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Political Culture, The Public Sector

July 19, 2013

Public Sector Modernisation: Bad and Good News

The bad news is that the reforming ambitions of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform are ill-judged and unrealisable....

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Political Culture

May 9, 2013

A Must Read on Irish Political Culture

Introduction Pierre Rosanvallon has written extensively on democracy in general and on the history of French democracy in...

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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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The Public Sector

September 19, 2012

Part 4 – Policy Narratives in the absence of Grand...

Who can doubt that weaknesses in the civil service contributed to the crisis. We cannot understand these weaknesses without...

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