Maura Adshead
Biographic Data
| ID | 1370199 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maura Adshead |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maura |
| FAMILY NAME | Adshead |
| SIGNATURE | ADSHEAD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Limerick |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6120-3635 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
‘It’s a life-changing point for me’
The Youth Global Awareness Programme (YGAP) is a 2-week residential ‘popular education’ programme for young, diverse, international, labour movement activists, run by the International Federation of Workers Education Associations in Cape Town, South Africa. In this mixed method study ( N = 47), we draw on the Social Identity Approach to Education and Learning. We propose that the participatory, peer-to-peer learning during YGAP leads to activist …
Growing leaders from below
Informal and unregulated work is the norm rather than the exception in emerging economies. This study was conducted in India where nine out of 10 women are occupied in informal, unregulated work, and are vulnerable to low-wages, exploitation, and interconnected cultural and social-economic injustices. The Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA) and their education wing the Indian Academy of Self-Employed Women encourage their members to self-def…
Clarifying the mechanisms and resources that enable the reciprocal involvement of seldom heard groups in health and social care research
Who's left in the wake of Irish austerity
With the sole exception of Iceland, the downturn in the Irish economy in 2007 and 2008 was the most severe of any experienced by an Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development member state. In Ireland, the crisis was widely understood to have five key dimensions: a banking crisis, a public finance crisis, an economic crisis, a social crisis and a reputational crisis. This article examines the political impact of that crisis, focusing i…
Immigrant Women’s Experiences of Acculturative Stress
We examined the relation of two acculturation stressors, exclusion from ordinary privileges and overt discrimination, to two indicators of psychological well-being (i.e., psychiatric symptoms and satisfaction with life) among a diverse sample of immigrant women living in Ireland ( N = 174). We grouped our sample into “visible” immigrant women of color and “nonvisible” White immigrant women. As expected, visible immigrant women reported more exper…
EU cohesion policy and multi-level governance outcomes in Ireland
This paper presents a study of the Irish experience of EU cohesion policy, with a view to exploring what the Irish case can tell us about the conditionality of state’s adaptation to EU policy values and practice. Using Bache’s (2008) framework for the analysis of Europeanization, Multi-Level Governance and Cohesion policy, the paper finds that Europeanization has resulted in a reorientation of domestic policies, practices and preferences in the I…
Problem-Based Learning and Civic Engagement—Shifting the Focus of Learning in Public Policy Education
This article describes the development of an innovative teaching method to help political science students deepen their comprehension of public policy through engaging with real world scenarios. It describes the development of a constructivist learning environment (CLE) (Jonassen, 1999) for students in a postgraduate public policy module, fashioned by integrating a problem-based learning (PBL) approach with civic engagement processes. The article…
Understanding Policy Success. Rethinking Public Policy ‐ by Allan McConnell
Ireland
The Importance of Neglect in Policy Making ‐ by Michiel S. De Vries
An Advocacy Coalition Framework Approach to the Rise and Fall of Social Partnership
The advent of Social Partnership in response to deep economic crisis and the dissolution of Social Partnership in response to deep economic crisis creates something of a conundrum for studies of public policy. Though it is typically assumed that external crises pre‐empt major policy change, the Irish case is counter‐intuitive. If Social Partnership was acclaimed as the successful response to the economic crisis of the 1980s, why was it not used a…
Conclusion
Political Culture
The Bureaucracy
Commenting on the development of the British civil service in the mid-1990s, Dowding (1995: 2) suggested that ‘twenty years ago, writing a book on the civil service was a comparatively easy task. The service had remained largely unchanged for almost a century, acquiring new tasks and departments, rearrangement here and there; but in the main historians of the civil service could stand on the shoulders of their predecessors’. The same could also b…
The Judiciary
Civil Society, Interest Groups and Pressure Politics
Political Parties and the Party System
Ireland in the European Union and Beyond
Territorial Administration and Subnational Government
The Irish Republic and the UK are states where the institutions and organization of local government are not constitutionally protected. Central government plays the most significant role in determining the form and structure of local government, whose powers are limited to those defined by central government statute. In the Republic, central government approaches to subnational government have been characterized by pragmatism. This is reflected …
Social Policy and the Welfare State
The Executive
Economic Management
The Electoral System and Voting Behaviour
The Legislature
Politics in Ireland
Europeanization and changing patterns of governance in Ireland
In order to examine institutional change in Republic of Ireland (hereinafter referred to as ‘Ireland’ or ‘the Irish case’) as a consequence of European integration, this article looks at the adaptation of national institutions subsequent to EU membership. A new institutionalist approach is taken towards the definition and discussion of institutions in order that the analysis may encompass the broadest range of changes consequent to EU membership:…
Politics in Ireland
The Move from Government to Governance
English This article examines the evolution of Irish development policy, suggesting that it illustrates significant changes in government at both national and sub-national level. It is argued that pressures for change have arisen both beyond and below the national level of administration, as a result of reforms to Structural Funding at the European Union level and the growth of community initiatives at sub-national level. The chief consequence ha…
Beyond clientelism
Understanding the nature of relations between those responsible for policy and those affected by it, is critical to our comprehension of the policy process and by extension, the nature of government. This article presents the results of an enquiry into the role played by the three main Irish farming organisations: the Irish Farmers Association (IFA); the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (ICMSA) and the Irish Cooperative Society (ICOS). T…
Immigrant Women’s Experiences of Acculturative Stress
We examined the relation of two acculturation stressors, exclusion from ordinary privileges and overt discrimination, to two indicators of psychological well-being (i.e., psychiatric symptoms and satisfaction with life) among a diverse sample of immigrant women living in Ireland ( N = 174). We grouped our sample into “visible” immigrant women of color and “nonvisible” White immigrant women. As expected, visible immigrant women reported more exper…
EU cohesion policy and multi-level governance outcomes in Ireland
This paper presents a study of the Irish experience of EU cohesion policy, with a view to exploring what the Irish case can tell us about the conditionality of state’s adaptation to EU policy values and practice. Using Bache’s (2008) framework for the analysis of Europeanization, Multi-Level Governance and Cohesion policy, the paper finds that Europeanization has resulted in a reorientation of domestic policies, practices and preferences in the I…
An Advocacy Coalition Framework Approach to the Rise and Fall of Social Partnership
The advent of Social Partnership in response to deep economic crisis and the dissolution of Social Partnership in response to deep economic crisis creates something of a conundrum for studies of public policy. Though it is typically assumed that external crises pre‐empt major policy change, the Irish case is counter‐intuitive. If Social Partnership was acclaimed as the successful response to the economic crisis of the 1980s, why was it not used a…
Elections to the European Parliament, June 2004
Problem-Based Learning and Civic Engagement—Shifting the Focus of Learning in Public Policy Education
This article describes the development of an innovative teaching method to help political science students deepen their comprehension of public policy through engaging with real world scenarios. It describes the development of a constructivist learning environment (CLE) (Jonassen, 1999) for students in a postgraduate public policy module, fashioned by integrating a problem-based learning (PBL) approach with civic engagement processes. The article…
Growing leaders from below
Informal and unregulated work is the norm rather than the exception in emerging economies. This study was conducted in India where nine out of 10 women are occupied in informal, unregulated work, and are vulnerable to low-wages, exploitation, and interconnected cultural and social-economic injustices. The Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA) and their education wing the Indian Academy of Self-Employed Women encourage their members to self-def…
Who's left in the wake of Irish austerity
With the sole exception of Iceland, the downturn in the Irish economy in 2007 and 2008 was the most severe of any experienced by an Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development member state. In Ireland, the crisis was widely understood to have five key dimensions: a banking crisis, a public finance crisis, an economic crisis, a social crisis and a reputational crisis. This article examines the political impact of that crisis, focusing i…
Understanding Policy Success. Rethinking Public Policy ‐ by Allan McConnell
Conceptualising Europeanisation
With the odd exception (Wallace, 2000), the term ‘Europeanisation’ has come to be used in reference to the impact of the European Union (EU) across member states (Bulmer and Burch, 1998). Assessing the nature of this impact is, however, extremely problematic. The EU does not present a single over-arching ‘European principle of organization’ that we might examine for evidence of its influence. Analysis of change within European states also runs in…
Sea change on the isle of saints and scholars
Beyond clientelism
Understanding the nature of relations between those responsible for policy and those affected by it, is critical to our comprehension of the policy process and by extension, the nature of government. This article presents the results of an enquiry into the role played by the three main Irish farming organisations: the Irish Farmers Association (IFA); the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (ICMSA) and the Irish Cooperative Society (ICOS). T…
The Move from Government to Governance
English This article examines the evolution of Irish development policy, suggesting that it illustrates significant changes in government at both national and sub-national level. It is argued that pressures for change have arisen both beyond and below the national level of administration, as a result of reforms to Structural Funding at the European Union level and the growth of community initiatives at sub-national level. The chief consequence ha…
Conceptualising Europeanisation
With the odd exception (Wallace, 2000), the term ‘Europeanisation’ has come to be used in reference to the impact of the European Union (EU) across member states (Bulmer and Burch, 1998). Assessing the nature of this impact is, however, extremely problematic. The EU does not present a single over-arching ‘European principle of organization’ that we might examine for evidence of its influence. Analysis of change within European states also runs in…
Europeanization and changing patterns of governance in Ireland
In order to examine institutional change in Republic of Ireland (hereinafter referred to as ‘Ireland’ or ‘the Irish case’) as a consequence of European integration, this article looks at the adaptation of national institutions subsequent to EU membership. A new institutionalist approach is taken towards the definition and discussion of institutions in order that the analysis may encompass the broadest range of changes consequent to EU membership:…
Elections to the European Parliament, June 2004
Conclusion
Political Culture
The Bureaucracy
Commenting on the development of the British civil service in the mid-1990s, Dowding (1995: 2) suggested that ‘twenty years ago, writing a book on the civil service was a comparatively easy task. The service had remained largely unchanged for almost a century, acquiring new tasks and departments, rearrangement here and there; but in the main historians of the civil service could stand on the shoulders of their predecessors’. The same could also b…
The Judiciary
Civil Society, Interest Groups and Pressure Politics
Political Parties and the Party System
Ireland in the European Union and Beyond
Territorial Administration and Subnational Government
The Irish Republic and the UK are states where the institutions and organization of local government are not constitutionally protected. Central government plays the most significant role in determining the form and structure of local government, whose powers are limited to those defined by central government statute. In the Republic, central government approaches to subnational government have been characterized by pragmatism. This is reflected …
Social Policy and the Welfare State
The Executive
Economic Management
The Electoral System and Voting Behaviour
The Legislature
Politics in Ireland
Ireland
The Importance of Neglect in Policy Making ‐ by Michiel S. De Vries
An Advocacy Coalition Framework Approach to the Rise and Fall of Social Partnership
The advent of Social Partnership in response to deep economic crisis and the dissolution of Social Partnership in response to deep economic crisis creates something of a conundrum for studies of public policy. Though it is typically assumed that external crises pre‐empt major policy change, the Irish case is counter‐intuitive. If Social Partnership was acclaimed as the successful response to the economic crisis of the 1980s, why was it not used a…
Understanding Policy Success. Rethinking Public Policy ‐ by Allan McConnell
EU cohesion policy and multi-level governance outcomes in Ireland
This paper presents a study of the Irish experience of EU cohesion policy, with a view to exploring what the Irish case can tell us about the conditionality of state’s adaptation to EU policy values and practice. Using Bache’s (2008) framework for the analysis of Europeanization, Multi-Level Governance and Cohesion policy, the paper finds that Europeanization has resulted in a reorientation of domestic policies, practices and preferences in the I…
Political science (27 works) · Law (19 works) · Politics (15 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Public Administration (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works)