From the archive
This post consolidates the list of new publications on presidents that we have identified throughout the year
Books
Thomas F. Remington, Presidential Decrees in Russia:
A Comparative Perspective, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Rui Graça Feijó (ed.), O Semi-Presidencialismo Timorense, Lisbon: Almedina, includes a chapter by our own Lydia Beuman
Vít Hloušek, et al., Presidents above Parties? Presidents in Central and Eastern Europe, their Formal Competencies and Informal Power, International Institute of Political Science, ISBN: 978-80-210-6687-8, 2013.
Jacques Gerstlé and Raul Magni Berton (eds.), 2012, La campagne présidentielle: L’observation des médias, des électeurs et des candidats, Paris: L’Harmattan/Pepper, 2014.
Philip Abbott, Bad Presidents: Failure in the White House, London, Palgrave, 2013.
Jocelyn Evans and Gilles Ivaldi, The 2012 French Presidential Elections: The Inevitable Alternation, London, Palgrave, 2014.
Stephen Jones, Georgia: A political history since independence, London IB Tauris, 2013.
Detlef Nolte and Almut Schilling-Vacaflor (eds.), New Constitutionalism in Latin America: Promises and Practices, London: Ashgate.
Articles
Guy Emerson, ‘Strong Presidentialism and the Limits of Foreign Policy Success: Explaining Cooperation Between Brazil and Venezuela’, International Studies Perspectives, Article first published online: 9 May 2014, DOI: 10.1111/insp.12071
Valeria Palanza and Gisela Sin, ‘Veto Bargaining and the Legislative Process in Multiparty Presidential Systems’, Comparative Political Studies, 2014, 47(5), 766-792.
Vlastimil Havlík, Milan Hrubes and Marek Pecina, ‘For Rule of Law, Political Plurality, and a Just Society: Use of the Legislative Veto by President Václav Havel’, East European Politics and Societies 2014 28(2): 440-460.
Mikolaj Czesnik, ‘In the Shadow of Smolensk Catastrophe−−The 2010 Presidential Election in Poland’, East European Politics and Societies published online 14 May 2014 DOI: 10.1177/0888325414532492.
Naomi Girardeau and Ian Taylor, ‘Unconstitutional Changes of Government in Africa: the Case of Madagascar’, Journal of African Union Studies (JoAUS) Vol 1, Issues 2 & 3, 2012, pp. 77-98.
Sun-Woo Lee, ‘The Discordant Combination of Civil-Law Prosecution System and Presidentialism: A Theoretical Framework’, Journal of Politics and Law, vol. 7, no. 2, available at:http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jpl/article/view/37463
Natalie Mossa and Alasdair O’Hare ‘Staging democracy: Kenya’s televised presidential debates’, Journal of Eastern African Studies, Volume 8, Issue 1, 2014, pp. 78-92.
Charles Kwarteng, ‘Swords into Ploughshares: The Judicial Challenge of Ghana’s 2012 Presidential Election Results’, The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, Volume 103, Issue 1, 2014, pp. 83-93.
Zenonas Norkus, ‘Parliamentarism Versus Semi-Presidentialism in The Baltic States: The Causes and Consequences Of Differences in The Constitutional Frameworks’, Baltic Journal of Political Science. December 2013, No 2, pp. 7-28.
Special issue of Revue internationale de politique compare, Pouvoirs présidentiels, gouvernance et milieux d’affaires dans les États post-soviétiques et africains, Vol. 20, 2013/3.
Timothy J. Colton and Henry E. Hale, ‘Putin’s Uneasy Return and Hybrid Regime Stability: The 2012 Russian Election Studies Survey’, Problems of Post-Communism, vol. 61, no. 2, March–April 2014, pp. 3–22.
Natalia Moen-Larsen, ‘Dear Mr President’. The blogosphere as arena for communication between people and power’, Communist and Post-Communist Studies 47 (2014) 27–37.
Ismail Aydıngun and Aysegul Aydıngun, ‘Nation-State Building in Kyrgyzstan and Transition to the Parliamentary System’, Parliamentary Affairs (2014) 67, 391–414.
Elizabeth A. Stein and Marisa Kellam ‘Programming Presidential Agendas: Partisan and Media Environments That Lead Presidents to Fight Crime and Corruption’, Political Communication, Volume 31, Issue 1, 2014, pp. 25-52.
Jan Kudrna, ‘The Question Of Conducting Direct Elections Of The President In The Czech Republic (A Live Issue for Already 20 Years)’, Jurisprudencija, Jurisprudence, 2011, 18(4), pp. 1295–1321.
Yujen Chou, ‘Constitutional Implication of the 2012 Elections in Taiwan’, International Journal of China Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1, April 2014, pp. 71-87.
Dirk Kotzé, ‘The Government of National Unity as a Transitional Power- Sharing Institution in Madagascar’, Southern African Peace and Security Studies 2 (1), 9-22.
Muhammad Rizwan, Muhammad Arshad, Muhammad Waqar, ‘Revitalization of Parliamentary Democracy in Pakistan under 18th Amendment’, IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS) Volume 19, Issue 2, Ver. II (Feb. 2014), pp. 149-156.
Steffen Ganghof, ‘Is the ‘Constitution of Equality’ Parliamentary, Presidential or Hybrid?’, Political Studies, early view, doi: 10.1111/1467-9248.12124.
Josep Colomer ‘Elected Kings with the Name of Presidents. On the origins of presidentialism in the United States and Latin America’, Revista Lationamericana de Politica Comparada 7 (2013), pp. 79-97. Available at: http://works.bepress.com/josep_colomer/64/
Manuel Guțan, ‘Romanian Semi-Presidentialism In Historical Context’, Romanian Journal Of Comparative Law, Volume 3 (issue 2) 2012, pp. 275-303.
John Power, ‘Comparative governance and republicanism’, Australian Journal of Political Science, 49:1, 133-139, DOI: 10.1080/10361146.2013.875119.
Oleg Zaznaev, ‘Understanding Semi-Presidentialism in Political Science: A Review of the Latest Debate’, World Applied Sciences Journal 30 (2): 195-198, 2014, available at: http://www.idosi.org/wasj/wasj30(2)14/12.pdf.
Zenonas Norkus, ‘Parliamentarism Versus Semi-Presidentialism In The Baltic States: The Causes And Consequences Of Differences In The Constitutional Frameworks’, Baltic Journal Of Political Science, December 2013, No 2, pp. 7-28. Available at: http://www.vu.lt/leidyba/dokumentai/zurnalai/Baltic%20journal%20of%20political%20science/BJPS%202013%202/07-28.pdf.
Vlastimil Havlík, Milan Hrubes and Marek Pecina. 2014. ‘For Rule of Law, Political Plurality, and a Just Society: Use of the Legislative Veto by President Václav Havel’. East European Politics and Societies. [online first] DOI: 10.1177/0888325414523040
Peter Horváth, ‘The Role of the President in the Context of the Political Changes in Slovakia’, Slovak Journal of Political Sciences, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 74-86. Available at: http://spr.fsv.ucm.sk/rocnik-14/cislo-1/slovenska_politologicka_revue_1_2014.pdf#page=76
Natalie Mossa and Alasdair O’Hare ‘Staging democracy: Kenya’s televised presidential debates’, Journal of Eastern African Studies, Volume 8, Issue 1, 2014, pp. 78-92.
Stephen Chan, ‘Presidentialism and Vice Presidentialism in a Commonwealth Country: A Cameo in Zambia’, The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, Volume 102, Issue 5, 2013, pp. 431-444.
Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi, ‘Presidential Immunity from Criminal Prosecution in the Ugandan Constitution: Drafting History and Emerging Jurisprudence’, African Journal of International and Comparative Law. Volume 22, Page 140-154 DOI 10.3366/ajicl.2014.0084
Charles Kwarteng, ‘Swords into Ploughshares: The Judicial Challenge of Ghana’s 2012 Presidential Election Results’, The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, Volume 103, Issue 1, 2014, pp. 83-93.
Special issue on the origins of presidentialism in Latin America and comparisons of presidentialism and parliamentarism in Latin American Review of Comparative Politics / Revista Latinoamericana de Politica Comparada; July 2013, Vol. 7.
Shaun N. Williams-Wyche, ‘An empirical test of presidentialism’s effect on party competition’, Electoral Studies, Volume 33, March 2014, Pages 166–174.
Jae Hyeok Shin, ‘Cabinet Duration in Presidential Democracies’, Political Science Quarterly, Volume 128, Issue 2, pages 317–339, Summer 2013.
Chiou, F.-Y. and Rothenberg, L. S., The Elusive Search for Presidential Power. American Journal of Political Science. doi: 10.1111/ajps.12057, 2013.
Oleksii Sydorchuk, ‘The Impact of Semi-Presidentialism on Democratic Consolidation in Poland and Ukraine’, Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Volume 22, Number 1 / Winter 2014
, pp. 117-144.
Cristina Manolache, ‘Post-Communist Romania: A Peculiar Case of Divided Government’, Studia Politica. Romanian Political Science Review, Issue no.3 /2013, pp. 427-439.
Laura Tedesco and Rut Diamint, ‘Latin American Democracy. What to Do with the Leaders?’, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 33, Issue 1, pages 31–45, January 2014.
Mario D. Serrafero, ‘Argentina: Tres Reformas Institucionales Del Kirchnerismo’, Revista Aragonesa de Administración Pública, núm. 41-42, Zaragoza, 2013, pp. 449-468.
Leiv Marsteintredet, ‘Explaining variation of executive instability in presidential regimes: Presidential interruptions in Latin America’, International Political Science Review, Published online before print January 7, 2013, doi: 10.1177/0192512112459548.
Leiv Marsteintredet, Mariana Llanos, and Detlef Nolte, ‘Paraguay and The Politics of impeachment’, Journal of Democracy Volume 24, Number 4 October 2013, pp. 110-123.
Vildan Iyigüngör, ‘Political System Discussions in Turkish Media’, Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, vol. 4, no. 10, October 2013, pp. 204-208.
Yogita Sharma, ‘Imperatives for Transition from Parliamentary Democracy to Presidential Democracy in India’, Journal of Politics & Governance, Vol. 2, No. 1/2 June 2013, pp. 289-294.
Chapters in books
Henry Hale, ‘The Informal Politics of Formal Constitutions: Rethinking the Effects of ‘Presidentialism’ and ‘Parliamentarism in the Cases of Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, and Ukraine’, in Tom Ginsburg and Alberto Simpser (eds.), Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp. 218-244.
Jennifer Gandhi, ‘The Role of Presidential Power in Authoritarian Elections’, in Tom Ginsburg and Alberto Simpser (eds.), Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp. 199-217.
José Antonio Cheibub and Fernando Limongi, ‘The structure of legislative-executive relations: Asia in comparative perspective’, in Rosalind Dixon and Tom Ginsburg (eds.), Comparative Constitutional Law in Asia, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 123-162.
Luca Mezzetti, ‘The Irish Form of Government: A Merely Apparent Semi- Presidentialism’, in Giuseppe Franco Ferrari and John O’Dowd, 75 Years of the Constitution of Ireland: An Irish-Italian Dialog, Dublin Clarus Press.
Kari Palonen, ‘Parliamentarism as a European Type of Polity: Constructing the Presidentialism versus Parliamentarism Debate in Walter Bagehot’s English Constitution’, in Claudia Wiesner, Mieke Schmidt-Gleim (eds.), The Meanings of Europe: Changes and Exchanges of a Contested Concept, Routledge, 2014.
Election reports and reviews of the year
Electoral Studies, vol. 34, June 2014, presidential and/or legislative election reports on: Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Chile, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Mexico, Nicaragua, Romania, South Korea, and Tunisia.
Clifton W. Sherrill, ‘Why Hassan Rouhani Won Iran’s 2013 Presidential Election’, Middle East Policy, Volume 21, Issue 2, pages 64–75, Summer 2014.
In Asian Survey (vol. 54, no. 1, 2014), there are annual reviews on politics in 2013 for the following countries with presidents: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Russia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and Timor-Leste
In Electoral Studies (vol. 34, no. 1, 2014) there are election reports on presidential and/or parliamentary elections in the following countries with presidents: Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Chile, Ecuador, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Mexico, Nicaragua, Romania, South Korea, and Venezuela!
Special issue of Est-Europa with annual reviews on politics in 2012 for the following countries with presidents (in French): Albania, Bosnia-Herzogovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Serbia, and Slovenia. Plus, there is a colloquium on the introduction of the direct election of the president in the Czech Republic and a comparison with France. Available at: http://www.est-europa.univ-pau.fr/est-europa-la-revue/dernier-numero.html
Marek Rybář, ‘The Czech Presidential Elections, January 2013: Towards a More Powerful Head of State?’, Electoral Studies [online first] doi: 10.1016/j.electstud.2014.02.004.
Matthew Frear, ‘The parliamentary elections in Belarus, September 2012’, Electoral Studies, vol. 33, no.1, pp. 350-353.
Peter Spáč, ‘The 2012 parliamentary elections in Slovakia’, Electoral Studies, vol. 33, no.1, pp. 343-346.
Erik S. Herron, The parliamentary elections in Ukraine, October 2012’, Electoral Studies, vol. 33, no.1, pp. 353-356.
Xabier Meilán, ‘Dominican Republic’s 2012 presidential election’, Electoral Studies, vol. 33, no.1, pp. 347-350.
Electoral Studies, vol. 33, no. 1, 2014 – Slovakia 2012 parliamentary; Dominican republic 2012 presidential; Belarus 2012 parliamentary; Ukraine 2012 parliamentary
Electoral Studies, vol. 32, no. 4, 2013 – Senegal 2012 parliamentary
Online papers
Claire Wright, ‘Executives and emergencies: presidential decrees of exception in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru’, available at: http://dspace.uah.es/dspace/handle/10017/19987
Štěpán Drahokoupil, ‘Reflections on the current political crisis in the Czech Republic: The introduction of direct presidential elections and the operation of a semi-presidential system’, http://www.cz.boell.org/web/52-1304.html
Štěpán Drahokoupil, ‘Appointing a government under the shadow of an institutional controversy over the role of the president’, available at: http://www.cz.boell.org/web/52-1382.html
О. В. СИДОРЧУК, ТРЕТІЙ ТИП РЕСПУБЛІКАНСЬКОГО ПРАВЛІННЯ: ЧИ Є УКРАЇНА НАПІВПРЕЗИДЕНТСЬКОЮ РЕСПУБЛІКОЮ?, available at: http://www.ekmair.ukma.kiev.ua/bitstream/123456789/2779/1/Sydorchuk_tretii_typ_respublikanskoho_pravlinnia.pdf
Giorgi Alasania. “The principles of constitutional government in the European Union” International Law, 2013 (2013). Available at: http://works.bepress.com/giorgi_alasania/3