The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 37, No. 3, Winter, 2006
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The politics of empowerment: power, populism and partnership in rural Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2006)Since the early 1990s local area partnerships, sponsored either by the state or by the EC/EU together with the state, have proliferated in Ireland as elsewhere (Geddes, 2000). What inspired these area partnerships initially ... -
The challenge of urban regeneration in deprived European neighbourhoods: a partnership approach
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2006)This paper sets out to critically examine the adoption of a partnership approach to urban regeneration at neighbourhood level across eight European cities. While all of the cities were committed to the idea of the socially ... -
Politics and social partnership: flexible network governance
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2006)This paper reassesses the relationship between social partnership and the broader Irish policy process. What has developed may be conceptualised as ?flexible network governance?. While pay regulation may be less strongly ... -
New modes of governance and the Irish case: finding evidence for explanations of social partnership
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2006)This paper applies insights from governance and multi-level governance(MLG) studies to the analysis of Social Partnership in order to: (1) outline a methodological approach for the study of Social Partnership over time; ... -
Social partnership as a mode of governance: introduction to the special issue
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2006)The development of ?social partnership? institutions has been one of the most striking, and surprising aspects of the transformation of Irish society and politics in the past fifteen years. The papers in this special issue ... -
Multi-level ?partnership? and Irish waste management: the politics of municipal incineration
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2006)This article looks at the deployment of partnership-as-governance in the area of EU and Irish waste management and incineration policy. Looking at the specific case of plans to locate a municipal incinerator at Poolbeg in ... -
Origins and significance of the community and voluntary pillar in Irish social partnership
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2006)The Irish social partnership is comparatively unusual in the way that corporatist bargaining also accommodates community and voluntary sector organisations. This paper examines the origins and significance of the ...