Petra Schleiter and Edward Morgan-Jones, ‘Constitutional Power and Competing Risks: Monarchs, Presidents, Prime Ministers, and the Termination of East and West European Cabinets’, American Political Science Review, Volume 103, Issue 3, August 2009, pp 496-512.
Bryan J. Dettrey and Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer, ‘Voter Turnout in Presidential Democracies ‘, Comparative Political Studies, 2009, vol. 42, no. 10, pp. 1317-1338.
Philipp Kuntz and Mark R. Thompson, ‘More than Just the Final Straw: Stolen Elections as Revolutionary Triggers’, Comparative Politics, Volume 41, Number 3, April 2009, pp. (case studies of Serbia, Georgia, and Ukraine).
David W. Rivera and Sharon Werning Rivera, ‘Yeltsin, Putin, and Clinton: Presidential Leadership and Russian Democratization in Comparative Perspective’, Perspectives on Politics (2009), vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 591-610.
Henri Myrttinen, ‘Timor-Leste: A Relapsing “Success” Story’, Taiwan Journal of Democracy, vol. 5, no. 1, July 2009, pp. 219-239. Free to download: http://www.tfd.org.tw/english/tjd.php
Christof Hartmann, ‘Democracy as a Fortuitous By-product of Independence: UN Intervention and Democratization in Namibia’, Taiwan Journal of Democracy, vol. 5, no. 1, July 2009, pp. 27-50. Free to download: http://www.tfd.org.tw/english/tjd.php
Rachel Hayman, ‘Going in the “Right” Direction? Promotion of Democracy in Rwanda since 1990’, Taiwan Journal of Democracy, vol. 5, no. 1, July 2009, pp. 51-75. Free to download: http://www.tfd.org.tw/english/tjd.php
Carrie Manning and Monica Malbrough, ‘Learning the Right Lessons from Mozambique’s Transition to Peace’, Taiwan Journal of Democracy, vol. 5, no. 1, July 2009, pp. 77-91. Free to download: http://www.tfd.org.tw/english/tjd.php
Youcef Bouandel, ‘Algeria’s Presidential Election of April 2009’, Mediterranean Politics, vol. 14, no. 2,2009, pp. 247-253.
Lavinia Stan and Diane Vancea, ‘Old Wine in New Bottles. The Romanian Elections of 2008’, Problems of Post-Communism, vol. 56, no. 5, September/October 2009, pp. 47–61.
Robert Elgie, review of José Antonio Cheibub, Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, and Democracy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, in Perspectives on Politics (2009), vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 201-202.