Browsing The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 41, No. 3, Autumn, 2010 by Subject "Modernisation"

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    • Before the Celtic Tiger: change without modernisation in Ireland 1959-1989 

      Girvin, Brian (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2010)
      This paper engages with and expands on a number of themes examined in Tom Garvin?s Preventing the Future. It asks if it is accurate to describe independent Ireland as poor before 1950, arguing that Ireland became poor in ...

    • Organising for growth: Irish state administration 1958-2008 

      Hardiman, Niamh; MacCarthaigh, Muiris (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2010)
      This paper analyses some key features of Irish public administration as it has developed since the foundation of the state, paying particular attention to the period from the late 1950s onward. During these decades, ...