Jessica Fortin, ‘Measuring Presidential Powers: Some Pitfalls of Aggregate Measurement’, International Political Science Review, published online 13 April 2012

Hans Ulrich Jessurun d’Oliveira, ‘The State of the European Union’s Monarchies: The EU and Its Monarchies: Influences and Frictions’, European Constitutional Law Review, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 63–81, 2012

Susan Stewart, Margarete Klein, Andrea Schmitz and Hans-Henning Schroder (eds.), Presidents, Oligarchs and Bureaucrats: Forms of Rule in the Post- Soviet Space, Ashgate, 2012.

Thorvaldur Gylfason, ‘From Collapse to Constitution: The Case of Iceland’, CESifo Working Paper No. 3770 Category 2: Public Choice March 2012, available at: http://www.nwoo.org/doku/Island_constitution.PDF

Desha M. Girod & Meir R. Walters, ‘Elite-led democratisation in aid-dependent states: the case of Mauritania’, The Journal of North African Studies, 17:2, 181-193, 2012.

The following are all available at: http://www.ipris.org/?menu=6&page=57

David Zounmenou, “Guinea-Bissau in 2011: Between Stability and Uncertainties” (IPRIS Lusophone Countries Bulletin: 2011 Review), 21-26.

Kai Thaler, “Mozambique in 2011: Staying the Path” (IPRIS Lusophone Countries Bulletin: 2011 Review), 27-32

Paulo Gorjão, “Portugal in 2011: The Downgrade of All Fears” (IPRIS Lusophone Countries Bulletin: 2011 Review), 33-38.

Gerhard Seibert, “São Tomé and Príncipe in 2011: Again Waiting for Better Times, With a New Old President” (IPRIS Lusophone Countries Bulletin: 2011 Review), 39-45

Nuno Canas Mendes, “Timor Leste in 2011: The Prelude of a New Cycle?” (IPRIS Lusophone Countries Bulletin: 2011 Review), 46-50

Scott Radnitz, ‘Oil in the family: managing presidential succession in Azerbaijan’, Democratization, Vol. 19, No. 1, February 2012, pp. 60–77.

Furkat Zhurakulov, ‘Separation Of Powers In The States Of Central Asia And The Caucasus’, Central Asia and the Caucasus. Journal of Social and Political Studies, Volume 12, Issue 4, 2011, http://www.ca-c.org/journal/2011-04-eng/04.shtml

Nikolay Borisov, ‘The Institution Of Presidency In The Central Asian Countries: Personalization Vs. Institutionalization’, Central Asia and the Caucasus. Journal of Social and Political Studies, Volume 12, Issue 4, 2011, http://www.ca-c.org/journal/2011-04-eng/05.shtml

Ersin Kalaycioglu, ‘Kulturkampf in Turkey: The Constitutional Referendum of 12 September 2010’, South European Society and Politics, 17:1, 2012, pp. 1-22.

Andrei P. Tsygankov, ‘Russia and the CIS in 2011: Uncertain Economic Recovery’, Asian Survey, Vol. 52, No. 1, January/February 2012, pp. 42-51.

Ming-Tong Chen, ‘ Taiwan in 2011: Focus on Crucial Presidential Election’, Asian Survey, Vol. 52, No. 1, January/February 2012, pp. 72-80.

Li Narangoa, ‘Mongolia in 2011: Resources Bring Friends and Wealth’, Asian Survey, Vol. 52, No. 1, January/February 2012, pp. 81-87.

Jonathan Goodhand, ‘Sri Lanka in 2011: Consolidation and Militarization of the Post-War Regime’, Asian Survey, Vol. 52, No. 1, January/February 2012, pp. 130-137.

James Feuille, ‘Reforming Egypt’s Constitution: Hope for Egyptian Democracy?’, Texas International Law Journal, vol. 47, no. 1, 2012, pp. 237-259, available at: http://www.tilj.org/content/journal/47/num1/Feuille237.pdf

Jean Blondel, ‘Presidentialism’ in the Ex-Soviet Union, Japanese Journal of Political Science, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 1–36.

Dennis Shoesmith, ‘Is Small Beautiful? Multiparty Politics and Democratic Consolidation in Timor-Leste’, Asian Politics & Policy, Volume 4, Number 1, Pages 33–51

Amanda E. Wooden and Christoph H. Stefes (eds), The politics of transition in Central Asia and the Caucasus: enduring legacies and emerging challenges, Routledge, 2009.

Pedro Seabra, Guinea-Bissau: Presidential Election amidst Political Turmoil. Available at; http://www.ipris.org/?menu=6&page=52

Kevin Deegan-Krause and Tim Haughton, ‘The 2010 parliamentary elections in Slovakia’, Electoral Studies, vol. 31, no. 1 2012, pp. 222–225.

Michael Courtney and Michael Gallagher, ‘The parliamentary election in Ireland, February 2011’, Electoral Studies, vol. 31, no. 1 2012, pp. 231-234.

Hannu Nurmi and Lasse Nurmi, ‘The parliamentary election in Finland, April 2011’, Electoral Studies, vol. 31, no. 1 2012, pp. 234-238.

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

Muiris MacCarthaigh and Maurice Manning (eds.), The Houses of the Oireachtas: Parliament in Ireland, Dublin: Institute for Public Administration, 2011.

John T. Ishiyama, Comparative Politics: Principles of Democracy and Democratization, chap. 8, Legislatures and Executives, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

Hayashi Tadayuki & Ogushi Atsushi (eds), Post-Communist Transformations: The Countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Russia in Comparative Perspective, Slavic Eurasian Studies No. 21, University of Hokkaido, Slavic Research Centre, 2009.

Oleg Zaznaev, ‘The presidentialisation of a semi-presidential regime: the case of Russia’, in Stephen White, ed., Politics and the ruling group in Putin’s Russia, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp.

Ergun Özbudun, ‘Turkey’s Search for a New Constitution’, Insight Turkey, Vol. 14, No.1, 2012, pp. 39-50.

Mahmoud Hamad, ‘The Constitutional Challenges in Post-Mubarak Egypt’, Insight Turkey, Vol. 14, No.1, 2012, pp. 51-69, available at: http://www.insightturkey.com/Insight_Turkey_Vol_14_1_2012_Hamad.pdf

International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), A Practical Guide to Constitution Building, available at: http://www.idea.int/publications/pgcb/index.cfm

Susan Stewart, Margarete Klein, Andrea Schmitz and Hans-Henning Schröder (eds.), Presidents, Oligarchs and Bureaucrats. Forms of Rule in the Post-Soviet Space, Ashgate, 2012.

Richard Sakwa, The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Tanya Bagashka, ‘Presidentialism and the Development of Party Systems in Hybrid Regimes: Russia 2000–2003’, Europe-Asia Studies, 64:1, 2012, pp. 91-113.

Stephen Bloom and Stephen Shulman, ‘Interest versus Identity: Economic Voting in Ukrainian Presidential Elections’, Post-Soviet Affairs, Volume 27, Number 4 / October-December 2011, pp. 410-428.

Uros Pinteric, Developing a Parliamentary Seniority System. A Case Study of Slovenia, Problems of Post-Communism, vol. 58, no. 6, November/December 2011, pp. 36–47.

Est Europa – La Revue, 2011, no. 2, reviews of 2010 for Bulgaria, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia, available at: http://www.est-europa.univ-pau.fr/est-europa-la-revue/numero-en-cours.html

Journal of Democracy, articles on Turkey Under the AKP, Volume 23, Number 1, January 2012

Stephen Quinlan, ‘The Lisbon Experience in Ireland: ‘No’ in 2008 but ‘Yes’ in 2009 – How and Why?’, Irish Political Studies, Volume 27, Issue 1, 2012, pp. 139-153.

European Journal of Political Research, Political Data Yearbook, December 2011, Volume 50, Issue 7-8, pp. 867–1185

Dennis Shoesmith, ‘Timor-Leste. On the Road to Peace and Prosperity?’, Southeast Asian Affairs, 2011, pp. 323-335.

Yu-tzung Chang, Yun-han Chu, and Min-hua Huang, ‘Procedural quality only? Taiwanese democracy reconsidered’, International Political Science Review November 2011, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 598-619.

Thomas O’Brien, ‘Problems of political transition in Ukraine: leadership failure and democratic consolidation’, Contemporary Politics, Vol. 16, No. 4, December 2010, 355–367

Ben Stanley, ‘Populism, nationalism, or national populism? An analysis of Slovak voting behaviour at the 2010 parliamentary election’, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 44 (2011), pp. 257-270.

Uros Pinteric, ‘Developing a Parliamentary Seniority System. A Case Study of Slovenia’, Problems of Post-Communism, vol. 58, no. 6, November/December 2011, pp. 36–47.

Christian B. Jensen and Robert J. McGrath, ‘Making Rules about Rulemaking : A Comparison of Presidential and Parliamentary Systems’, Political Research Quarterly, 2011, 64(3) 656–667.

Peter Mair, ‘The State of Ireland’, European Political Science, Volume 10, Issue 4, December 2011, pp. 432-440.

John FitzGibbon, ‘The Irish General Election Of 25th February 2011’, EPERN Election Briefing No. 64.

Tapio Raunio, ‘Europe And The Finnish Parliamentary Elections Of April 17, 2011’, Election Briefing No 63.

Both available at: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/sei/research/europeanpartieselectionsreferendumsnetwork/epernelectionbriefings

Fırat Cengiz and Lars Hoffmann, ‘The 2011 General Elections in Turkey: Potential Implications on Domestic and International Politics in the Shadow of a Discourse Change?’, Parliamentary Affairs (2012) 65, 255–269.

Florent Gougou and Simon Labouret, ‘The 2011 French cantonal elections: The last voter sanction before the 2012 presidential poll’, French Politics, Volume 9, Issue 4, December 2011, pp. 381-403.

Carl Henrik Knutsen, ‘Which democracies prosper? Electoral rules, form of government and economic growth’, Electoral Studies 30, 2011, pp. 83–90.

Max Bader, ‘Trends and patterns in electoral malpractice in post-Soviet Eurasia’, Journal of Eurasian Studies, online first (available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1879366511000273).

Edward Morgan-Jones, Constitutional Bargaining in Russia 1990-1993: Institutions and Uncertainty, London, Routledge, 2010.

Aylin S. Görener and Meltem S. Ucal, ‘The Personality and Leadership Style of Recep Tayyip Erdogan: Implications for Turkish Foreign Policy’, Turkish Studies, 12:3, pp. 357-381, 2011.

Paul Kubicek, ‘The 2011 Elections and Prospects for Change in Turkey’, Mediterranean Politics, 16:3, pp. 443-448, 2011.

Carlos Jalali, ‘The 2011 Portuguese Presidential Elections: Incumbency Advantage in Semi-presidentialism?’, South European Society and Politics, online first.

Eugene Huskey and David Hill, ‘The 2010 referendum and parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan’, Electoral Studies, 30 (2011), pp. 876–879.

Michael Gallagher, ‘Parties and Referendums in Ireland 1937–2011’, Irish Political Studies, Vol. 26, No. 4, 535–544, December 2011.

Tapio Raunio, ‘Semi-presidentialism and European integration: lessons from Finland for constitutional design’, Journal of European Public Policy, DOI:10.1080/13501763.2011.614139

David Marrani, ‘Semi- Presidentialism à la française: the Recent Constitutional Evolution of the “Two-Headed” Executive’, Constitutional FORUM constitutionnel, vol. 18, no. 2, 2009, available at: http://www.law.ualberta.ca/centres/ccs/publications/journals/constitutionalforum/Volume18overview

Graeme Gill and James Young (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Russian Politics & Society, London: Routledge, 2011, chaps. by Willerton on the presidency, by Smith on the Constitution, and by Gill and Hill on the Yeltsin, Putin and Medvedev presidencies.

Richard Sakwa, ‘The Future of Russian Democracy’, Government and Opposition, Vol. 46, No. 4, pp. 517–537, 2011.

Max Bader, ‘Hegemonic political parties in post-Soviet Eurasia: Towards party-based authoritarianism?’, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 44 (2011) 189–197.

David Arter, ‘Taking the Gilt off the Conservatives’ Gingerbread: The April 2011 Finnish General Election’, West European Politics, 34:6, 2011, pp. 1284-1295.

Jorge Miguel Fernandes, ‘The 2011 Portuguese Election: Looking for a Way Out’, West European Politics, 34:6, 2011, pp. 1296-1303.

Conor Little, ‘The General Election of 2011 in the Republic of Ireland: All Changed Utterly?’, West European Politics, 34:6, 2011, pp. 1304-1313.

Martín Tanaka, [Peru} ‘A Vote for Moderate Change’, Journal of Democracy, vol. 22, no. 4, October 2011, pp. 75-83.

Steven Levitsky, [Peru} ‘A Surprising Left Turn’, Journal of Democracy, vol. 22, no. 4, October 2011, pp. 84-94.

John Fuh-Sheng Hsieh, ‘The Logic of Semi-Presidentialism: Loopholes, History, and Political Conflict’, Issues & Studies, Vol. 47 No. 1, 2011/03, pp. 57-78.

John Power, Fiducial Governance: An Australian republic for the new millennium, ANU E Press, available at: http://epress.anu.edu.au/fiducial_citation.html

John Power, ‘Fiducial Governance: Heads of State and Monitory Branches’, Administration & Society, online first

Yu-chung Shen, ‘Using the Veto Players Theory to Explain the Stability of Semi-Presidential Regimes’, International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, Vol. 1, No. 9, July 2011, 87-102.

John Coakley, ‘Kingdoms, republics and people’s democracies: legitimacy and national identity in European constitutions’, National Identities, Vol. 13, No. 3, September 2011, 267-285.

Tapio Raunio, ‘Semi-presidentialism and the Dual Executive in EU Affairs: What Can We Learn from the Finnish Experience?’, in Thomas Persson & Matti Wiberg (eds) Parliamentary Government in the Nordic Countries at a Crossroads: Coping with Challenges from Europeanisation and Presidentialisation. Santérus Academic Press, Stockholm, 2011, pp. 301-325.

Guy-Erik Isaksson, ‘Presidentialisation of Parliamentary Systems: Reality or Illusion?’, in Thomas Persson & Matti Wiberg (eds) Parliamentary Government in the Nordic Countries at a Crossroads: Coping with Challenges from Europeanisation and Presidentialisation. Santérus Academic Press, Stockholm, 2011, pp. 223-243.

Nick Hewlett, The Sarkozy Phenomenon, Exeter, Imprint Academic, 2011

Richard Sakwa, The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Daniel Treisman, ‘Presidential Popularity in a Hybrid Regime: Russia under Yeltsin and Putin’, American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 55, No. 3, July 2011, pp. 590–609

Sergiu Gherghina and George Jiglău, ‘The Ideological Institutionalization of the Romanian Party System’, Romanian Journal of Political Science, 2011, vol. 11 no. 1, pp. 71-90.

Paulo Gorjão, ‘Taur Matan Ruak: the first candidate for the 2012 presidential elections in Timor Leste?’, IPRIS Viewpoints 76, available at: http://www.ipris.org

Gerhard Seibert ‘São Tomé and Príncipe: in the third attempt and after twenty years, a former autocrat returns to the presidency’, IPRIS Lusophone Countries Bulletin 22, available at: http://www.ipris.org/

Peter Stafford, ‘The 2011 general election in Ireland: the political impact of the Irish recession’, Representation, 47:3, 2011, pp. 343-356.

Robert Elgie, Semi-Presidentialism. Sub-Types And Democratic Performance, Oxford University Press, 2011.

Robert Elgie and Iain McMenamin, ‘Explaining the Onset of Cohabitation under Semi-presidentialism’, in Political Studies, Volume 59, Issue 3, pages 616–635, October 2011.

José Antonio Cheibub Fernando Limongi, ‘From Conflict to Coordination: Perspectives on the Study of Executive-Legislative Relations, RIEL, Belo Horizonte, n.1, 2010 (available at: http://www6.ufrgs.br/revistariel/ojs/index.php/riel/article/view/7/5).

José Antonio Cheibub, Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsburg, ‘Latin American Presidentialism in Comparative and Historical Perspective, Texas Law Review, June 2011, Vol. 89 Issue 7, pp. 1707-1739.

King, Ronald F. and Paul E. Sum, eds., Romania under Basescu: Aspirations, Achievements, and Frustrations during his First Presidential Term, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011 (includes Chapter Six: Cosmin Gabriel Marian and Ronald F. King, A War of Two Palaces: Semi-Presidential Government and Strategic Conflict).

Ömer Faruk Ertürk, ‘Winner Pays It All: Who is Loser Then? The Current Parliamentarism In Search of Presidentialism in Turkey’, Turkish Journal of Politics, Volume 2, Number 1, Summer 2011 (available at http://tjp.fatih.edu.tr/docs/articles/91.pdf).

Recep  Türk, ‘Feasibility of Presidential System in Turkey’, Turkish Journal of Politics, Volume 2, Number 1, Summer 2011 (available at http://tjp.fatih.edu.tr/docs/articles/96.pdf).

Conceição Pequito Teixeira and André Freire, ‘Decline, Transformation and Trust in Parliaments: the Portuguese Case in a Longitudinal and Comparative Perspective’, RIEL, Belo Horizonte, n.1, 2010 (available at: http://www6.ufrgs.br/revistariel/ojs/index.php/riel/article/view/5/2).

Danica Fink-Hafner, Damjan Lajh and Alenka Krašovec, ‘Electoral Engineering and its Impact in the Former Yugoslav Republics’, Politics in Central Europe, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 7-34, 2011 (available at: http://www.politicsince.eu/documents/file/2011_06.pdf#page=8).

Michal Pink, The 2010 Slovak Elections in the Light of Previous Results, European Electoral Studies, Vol. 6 (2011), No. 1, pp. 3–21 (available at http://ispo.fss.muni.cz/uploads/EVS/011/EVS_2011_01.pdf)

Octavio Amorim Neto and David Samuels, ‘Democratic Regimes and Cabinet Politics: a Global Perspective’, RIEL, Belo Horizonte, n.1, 2010 (available at: http://www6.ufrgs.br/revistariel/ojs/index.php/riel/article/view/6/3).

Jorge Miguel Fernandes, review of David J. Samuels and Matthew Shugart, Presidents, Parties, and Prime Ministers: How the Separation of Powers Affects Party Organization and Behavior, in West European Politics, vol. 34, no. 5, 2011, pp. 1134-1135.