Ireland is no different to other EU/OECD countries whereby ongoing reform is pursued in order to enhance the public sector’s capacity to deal with expanding policy competences, societal change and the demands of an ...

This book presents two years of ‘fly on the wall’ insights into an examination of the single biggest cross-sectoral public sector reform initiative ever carried out in the Irish state

The charge of Russophobia has been made increasingly frequently against Western critics of Russia in the last few years. Much of this criticism has been made by Russian media and commentators rather than by high officials ...

This paper explores the (re)production of embodied gendered and racialised identities as part of commemorations devised by the Scottish government to mark the Centenary of WWI, 2014- 18. In particular, we demonstrate ...

Strategic planning has become a cornerstone in the management of Irish universities, responding initially to the 1997 Universities Act and more recently to a national and international policy environment. Irish universities ...

Review of: "Shlomi Segall, Why Inequality Matters: Luck Egalitarianism, Its Meaning and Value"

In his stimulating paper, Bouke de Vries proposes a novel ‘desire-based objection’ to the constitutional recognition of an official religion. In developing this objection, De Vries’s stated target is a particular—and still ...

Many would characterise the international politics of the former Soviet Union as being fraught with competition and beset by weakness, war and chaos associated with contestations between nations and identities but this has ...

Several early technology developments put Kenya on the map as the ‘tech capital’ of East Africa, and during the past decade, Kenya went through a period of overabundant funding for information and communications technology ...

Shadow rapporteurs play an important role in developing the European Parliament’s collective policy positions and in defending them in inter-institutional negotiations. This study sheds light on the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of ...