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.