Muiris MacCarthaigh

Queen's University Belfast

Senior Lecturer

25 University Square

Belfast, BT7 1NN

Ireland

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (21)

1.

Governing Ireland: From Cabinet Government to Delegated Governance

Governing Ireland: From Cabinet Government to Delegated Governance, E. O'Malley & M. MacCarthaigh, eds., Institute of Public Administration, 2011
Number of pages: 302 Posted: 18 May 2014
Eoin O'Malley and Muiris MacCarthaigh
Dublin City University - School of Law and Government and Queen's University Belfast
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Ireland, Government

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The UnPolitics of New Public Management in Ireland

ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS AND DEMOCRATIC: GOVERNANCE, pp. 55-67, Jean-Michel Eymeri-Douzans and Jon Pierre eds., London: Routledge, 2010
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 28 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2011
Niamh Hardiman and Muiris MacCarthaigh
University College Dublin (UCD) and Queen's University Belfast
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public Sector, Public Administration, State institutions, Ireland

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How Governments Retrench in Crisis: The Case of Ireland

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 29 Sep 2013
Niamh Hardiman and Muiris MacCarthaigh
University College Dublin (UCD) and Queen's University Belfast
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Fiscal consolidation, public administration, fiscal politics, economic crisis, Ireland

4.

Reform of Public Policy-Making in Ireland

Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland (2013)
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 06 May 2013
Muiris MacCarthaigh
Queen's University Belfast
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Ireland, Policy-making, Governance, Public Administration, Evidence-based

5.

The Troika's Variations on a Trio: Why the Loan Programmes Worked so Differently in Greece, Ireland, and Portugal

UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy, Geary WP2017/11
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 28 Oct 2017
Niamh Hardiman, Joaquim Araújo, Muiris MacCarthaigh and Calliope Spanou
University College Dublin (UCD), University of Minho - Department of International Relations and Public Administration, Queen's University Belfast and National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Political Science and Public Administration
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Loan programme, Eurozone crisis, Troika, European periphery, conditionality

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Organizing for Growth: Irish Public Administration 1958-2008

The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 367–393, Autumn 2010
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 17 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2010
Niamh Hardiman and Muiris MacCarthaigh
University College Dublin (UCD) and Queen's University Belfast
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Ireland, public administration, state capacity, New Public Management, industrial policy

7.

Austerity and Reform of the Irish Public Administration

Published in Revista de Administração e Emprego Público (RAEP)/Administration and Public Employment Review, Vol. 1(1), 2015, pp. 143-164
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 25 Mar 2015
Muiris MacCarthaigh
Queen's University Belfast
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Administrative Reform, Austerity, GFC, Ireland

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Bicameralism in the Republic of Ireland: The Seanad Abolition Referendum

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 13 Jul 2017
Muiris MacCarthaigh and Shane Martin
Queen's University Belfast and University of Essex - Department of Government
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Bicameralism, Ireland, Referendum, Parliament

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When, Why and How to Set Up a State Agency: The Case of the Road Safety Authority

Irish Journal of Public Policy, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2011
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 05 Aug 2011
Muiris MacCarthaigh and Paul Turpin
Queen's University Belfast and Institute of Public Administration
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state agencies, Ireland, road safety, autonomy, delegation

10.

The Recycling of Political Accountability

RECYCLING THE STATE: THE POLITICS OF ADAPTATION IN IRELAND, pp. 201-22, K. Hayward, and M. MacCarthaigh, eds., Irish Academic Press 2007
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 18 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 20 Oct 2011
Muiris MacCarthaigh
Queen's University Belfast
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Accountability, Parliament, Representation, Participation

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Agency Management in a Time of Crisis

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 09 Mar 2012
Muiris MacCarthaigh
Queen's University Belfast
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Agencies, termination, merger, rationalization, Ireland, post-NPM

12.

Accountability Through National Parliaments: Practice and Problems

NATIONAL PARLIAMENTS WITHIN THE ENLARGED EUROPEAN UNION, pp. 29-45, J. O'Brennan, T. Raunio, eds., Routledge, 2007
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 27 Oct 2011
Muiris MacCarthaigh
Queen's University Belfast
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Legislatures, EU, Accountability, National parliaments

13.

Public Administration and Administrative Reforms in Ireland

Madureira, C. and Asensio, M. (eds) 2013. Handbook de Administração Pública/Handbook of Public Administration (Lisbon: INA), pp. 377-96
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 29 Oct 2014
Muiris MacCarthaigh
Queen's University Belfast
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Ireland; public administration; administrative reform; civil service

14.

The Relevance of Irish Local Government

Studies, Vol. 98, Spring 2009
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 03 Aug 2011
Muiris MacCarthaigh
Queen's University Belfast
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Local Government, Ireland, Devolution, Centralization

15.

Reforming the Irish Public Service: A Multiple Streams Perspective

Administration, 2017, Vol. 65 (2): 145-64
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 18 Jan 2019
Muiris MacCarthaigh
Queen's University Belfast
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Ireland; public administration; global financial crisis; public service reform; multiple streams

16.

Informal Relationships and De Facto Independence of the Regulator in the Irish Telecommunications Regulatory Arrangement

Multi-level Regulation in the Telecommunications Sector: Adaptive Regulatory Arrangements in Belgium, Ireland, The Netherlands and Switzerland, Edited by David Aubin and Koen Verhoest (Basingstoke: Palgrave) 2014, pp. 78-107
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 14 Jul 2017
Muiris MacCarthaigh
Queen's University Belfast
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Regulation, Telecommunications, Ireland, Regulatory Arrangement, EU

17.

Reforming the Westminster Model of Agency Governance: Britain and Ireland After the Crisis

Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions Volume 29 (4), October 2016, pp.535–552
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 30 Nov 2016
Katharine Dommett, Muiris MacCarthaigh and Niamh Hardiman
University of Sheffield - Politics and International Relations, Queen's University Belfast and University College Dublin (UCD)
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Agencies, Britain, Ireland, Westminster, GFC

18.

The Role of the 'Centre' in Public Service Reform

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 18 Feb 2021
Muiris MacCarthaigh
Queen's University Belfast
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Core executive, Ireland, public sector reform, governance

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Service Integration in Hard Times: Merging Social Welfare and Labour Activation Measures

Administration Vol. 67, no. 2 (2019), pp. 137-60
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 26 Dec 2019
Stephan Köppe and Muiris MacCarthaigh
University College Dublin (UCD) and Queen's University Belfast
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Unemployment insurance, active labour market policies, Ireland, crisis, organisation merger, union, implementation

20.

A Century of Irish Parliamentary Government

Administration Vol. 66 (4), 2018, pp. 49-59
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 24 Dec 2019
Muiris MacCarthaigh and Peter Finnegan
Queen's University Belfast and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Parliament, Ireland, Centenary, Bicameralism

21.

Public Policy Accumulation in Ireland: the Changing Profile of Ministerial Departments 1922–2022

Muiris MacCarthaigh, John Biggins & Niamh Hardiman (2023) Public policy accumulation in Ireland: the changing profile of ministerial departments 1922–2022, Irish Political Studies, 38:1, 92-119
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 15 Apr 2024
Muiris MacCarthaigh, John Biggins and Niamh Hardiman
Queen's University Belfast, University College Dublin (UCD) - Centre for Regulation and Governance and University College Dublin (UCD)
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Ministerial Departments; Policy Accumulation; Public Policy; Ireland; Public Administration