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Political Culture

March 25, 2015

The New Forum Is Not Social Partnership. It Is Worse.

Introduction As things get better, ghosts from the past appear and disturb the party. House prices increase, new houses are...

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Political Culture, The Public Sector

August 13, 2014

A Question of Culture – Report of the Independent Review...

Introduction Frances Fitzgerald, on taking up office as minister, on June 3 2014, commissioned an ‘Independent Review Group’...

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The Public Sector

February 12, 2014

Strengthening Civil Service Accountability and Performance: A Poor Performance

Introduction On the 14 January last, the Government Reform Unit of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform published a...

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Political Culture, The Public Sector

November 14, 2012

So Much Change, So Little Reflexivity

In this post, I explore how Boltanski’s and Thevenot’s analysis of social life as movement among different...

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The Public Sector

September 26, 2012

Pity the Senior Civil Servant – Rewriting the Ministers and...

Minister Pat Rabbite does not believe that the crisis reveals weaknesses in our design for democracy. One might have expected his...

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