Muiris MacCarthaigh

Research Output

Research Output per year

2005 2020

• 37 Article
• 25 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
• 7 Book
• 2 Book/Film/Article review
• 1 More
  • 1 Chapter

Research Output per year

Research Output per year

Search results

• A Century of Irish Parliamentary Government

  Finnegan, P. & MacCarthaigh, M., 31 Dec 2018, Administration, 66, 4, p. 49-59 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  Open Access

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  • politics
  • national parliament
  • parliament
  • twentieth century
  • experience
  190 Downloads (Pure)

• Agency Termination in Ireland: Culls and bonfires, or life after death?

  Maccarthaigh, M., 2014, In : Public Administration. 92, 4, p. 1017-1037 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • termination
  • Ireland
  • rationalization
  • death
  • financial crisis
  23 Citations (Scopus)

  119 Downloads (Pure)

• Analyzing longitudinal continuity and change in public sector organizations

  MacCarthaigh, M. & Roness, P. G., 01 Jan 2012, In : International Journal of Public Administration. 35, 12, p. 773-782 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Public Sector Organizations
  • continuity
  • public sector
  • Organizational Life Cycle
  • Continuity
  20 Citations (Scopus)

• Austerity and Reform of the Irish Public Administration

  MacCarthaigh, M., 2015, Revista de Administração e Emprego Público - RAEP, 1, 1, p. 143-164 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  Open Access

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  • public administration
  • reform
  • financial crisis
  • Ireland
  • public service
  594 Downloads (Pure)

• Autonomy and regulation of state agencies: Reinforcement, indifference or compensation?

  Roness, P. G., Verhoest, K., Rubecksen, K. & MacCarthaigh, M., 01 Jun 2008, In : Public Organization Review. 8, 2, p. 155-174 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Reinforcement
  • Indifference
  • reinforcement
  • Autonomy
  • autonomy
  23 Citations (Scopus)

• Bicameralism in the Republic of Ireland: The Seanad Abolition Referendum

  MacCarthaigh, M. & Martin, S., 2015, In : Irish Political Studies. 30, 1, p. 121-131 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • bicameralism
  • chamber
  • referendum
  • Ireland
  • republic
  13 Citations (Scopus)

  109 Downloads (Pure)

• Civil Service Accountability: Challenge and Change

  MacCarthaigh, M. & Boyle, R., Jan 2014, State of the Public Service Series, 12 27 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Collaborative cost-cutting: productive efficiency as an interdependency between public organizations

  Elston, T., MacCarthaigh, M. & Verhoest, K., 20 Feb 2018, In : Public Management Review. 20, 12, p. 1815-1835 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Productive Efficiency
  • Public Organizations
  • Interdependencies
  • Costs
  • Public Sector Organizations
  13 Citations (Scopus)

  139 Downloads (Pure)

• Commissions and Local Government Reform: Expressed Leadership Identities of Commissioners in Inquiries Proposing Municipal Mergers in Northern Ireland and New South Wales

  Wallis, J., Brodtkorb, T., Dollery, B. & MacCarthaigh, M., 11 Apr 2017, In : Politics & Policy. 45, 2, p. 285-308 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • government reform
  • merger
  • leadership
  • structural reform
  • stakeholder
  1 Citation (Scopus)

  173 Downloads (Pure)

• Conceptualising the role of National Parliaments in the EU system of governance

  MacCarthaigh, M., 2006, In : Administration. 54, 3, p. 69-94

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• Corporate Governance in Arm’s Length Agencies: An International Overview

  MacCarthaigh, M., Jul 2009, Government of Hong Kong Efficiency Unit 37 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Debate: Shrinking the quango state- an international view

  MacCarthaigh, M., 01 Nov 2012, Public Money and Management, 32, 6, p. 397-399 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Democratic Governance and Civil Service Accountability

  Litton, F. & MacCarthaigh, M., 2007, In : Administration. 55, 1, p. 47-61 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• Exploiting Conditionality: EU and International Actors and post-NPM Reform in Ireland

  MacCarthaigh, M. & Hardiman, N., 10 Apr 2019, Public Policy and Administration, 35, 2, p. 179-200 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  Open Access

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  • Ireland
  • EU
  • reform
  • loan
  • public service
  2 Citations (Scopus)

  196 Downloads (Pure)

• Fit for Purpose? Challenges for Irish Public Administration and Priorities for Public Service Reform

  MacCarthaigh, M. & Boyle, R., Apr 2011, State of the Public Service Series, 4 58 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  • public administration
  • public service
  • reform
  • administrative system
  • financial system

• Implementing policy across national government and from national to regional and local government

  MacCarthaigh, M., Jun 2007, Comhar Sustainable Development Council Research Papers, 3 33 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Joined-Up Government

  MacCarthaigh, M., Apr 2009, Government of Hong Kong Efficiency Unit 52 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Joined-up government in Ireland: From un-strategic choices to patriotic imperatives

  MacCarthaigh, M. & Boyle, R., 01 Mar 2011, In : International Journal of Public Administration. 34, 4, p. 213-220 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Strategic Choice
  • Ireland
  • public service
  • government reform
  • public spending
  9 Citations (Scopus)

• Managing for Legitimacy: Agency Governance in its “Deep” Constitutional Context

  MacCarthaigh, M., Painter, M. & Yee, W-H., 28 Apr 2016, In : Public Administration Review. 76, 3, p. 496-506 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Legitimacy
  • legitimacy
  • Governance
  • governance
  • Control Mechanism
  3 Citations (Scopus)

  208 Downloads (Pure)

• Managing state-owned enterprises in an age of crisis: An analysis of irish experience

  Maccarthaigh, M., 01 May 2011, In : Policy Studies. 32, 3, p. 215-230 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • state enterprise
  • experience
  • political control
  • public management
  • financial crisis
  13 Citations (Scopus)

• Mapping and understanding organizational change: Ireland 1922-2010

  MacCarthaigh, M., 01 Jan 2012, In : International Journal of Public Administration. 35, 12, p. 795-807 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Organizational Change
  • Bureaucracy
  • organizational change
  • Ireland
  • bureaucracy
  12 Citations (Scopus)

• Mapping public sector organizations: An agenda for future research

  MacCarthaigh, M., Roness, P. G. & Sarapuu, K., 01 Jan 2012, In : International Journal of Public Administration. 35, 12, p. 844-851 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Public Sector Organizations
  • Organizational Change
  • organizational change
  • Agenda
  • public sector
  9 Citations (Scopus)

• Organising for growth: Irish state administration 1958-2008

  Hardiman, N. & Maccarthaigh, M., 01 Sep 2010, In : Economic and Social Review. 41, 3, p. 367-393 27 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Public Sector Reform
  • Policy Coordination
  • industrial development
  • Public Administration
  • Industrial Development
  15 Citations (Scopus)

• Politics, policy preferences and the evolution of Irish bureaucracy: A framework for analysis

  MacCarthaigh, M., 01 Feb 2012, In : Irish Political Studies. 27, 1, p. 23-47 25 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • administrative system
  • bureaucracy
  • political goal
  • system change
  • New Public Management
  17 Citations (Scopus)

• Public service integration in hard times: Merging unemployment benefit and labour market activation measures

  Köppe, S. & MacCarthaigh, M., 03 Jun 2019, In : Administration. 67, 2, p. 137-60 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Unemployment benefits
  • Service Integration
  • Unemployment Benefits
  • Labour Market
  • Public Services
  122 Downloads (Pure)

• Public Service Values

  MacCarthaigh, M., 2008, Committee for Public Management Research Discussion Paper, 39 85 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Quango Reform: The Next Steps

  Dommett, K. & MacCarthaigh, M., May 2016, In : Public Money and Management. 36, 4, p. 249-256 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • reform program
  • reform
  • Transparency
  • Ireland
  • Government
  2 Citations (Scopus)

  200 Downloads (Pure)

• Reforming the Irish Public Service: A Multiple Streams Perspective

  MacCarthaigh, M., May 2017, In : Administration. 65, 2, p. 145-64 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Public Services
  • public service
  • Public Expenditure
  • public expenditures
  • Administrative Reform
  2 Citations (Scopus)

  343 Downloads (Pure)

• Reforming the Westminster Model of Agency Governance: Britain and Ireland after the Crisis

  Dommett, K., MacCarthaigh, M. & Hardiman, N., Oct 2016, In : Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions. 29, 4, p. 535-552 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Ireland
  • Accountability
  • Governance
  • governance
  • Bureaucratic Control
  11 Citations (Scopus)

  440 Downloads (Pure)

• Reform of public policy-making in Ireland

  MacCarthaigh, M., Mar 2013, In : Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland. 42, p. 89-95 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  1 Citation (Scopus)

  312 Downloads (Pure)

• Sharing services, saving money? Five risks to cost saving when organizations share administrative services

  Elston, T. & MacCarthaigh, M., Jul 2016, In : Public Money and Management. 36, 5, p. 349-356 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • administrative services
  • Shared Services
  • Cost Savings
  • money
  • costs
  17 Citations (Scopus)

  444 Downloads (Pure)

• State retrenchment and administrative reform in Ireland: Probing comparative policy paradigms

  Hardiman, N. & MacCarthaigh, M., 15 Jan 2016, In : Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis. 19, 2, p. 100-118

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Administrative reforms
  • Ireland
  • public budget
  • paradigm
  • social equities
  9 Citations (Scopus)

  240 Downloads (Pure)

• Tangling with the Troika: ‘domestic ownership’ as political and administrative engagement in Greece, Ireland, and Portugal

  Hardiman, N., Spanou, C., Araújo, J. F. & MacCarthaigh, M., 24 May 2019, In : Public Management Review. 21, 9, p. 1265-1286 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Consolidation
  • Negotiating
  • Ireland
  • Portugal
  • Greece
  2 Citations (Scopus)

  10 Downloads (Pure)

• The Corporate Governance of Commercial State-Owned Enterprises in Ireland

  MacCarthaigh, M., 2009, Committee for Public Management Research , 9 100 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• The Corporate Governance of Regional and Local Public Service Bodies in Ireland

  MacCarthaigh, M., 2007, Committee for Public Management Research , 8 119 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• The relevance of Irish local government

  MacCarthaigh, M., 2009, In : Studies. 98, 389, p. 43-57 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The role of the 'centre' in public service reform

  MacCarthaigh, M., 31 Dec 2020, In : Administration. 68, 4, p. 27-40 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Public Services
  • public service
  • Public Sector Reform
  • reform
  • Governance reform
  6 Downloads (Pure)