I am away at the ECPR Joint Sessions in Münster next week. I hope to see some of you there. Anyway, the next post will be Friday 26 March. In the meantime, here are some new semi-presidential-related publications:

Gerhard Seibert, ‘São Tomé and Príncipe: Particularities of the presidential party’, IPRIS Lusophone Countries Bulletin 3, January 2010, available at: http://www.ipris.org/

Kai Thaler , ‘Can political inclusion lead to reform implementation in Guinea-Bissau?’, IPRIS Lusophone Countries Bulletin 4, February 2010, available at: http://www.ipris.org/

‘Romania Twenty Years On’, 4 articles, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Volume 43, Issue 1, March 2010.

Special issue of Politique africaine, ‘Fin de règne au Gabon’, no. 115, October 2009

Steve Hess, ‘Protests, Parties, and Presidential Succession: Competing Theories of Color Revolutions in Armenia and Kyrgyzstan’, Problems of Post-Communism, Jan/Feb 2010, vol. 57, issue 1, pp. 28-39.

Irina S. Khmelko, Charles R. Wise, Trevor L. Brown, ‘Committees and Legislative Strengthening: The Growing Influence of Committees in Ukraine’s Legislative Process’, Journal of Legislative Studies, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 73-95.

Barbara Junisbai , ‘A Tale of Two Kazakhstans: Sources of Political Cleavage and Conflict in the Post-Soviet Period’, Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 62, no. 2, 2010, pp. 235-269.

Jørgen Møller, Svend-Erik Skaaning, ‘Post-communist regime types: Hierarchies across attributes and space’, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Volume 43, Issue 1, March 2010, pp. 51-71.

Marco Lisi, ‘The Renewal of the Socialist Majority: The 2009 Portuguese Legislative Elections’, West European Politics, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 381 – 388

Pierre Avril, ‘France: retrieving parliamentary control (after the constitutional reform of 2008)’, Jus Politicum, no. 3, available at: http://www.juspoliticum.com/France-retrieving-parliamentary.html