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  • Kissane, Bill (2025). The state as ‘guardian of the common good’ and the constitution of Ireland. Irish Political Studies, 40(3), 371 - 393. https://doi.org/10.1080/07907184.2025.2472173 picture_as_pdf
  • Kissane, Bill (2023). Three conceptions of Civil War politics. Éire-Ireland, 58(3-4), 101 - 138. https://doi.org/10.1353/eir.2023.a910481 picture_as_pdf
  • Kissane, Bill (2022). Was there a civil war in Anatolia between the Ottoman collapse in World War One and the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923? Journal of Modern European History, 20(4), 452 - 467. https://doi.org/10.1177/16118944221130213 picture_as_pdf
  • Kissane, Bill (2021). The geographical spread of state executions during the Irish Civil War, 1922-1923. Social Science History, 45(1), 165 - 186. https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2020.43 picture_as_pdf
  • Kissane, Bill (2020). Catholicism and the concept of ‘the State’ in the (1937) Irish Constitution. Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, https://doi.org/10.1093/ojlr/rwaa028 picture_as_pdf
  • Kissane, Bill (2020). Yael Tamir, why nationalism. Nations and Nationalism, 26(3), 529 - 530. https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12617
  • Kissane, Bill (2020). On the shock of civil war: cultural trauma and national identity in Finland and Ireland. Nations and Nationalism, 26(1), 22 - 43. https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12526 picture_as_pdf
  • Kissane, Bill (2017). Book review: time, place and milieu: an 'in-between' approach to political violence. Journal of Political Power, https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2017.1284162
  • Brown, Nathan J., Kissane, Bill, Madeley, John (2016). Constitutionalism, religion, and education. American Behavioral Scientist, 60(8), 1013-1035. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764215615352
  • Kissane, Bill (2014). After Atatürk: three perspectives on political change in Turkey. Review of Politics, 76(2), 293-307. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670514000096
  • Kissane, Bill, Sitter, Nick (2013). Ideas in conflict: the nationalism literature and the comparative study of civil war. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 19(1), 38-57. https://doi.org/10.1080/13537113.2013.761884
  • 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.
  • Kissane, Bill (2012). Irish Civil War, 1922-1923. Oxford Bibliographies Online: Military History, https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199791279-0042
  • Kissane, Bill (2012). Yandaş tahkimat ve Anayasacilik: Irlandali bir bakiş. Toplum Ve Bilim, 123, 57-76.
  • Kissane, Bill, Sitter, Nick (2010). National identity and constitutionalism in Europe: introduction. Nations and Nationalism, 16(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8129.2010.00431.x
  • Kissane, Bill, Sitter, Nick (2010). The marriage of state and nation in European constitutions. Nations and Nationalism, 16(1), 49-67. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8129.2010.00434.x
  • Bulsara, Hament, Kissane, Bill (2009). Arend Lijphart and the transformation of Irish democracy. West European Politics, 32(1), 172-196. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402380802509933
  • Kissane, Bill (2009). The constitutional revolution that never was: democratic radicalism and the Sinn Féin movement. Radical History Review, 104, 77-102. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2008-069
  • Kissane, Bill (2008). Must Labour wait forever? Saothar: Journal of the Irish Labour History Society, 33, 121-126.
  • Kissane, Bill (2006). Review essay: Power-sharing as a form of democracy for Northern Ireland. Review of Politics, 68(4), 663-674. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670506000258
  • Kissane, Bill, Sitter, Nick (2005). Civil wars, party politics and the consolidation of regimes in twentieth century Europe. Democratization, 12(2), 183-201. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510340500069279
  • 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. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414004267983
  • Kissane, Bill (2004). The legislative response to political extremism in the Irish Free State 1922-39. Irish Historical Studies, 34(134), 156-174.
  • Kissane, Bill (2003). The chimera of state neutrality in a secularising Ireland. West European Politics, 26(1), 73-94. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402380412331300207
  • Kissane, Bill (2003). The doctrine of self-determination and the Irish move to independence, 1916-1922. Journal of Political Ideologies, 8(3), 327-346. https://doi.org/10.1080/1356931032000131200
  • Kissane, Bill (2001). Decommissioning as an issue in the Irish Civil War. Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 1(1), 8-16. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-9469.2001.tb00003.x
  • Kissane, Bill (2001). Democratic consolidation and government changeover in the Irish Free State. Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 39(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/713999536
  • Kissane, Bill (2000). Civil society under strain: intermediary organisations and the Irish civil war. Irish Political Studies, 15(1), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/07907180008406611
  • Kissane, Bill (2000). Explaining the intractability of the Irish civil war. Civil Wars, 3(2), 65-88. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698240008402439
  • Kissane, Bill (2000). Nineteenth-century nationalism in Finland and Ireland: a comparative analysis. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 6(2), 25-42. https://doi.org/10.1080/13537110008428594
    • Book
  • Kissane, Bill (2016). Nations torn asunder: the challenge of civil war. Oxford University Press.
  • Kissane, Bill (Ed.) (2014). After civil war: division, reconstruction, and reconciliation in contemporary Europe. University of Pennsylvania. Press.
  • Kissane, Bill (2011). New beginnings: constitutionalism and democracy in modern Ireland. University College Dublin Press.
  • Kissane, Bill (2005). The politics of the Irish Civil War. Oxford University Press.
  • Kissane, Bill (2002). Explaining Irish democracy. University College Dublin Press.
    • Chapter
  • Kissane, Bill (2025). Civil War as the graveyard of revolution in Europe, 1917-1923. In Leira Castineira, Francisco Jorge, Kokosalakis, Yiannis (Eds.), Violence and Propaganda in European Civil Wars, 1917-1949 . Routledge. picture_as_pdf
  • Kissane, Bill (2024). Irish Civil War, 1922–1923. In Roy, Kaushik (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Military History . Oxford University Press.
  • Kissane, Bill, Sitter, Nick (2019). National identity and constitutions in modern Europe: into the fifth zone. In Landau, David, Lerner, Hanna (Eds.), Comparative Constitution Making . Edward Elgar. picture_as_pdf
  • Kissane, Bill (2015). Civil wars. In Wright, James D. (Ed.), International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences (pp. 713-718). Elsevier (Firm).
  • Kissane, Bill (2013). Victory in defeat?: national identity after civil war in Finland and Ireland. In Hall, John A., Malešević, Siniša (Eds.), Nationalism and War (pp. 321-340). Cambridge University Press.
  • 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 (pp. 221-241). Irish Academic Press.
  • Kissane, Bill (2012). Is the Irish referendum a majoritarian device? In Marxer, Wilfred, Kaufmann, B, Pallinger, Z. T, Schiller, T (Eds.), Direct Democracy and Minorities (pp. 145-154). VS Verlag.
  • Kissane, Bill (2009). From people's veto to instrument of elite consensus: the referendum experience in Ireland. In Setälä, Maija, Schiller, Theo (Eds.), Referendums and Representative Democracy: Responsiveness, Accountability and Deliberation (pp. 17-33). Routledge.
  • Kissane, Bill (2007). The not-so-amazing case of Irish democracy. In McGrath, Conor, O'Malley, Eoin (Eds.), Irish Political Studies Reader: Key Contributions (pp. 15-40). Routledge.
    • Report
  • Kissane, Bill (2017). What is at stake in the Turkish constitutional referendum? The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK.
  • Kissane, Bill, Elagati, Mohamed, Fahmi, Georges (2012). Constitutions and Processes of Democratic Transition. Rwafead.
  • Kissane, Bill, Mansouri, Wassim (2012). Principles of constitutional drafting. Westminster Foundation for Democracy.
  • Kissane, Bill, Sitter, Nick (2006). The comparative study of civil war: towards a dynamic model. The Centre for European and Asian Studies, Norwegian School of Management.
    • Thesis
  • Kissane, William Vincent (1998). Establishing democracy A comparative analysis of the genesis and stabilisation of democracy in independent Ireland 1918-1937. [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
    • Online resource
  • Kissane, Bill (2015). The tragedy of Syria and the nature of civil war.
  • Kissane, Bill (2015). Division, Reconstruction, Reconciliation: what happens to identity after civil war?
  • Kissane, Bill (2015). Does engaging the public in the constitutional process depend on the existence of a ‘constitutional identity’?
  • Kissane, Bill (2014). Few have ever doubted the quality of Robert Dahl’s work.
  • Kissane, Bill (2014). Why is there no Nelson Mandela figure in Northern Ireland?
  • Kissane, Bill (2012). Book review: contesting democracy: political ideas in twentieth century Europe by Jan-Werner Müller.
  • Kissane, Bill (2011). Book review: the destructors: the story of Northern Ireland’s lost Peace Process.
  • 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.
  • 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.
    • Blog post
  • Kissane, Bill (12 August 2024) Taking warnings of civil war seriously. British Politics and Policy at LSE. picture_as_pdf