Kissane, Bill


Dr Bill Kissane  

Department

Position held

Department of Government

Senior Lecturer in Politics

Experience keywords:

reconstruction; democratization; civil wars

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Bill Kissane is finishing a research monograph Constitutionalism and Democracy in Modern Ireland, and also working on two book length studies of civil war and post-civil war reconstruction.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

Creative Industries and CultureLawPolicy and Regulatory Bodies

Countries and regions to which research relates:

Turkey; Ireland

Languages:

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

Media experience:

Has written for mainstream pressRadio

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 7900

Publications

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2013

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. ISBN 9781107610088

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). pp. 38-57. ISSN 1353-7113

Kissane, Bill (2013) Ideas in conflict: nationalism and the comparative study of civil war. Nationalism and ethnic politics, ISSN 1353-7113

2012

Kissane, Bill (2012) Book review: contesting democracy: political ideas in twentieth century Europe by Jan-Werner Müller. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

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, pp. 221-241. ISBN 9780716531302

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). pp. 41-54. ISSN 1864-1385

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. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden, Germany, pp. 145-154. ISBN 9783531185811

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

Kissane, Bill (2012) Irish Civil War, 1922-1923. Oxford University Press

2011

Kissane, Bill (2011) Book review: the destructors: the story of Northern Ireland’s lost Peace Process. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

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) The marriage of state and nation in European constitutions. Nations and nationalism, 16 (1). pp. 49-67. ISSN 1354-5078

Kissane, Bill and Sitter, Nick (2010) National identity and constitutionalism in Europe: introduction. Nations and nationalism, 16 (1). pp. 1-5. 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, Oxford, UK, pp. 17-33. ISBN 9780415481038

Bulsara, Hament and Kissane, Bill (2009) Arend Lijphart and the transformation of Irish democracy. West European politics, 32 (1). pp. 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 pp. 77-102. ISSN 0163-6545

2008

Kissane, Bill (2008) Must Labour wait forever? Saothar: journal of the Irish Labour History Society, 33 pp. 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, pp. 15-40. ISBN 9780415446471

2006

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

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

2005

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

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

2004

Kissane, Bill (2004) The legislative response to political extremism in the Irish Free State 1922-39. Irish historical studies, 34 (134). pp. 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). pp. 969-985. ISSN 0010-4140

2003

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

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

2002

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

2001

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

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

2000

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

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

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

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