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Public sector reform in Ireland : countering crisis /

By: MacCarthaigh, Muiris [author.].
Series: Executive politics and governance: Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017Description: xv, 298 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.Content type: text | still image | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9783319574592; 9783319574592:; 3319574590.Subject(s): Civil service reform -- Ireland | Financial crises | Public administration -- Ireland -- Case studies | Public administration -- Ireland | Organizational change -- Ireland | Administrative agencies -- Ireland -- Management | Organizational change -- Ireland -- Case studies | Ireland -- Politics and government -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 352.309415
Contents:
Introduction -- Political and administrative contexts -- A ministry for public sector reform -- Through the window of reform -- Shrinking the state : organisational reform and rationalisation -- Renegotiating the 'bargain' -- Public expenditure reform -- Culture reform -- Political reform -- Conclusions.
Summary: Provides a thematic case-study analysis of the wide-ranging public sector reforms introduced in one of the states most deeply affected by the global financial crisis: the Republic of Ireland. It presents a timely and apposite examination of how a crisis can be used to overcome barriers and facilitate new reform agendas. The study draws upon unique insider access to the centre of Irish government, as well as interviews with over 60 key figures, to examine the implementation of those reforms over the 2011-16 period. The book opens with a contextual analysis of the creation of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 275-277) and index.

Introduction -- Political and administrative contexts -- A ministry for public sector reform -- Through the window of reform -- Shrinking the state : organisational reform and rationalisation -- Renegotiating the 'bargain' -- Public expenditure reform -- Culture reform -- Political reform -- Conclusions.

Provides a thematic case-study analysis of the wide-ranging public sector reforms introduced in one of the states most deeply affected by the global financial crisis: the Republic of Ireland. It presents a timely and apposite examination of how a crisis can be used to overcome barriers and facilitate new reform agendas. The study draws upon unique insider access to the centre of Irish government, as well as interviews with over 60 key figures, to examine the implementation of those reforms over the 2011-16 period. The book opens with a contextual analysis of the creation of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

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