Kissane, Bill

Dr Bill Kissane  

Department

Position held

Associate Professor in Politics

 

Experience keywords:

Comparative Constitutionalism; civil wars; democratization; reconstruction

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Bill Kissane is currently working on two books on civil wars and their aftermaths. The first Beyond Internal War: Reconstruction, National Identity and Armed Conflict in Europe 1918-2012 will be published by Penn Press in 2014. It is an edited volume with chapters written by anthropologists, historians, political scientists, and sociologists.

The second, Civil War: the Contemporary Challenge, is under contract with Oxford University Press and is due to be published in 2014. It focusses on the wave of civil wars the world has experienced since 1945. Specific chapters focus on definitions of civil war, patterns, causes, consequence, and recovery from civil war.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

Creative Industries and Culture; Law; Policy and Regulatory Bodies

Countries and regions to which research relates:

Ireland; Turkey

Languages:

Finnish [Spoken: Basic, Written: Basic]; Spanish [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: N/A]; Turkish [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Intermediate]

Media experience:

Has written for mainstream press; Radio

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 7900

Publications

2016

Brown, Nathan J. and Kissane, Bill and Madeley, John (2016) Constitutionalism, religion, and education American Behavioral Scientist, 60 (8). 1013-1035. ISSN 0002-7642

Kissane, Bill (2016) Nations torn asunder: the challenge of civil war Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780199602872

2015

Kissane, Bill (2015) Civil wars In: Wright, James D., (ed.) International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences. Elsevier, Oxford, UK , 713-718. ISBN 9780080970875

2014

Kissane, Bill, ed (2014) After civil war: division, reconstruction, and reconciliation in contemporary Europe University of Pennsylvania Press , Baltimore, USA. ISBN 9780812246520

Kissane, Bill (2014) After Atatürk: three perspectives on political change in Turkey Review of Politics, 76 (2). 293-307. ISSN 0034-6705

Kissane, Bill (2014) Few have ever doubted the quality of Robert Dahl’s work LSE American Politics and Policy (1 Mar 2014) Blog entry

2013

Kissane, Bill and Sitter, Nick (2013) Ideas in conflict: the nationalism literature and the comparative study of civil war Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 19 (1). 38-57. ISSN 1353-7113

Kissane, Bill (2013) Victory in defeat?: national identity after civil war in Finland and Ireland In: Hall, John A. and Malešević, Siniša, (eds.) Nationalism and War. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 321-340. ISBN 9781107034754

2012

Kissane, Bill and Mansouri, Wassim (2012) Principles of constitutional drafting Westminster Foundation for Democracy, London, UK.

Kissane, Bill and Elagati, Mohamed and Fahmi, Georges (2012) Constitutions and Processes of Democratic Transition Rwafead, Cairo, Egypt.

Kissane, Bill (2012) A light that failed: the 1922 constitution in the European context In: Heffernan, Brian, (ed.) Life on the Fringe?: Ireland and Europe 1800-1922. Irish Academic Press, Ireland, 221-241. ISBN 9780716531302

Kissane, Bill (2012) Is the Irish referendum a majoritarian device? In: Marxer, Wilfred and Kaufmann, B and Pallinger, Z. T and Schiller, T, (eds.) Direct Democracy and Minorities. Direct democracy in modern Europe, 3 (3). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden, Germany, 145-154. ISBN 9783531185811

Kissane, Bill (2012) Book review: contesting democracy: political ideas in twentieth century Europe by Jan-Werner Müller British Politics and Policy at LSE (4 Mar 2012) Blog entry

Kissane, Bill (2012) Yandaş tahkimat ve Anayasacilik: Irlandali bir bakiş Toplum Ve Bilim, 123. 57-76. ISSN 1300-9354

Kissane, Bill (2012) Electing not to fight: elections as a mechanism of deradicalisation after the Irish Civil War 1922–1938 International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 6 (1). 41-54. ISSN 1864-1385

Kissane, Bill (2012) Irish Civil War, 1922-1923 Oxford Bibliographies Online: Military History.

2011

Kissane, Bill (2011) Book review: the destructors: the story of Northern Ireland’s lost Peace Process British Politics and Policy at LSE (27 Nov 2011) Blog entry

Kissane, Bill (2011) The violence on London’s streets is less political and less structured than has been the case in Northern Ireland. It is the result of decades of social and economic deprivation and inequality British Politics and Policy at LSE (9 Aug 2011) Blog entry

Kissane, Bill (2011) The debate in the UK about codifying our constitution is now less fractious: but looking overseas can help us to understand why this discussion should continue British Politics and Policy at LSE (21 Jul 2011) Blog entry

Kissane, Bill (2011) New beginnings: constitutionalism and democracy in modern Ireland University College Dublin Press, Dublin, Ireland. ISBN 9781906359515

2010

Kissane, Bill and Sitter, Nick (2010) National identity and constitutionalism in Europe: introduction Nations and Nationalism, 16 (1). 1-5. ISSN 1354-5078

Kissane, Bill and Sitter, Nick (2010) The marriage of state and nation in European constitutions Nations and Nationalism, 16 (1). 49-67. ISSN 1354-5078

2009

Kissane, Bill (2009) From people's veto to instrument of elite consensus: the referendum experience in Ireland In: Setälä, Maija and Schiller, Theo, (eds.) Referendums and Representative Democracy: Responsiveness, Accountability and Deliberation. Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science. Routledge, Oxford, UK, 17-33. ISBN 9780415481038

Bulsara, Hament and Kissane, Bill (2009) Arend Lijphart and the transformation of Irish democracy West European Politics, 32 (1). 172-196. ISSN 1743-9655

Kissane, Bill (2009) The constitutional revolution that never was: democratic radicalism and the Sinn Féin movement Radical History Review, 104. 77-102. ISSN 0163-6545

2008

Kissane, Bill (2008) Must Labour wait forever? Saothar: Journal of the Irish Labour History Society, 33. 121-126. ISSN 0332-1169

2007

Kissane, Bill (2007) The not-so-amazing case of Irish democracy In: McGrath, Conor and O'Malley, Eoin, (eds.) Irish Political Studies Reader: Key Contributions. Routledge, Oxford, UK, 15-40. ISBN 9780415446471

2006

Kissane, Bill (2006) Review essay: Power-sharing as a form of democracy for Northern Ireland Review of Politics, 68 (4). 663-674. ISSN 0034-6705

Kissane, Bill and Sitter, Nick (2006) The comparative study of civil war: towards a dynamic model 1/2006. The Centre for European and Asian Studies, Norwegian School of Management, Oslo, Norway.

2005

Kissane, Bill (2005) The politics of the Irish Civil War Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199273553

Kissane, Bill and Sitter, Nick (2005) Civil wars, party politics and the consolidation of regimes in twentieth century Europe Democratization, 12 (2). 183-201. ISSN 1351-0347

2004

Kissane, Bill (2004) The legislative response to political extremism in the Irish Free State 1922-39 Irish Historical Studies, 34 (134). 156-174. ISSN 0021-1214

Kissane, Bill (2004) Democratization, state formation, and civil war in Finland and Ireland: a reflection on the democratic peace hypothesis Comparative Political Studies, 37 (8). 969-985. ISSN 0010-4140

2003

Kissane, Bill (2003) The chimera of state neutrality in a secularising Ireland West European Politics, 26 (1). 73-94. ISSN 0140-2382

Kissane, Bill (2003) The doctrine of self-determination and the Irish move to independence, 1916-1922 Journal of Political Ideologies, 8 (3). 327-346. ISSN 1356-9317

2002

Kissane, Bill (2002) Explaining Irish democracy UCD Press, Dublin, IRL. ISBN 1900621703 pb

2001

Kissane, Bill (2001) Democratic consolidation and government changeover in the Irish Free State Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 39 (1). 1-22. ISSN 1466-2043

Kissane, Bill (2001) Decommissioning as an issue in the Irish Civil War Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 1 (1). 8-16. ISSN 1473-8481

2000

Kissane, Bill (2000) Explaining the intractability of the Irish civil war Civil Wars, 3 (2). 65-88. ISSN 1369-8249

Kissane, Bill (2000) Nineteenth-century nationalism in Finland and Ireland: a comparative analysis Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 6 (2). 25-42. ISSN 1353-7113

Kissane, Bill (2000) Civil society under strain: intermediary organisations and the Irish civil war Irish Political Studies, 15 (1). 1-23. ISSN 0790-7184

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