Includes index.

List of figures, tables and boxes -- List of abbreviations -- Notes on contributors -- Editors' introduction to the series -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contextualising policy analysis in Ireland -- The evolution of economic policy analysis in Ireland -- The evolution of social policy analysis in Ireland: from a theocentric to an econocentric paradigm? -- The changing policy analysis capacity of the Irish state -- Introducing evidence into policy making in Ireland -- Ireland's 'unique blend': local government and policy analysis -- Committees and the legislature -- Policy analysis in the civil service -- Europeanised policy making in Ireland -- The social partners and the NESC: from tripartite dialogue via common knowledge events to network knowledge -- Thinks tanks and their role in policy making in Ireland -- Civil society organisations and policy analysis -- Political parties and the policy process -- Gender expertise and policy analysis -- Democratic innovations and policy analysis: climate policy and Ireland's Citizens' Assembly (2016-18) -- Irish science policy: a case study in evidence-based policy design for small open economies -- Media discourses on the economy in Ireland: framing the policy possibilities