Negotiated Governance And Public Policy In Ireland

by Taylor, George

• ISBN13: 9780719069994
• ISBN10: 0719069998
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-26
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

In the last decade the pessimism that had engulfed the Irish economy during the 1980s has been replaced by an overwhelming political ebullience encapsulated, if not altogether explained, in the concept of our times: the Celtic Tiger. As a phrase it has remained all the more quixotic because definitions have thus far proven elusive. Few would deny, however, that it appears to possess that most ethereal of qualities: the ability to act as a prism through which our disparate, individual experiences of the contemporary Irish polity are refracted and made intelligible. Certainly, it has found favour among political commentators because it has rendered intelligible the almost incomprehensible: a period of unprecedented growth unimaginable a decade ago.

Author Biography

George Taylor is a lecturer in Politics at the Department of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Table of Contents

List of tables	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Abbreviations	xi
Words in Irish	xiii
Introduction	1	(22)
Negotiated governance in the era of the Celtic Tiger	23	(30)
`All boats rise on a new tide': reconstructing welfare in the era of the Celtic Tiger	53	(43)
`Redefining the public': civil service reform in the era of the Celtic Tiger	96	(28)
`Contestation in the countryside': rural governance in the era of the Celtic Tiger	124	(25)
Environmental governance in the era of the Celtic Tiger	149	(41)
Conclusion	190	(4)
Bibliography	194	(11)
Index	205