May 2012
| Obituaries: IJPP Obituaries | Tom O’Connor |
| Article: Investigating Policy Processes and Practices in Ireland: Potential Ways Forward | Niamh Mc Mahon |
| Article: Realism in International Legislation | Jasper Doomen |
| Article: Trust in Leadership. Some observations on the process of trust building in the German Bundestag and the German Cabinet | Dr Henrik Gast |
| Opinion: No Identity Please: On Integration of Muslims into Ireland | Sardar Aziz |
| Opinion: Will Dutch-style managed competition work in the Irish health system? | Kieke GH Okma |
| Opinion: Student Attitudes and Knowledge on Asylum Issues in Ireland: a survey of University College Cork students | Lilian O’Sullivan |
| Book Review: Bertram Windle, The Honan Bequest and the Modernisation of University College Cork, 1904 -1919 by Ann Keogh and Dermot Keogh | Reviewer: Martin Mansergh |
| Book Review: Women, Men and the Representation of Women in the British Parliaments: Magic numbers? by Anna Manasco Dionne | Reviewer: Fiona Buckley |
| Book Review: Fianna Fáil, A Biography of the Party by Noel Whelan | Reviewer: Gary Murphy |
| Book Review: Reforming the European Commission by Emmanuelle Schön-Quinlivan | Reviewer: Michael G Tutty |
| Book Review: Social Injustice: Essays in Political Philosophy by Vittorio Bufacchi | Reviewer: Siobhan O’Sullivan |
| Book Review: Rawls, An Introduction by Sebastiano Maffettone | Reviewer: Vittorio Bufacchi |
| Book Review: Capturing New Markets – How Smart Companies Create Opportunities Others Don’t by Stephen Wunker | Reviewer: Con Power |
| Book Review: Capitalism 4.0 The Birth of a New Economy in the Aftermath of Crisis by Anatole Kaletsky | Reviewer: Patrick Howard |
| Book Review: Rationality in Economics, Constructivist and Ecological Forms by Vernon L. Smith | Reviewer: Seamus Coffey |
| Book Review: How Ireland really went bust by Matt Cooper | Reviewer: Tim McCarthy |