de Estudos Africanos, vol. 23, 2012, available at: http://cea.revues.org/533

Martin Ejnar Hansen and Marc Debus, ‘The behaviour of political parties and MPs in the parliaments of the Weimar Republic’, Party Politics, 2012 18:5, pp. 709-726.

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

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

Set of articles on ‘Putinism Under Siege’, Journal of Democracy Volume 23, Number 3 July 2012.

Edwin Bacon, ‘ Electoral manipulation and the development of Russia’s political system’, East European Politics, 28:2, 105-118.

Hubert Tworzecki, ‘The Polish parliamentary elections of October 2011’, Electoral Studies 31 (2012), 617-621.

Noam Lupu, ‘The 2011 general elections in Peru’, Electoral Studies 31 (2012), 621-624.

Gregory D. Schmidt, ‘AIDS or cancer?: The 2011 Peruvian elections’, Electoral Studies 31 (2012), 624-628.

Miljenko Antic, ‘The parliamentary elections in Croatia, December 2011’, Electoral Studies 31 (2012), 636-639.

Thomas Sedelius and Sten Berglund, ‘Towards Presidential Rule in Ukraine: Hybrid Regime Dynamics Under Semi-Presidentialism’, Baltic Journal of Law & Politics, vol. 5, no. 1, 2012, pp. 20-45, freely available at: http://www.metapress.com/content/104218623h372352/fulltext.pdf

Nathan F. Batto, ‘Differing mandates and party loyalty in mixed-member systems: Taiwan as a baseline case’, Electoral Studies, Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 384–392.

Kevin Theakston and Jouke de Vries (eds.), Former Leaders in Modern Democracies: Political Sunsets, Palgrave 2012, chaps. on France and Ireland.

Virginie Baudais and Enrico Sborgi, ‘The general elections in Niger, January–March 2011’, Electoral Studies, Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 448-458.

Ekaterina R. Rashkova, ‘The 2011 Presidential election in Bulgaria: Have Bulgarians left the Left?’, Electoral Studies, Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 462-465.

Alenka Krašovec , ‘Europe and the parliamentary elections in Slovenia, December 2011’, EPERN Election Briefings, no. 69, available at: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/sei/research/europeanpartieselectionsreferendumsnetwork/epernelectionbriefings

Aleks Szczerbiak , ‘Europe and the October 2011 Polish Parliamentary Election’, EPERN Election Briefings, no. 65, available at: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/sei/research/europeanpartieselectionsreferendumsnetwork/epernelectionbriefings

Chih-Cheng Lo, ‘Taiwan’s Democratization after the Strongmen: Leadership Matters’, in Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao (ed.), Democracy or Alternative Political Systems in Asia. After the Strongmen, London: Routledge.

Stephen White (ed.), Russia’s Authoritarian Elections, London: Routledge.

S. P. Roberts, Putin’s United Russia Party, London: Routledge.

Special issue of Turkish Studies, The Issues and Consequences of the 2011 Turkish Elections, Volume 13, Issue 2, 2012

Pål Kolstø and Helge Blakkisrud, ‘De facto states and democracy: The case of Nagorno-Karabakh’, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Volume 45, Issues 1–2, March–June 2012, Pages 141–151

Virginie Baudais and Enrico Sborg, ‘The general elections in Niger, January–March 2011’, Electoral Studies, Volume 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 453-458.

Ekaterina R. Rashkova, ‘The 2011 Presidential election in Bulgaria: Have Bulgarians left the Left?’, Electoral Studies, Volume 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 462-465.

Eimear O’Leary, ‘General Election (Republic of Ireland) 2011’, Irish Political Studies, vol. 27, no. 2, 2012, pp. 326-340.

Philip Murphy, ‘Republic of Ireland 2011’, Irish Political Studies, vol. 27, no. 2, 2012, pp. 171-249.

Canan Aslan-Akman, ‘The 2011 Parliamentary Elections in Turkey and Challenges Ahead for Democratic Reform Under a Dominant Party System’, Mediterranean Politics, Volume 17, Issue 1, 2012, pp. 77-95.

Kimberly A. McQuire, ‘President-Prime Minister Relations, Party Systems, and Democratic Stability in Semipresidential Regimes: Comparing the French and Russian Models’, Texas International Law Journal, Volume 47, Issue 2, pp. 428-454, 2012.

Giuseppe Ieraci, ‘Government Alternation and Patterns of Competition in Europe: Comparative Data in Search of Explanations’, West European Politics, 35:3, 530-550, May 2012.

Special issue on the Sarkozy presidency, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies Vol. 16, No. 3, June 2012, including Alistair Cole, ‘The Fast Presidency? Nicolas Sarkozy And The Political Institutions Of The Fifth Republic.’

R. F. King, and P. E. Sum, (eds): Romania Under Basescu: Aspirations, Achievements and Frustrations during His First Presidential Term, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011.

Birgit Embalo, ‘Civil–military relations and political order in Guinea-Bissau’, Journal of Modern African Studies, vol. 50, no. 2, 2012, pp. 253-281.

Masako Shimizu, ‘How the Political Transformations of Palestine Affected the Roles of Executive Institutions: The Political Process from the Hamas Government Formation to the Split of the Palestinian Authority (2006-2007)’, AGLOS: Journal of Area-Based Global Studies, vol. 3, 2012, pp. 3-31 (in Japanese).

Ceren Lord, ‘The Persistence of Turkey’s Majoritarian System of Government’, Government and Opposition, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 228–255, 2012.

Filiz Başkan and Aylin Güney, ‘Turkey’s June 2011 Parliamentary Elections ‘, Journal of Balkan & Near Eastern Studies; March 2012, Vol. 14 Issue 1, pp. 165-174.

Omar Sanchez-Sibony, ‘The 2011 presidential election in Peru: a thorny moral and political dilemma’, Contemporary Politics, 18:1, 109-126, 2012.