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2009

Paul Mitchell, Geoff Evans and Brendan O'Leary  'Extremist Outbidding In Ethnic Party Systems Is Not Inevitable: Tribune Parties in Northern Ireland', Political Studies, 57:2 (June). Copy here.

Paul Mitchell and Geoff Evans  'Ethnic Party Competition and the Dynamics of Power-Sharing in Northern Ireland'  in Rupert Taylor (ed) Consociational Theory: McGarry/O’Leary and the Northern Ireland Conflict. London: Routledge. 

2008

Paul Mitchell and Benjamin Nyblade (2008), ‘Government Formation and Cabinet Type in Parliamentary Democracies’, in Kaare Strom, Wolfgang Muller and Torbjorn Bergman (eds) Cabinets and Coalition Bargaining: The Democratic Life Cycle in Western Europe.  Oxford University Press.

2007

Paul Mitchell   'Party Competition and Voting Behaviour Since the Agreement', pp.110-24 in Paul Carmichael, Colin Knox and Robert Osborne (eds) Devolution and Constitutional Change in Northern Ireland. Manchester University Press.

2005

Michael Gallagher and Paul Mitchell ‘Introduction to Electoral Systems’, pp. 3-23 in Michael Gallagher and Paul Mitchell (eds, 2005) The Politics of Electoral Systems.  Oxford University Press.

Paul Mitchell   ‘United Kingdom: Plurality Rule Under Siege’, pp.157-184 in Michael Gallagher and Paul Mitchell (eds, 2005) The Politics of Electoral Systems.  Oxford University Press.

Amanda Gouws and Paul Mitchell  ‘South Africa: One Party Dominance Despite Perfect Proportionality’.   Pp. 353-374 in Michael Gallagher and Paul Mitchell (eds, 2005) The Politics of Electoral Systems.  Oxford University Press.

Paul Mitchell, Brendan O’Leary and Geoffrey Evans (2005), ‘The Northern Ireland Assembly Elections of 2003’, ARK Research Update No. 36, The Northern Ireland Social and Political Data Archive. Available here.


2003

Paul Mitchell   ‘Ireland: "O What a Tangled Web . . ." - Delegation, Accountability and Executive Power’, in Kaare Strom, Wolfgang Muller and Torbjorn Bergman (eds), Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies.  Oxford: Oxford University.

Paul Mitchell  ‘Government Formation in 2002: “You Can Have Any Kind of Government As Long As It’s Fianna Fáil”’, pp.214-30 in Michael Gallagher, Michael Marsh and Paul Mitchell (eds) How Ireland Voted 2002.  (London: Palgrave/Macmillan).

Paul Mitchell  ‘Fianna Fáil Still Dominant in the Coalition Era: The Irish General Election of May 2002, West European Politics Vol 26.1.

2002
Paul Mitchell, Brendan O'Leary and Geoff Evans ‘The 2001 Elections in Northern Ireland: Moderating ‘Extremists’ and The Squeezing of the Moderates’, Representation 39, pp23-36.

2001
Paul Mitchell  ‘Divided Government in Ireland’, in Robert Elgie (ed), Divided Government in World Politics.  Oxford University Press.

 Paul Mitchell, Brendan O'Leary and Geoff Evans  'Northern Ireland: Flanking Extremists Bite the Moderates and Emerge in Their Clothes’, Parliamentary Affairs, 54:4, pp. 725-42. Co-authored with Brendan O’Leary and Geoffrey Evans. Also published in Pippa Norris (ed) Britain Votes 2001. Oxford University Press.

Paul MItchell  'Transcending an Ethnic Party System?  The Impact of Consociational Governance on Electoral Dynamics and the Party System’ in R. Wilford (ed), Aspects of the Belfast Agreement.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2000
Paul Mitchell  ‘Voters and their Representatives: Electoral Institutions and Delegation in Parliamentary Democracies’, European Journal of Political Research  (Vol.38.3, May, pp. 335-351).

Paul Mitchell  'Ireland: From Single-Party To Coalition Rule’, in Coalition Governments in Western Europe, edited by Wolfgang Müller and Kaare Strøm.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.

1999
Paul Mitchell  ‘Coalition Discipline, Enforcement Mechanisms and Intra-Party Politics’, pp. 269-87 in Shaun Bowler, David Farrell and Richard Katz (eds), Party Discipline and Parliamentary Government.  Ohio State University Press.

Paul Mitchell  'Government Formation: A Tale of Two Coalitions’, in Michael Marsh and Paul Mitchell (eds),  How Ireland Voted 1997.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Michael Marsh and Paul Mitchell  'Office, Votes and then Policy:  Hard Choices for Political Parties in the Republic of Ireland’,  in Wolfgang  Müller and Kaare Strøm (eds), Policy, Office or Votes? How Political Parties in Western Europe Make Hard Decisions.  New York: Cambridge University Press. Co-authored with Michael Marsh.

Paul Mitchell  'Futures’, pp. 265-85 in Paul Mitchell and Rick Wilford (eds).  Politics in Northern Ireland.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Paul MItchell and Gordan Gillespie 'The Electoral Systems’, pp. 66- 90 in Paul Mitchell and Rick Wilford (eds),  Politics in Northern Ireland.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Paul Mitchell  'TheParty System and Party Competition’, pp. 91-116 in Paul Mitchell and Rick Wilford (eds),  Politics in Northern Ireland.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

1997
Paul Mitchell ‘Irland: Von Einparteien- zu Koalitionsregierungen’, pp. 161-98 in Wolfgang Müller and Kaare Strøm (eds), Koalitions- regierungen in Westeuropa.  Vienna: Signum Verlag

1995
Paul Mitchell  ‘Party Competition in an Ethnic Dual Party System’, Ethnic and Racial Studies.  (Vol 18:4, October, pp. 773-796). 

1993
Paul Mitchell  ‘The 1992 General Election in the Republic of Ireland’, Irish Political Studies,  (Vol 8, pp. 111-117).

1991
Paul Mitchell  ‘Conflict Regulation and Party Competition in Northern Ireland’, European Journal of Political Research, Vol 20:1, July, pp. 67-92.