Brendan O’rourke
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590810 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brendan O’rourke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brendan |
| FAMILY NAME | O’rourke |
| SIGNATURE | O’ROURKE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Technological University Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8858-4594 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ideological Presuppositions in Media Coverage of Corporation Tax Policy in the UK and Ireland: A Critical Discourse Analysis
This paper argues that the state’s capacity to tax corporations in order to fund itself is reaching crisis proportions. Following decades of trade liberalization, deregulation, and globalization, large multinational companies have been able to take advantage of tax competition between states in order to avoid taxation and offset their obligations. This crisis, arguably, has been facilitated by state actors and exacerbated by non-state actors: we …
Watchdogs of the Economy: The Development of the Irish Economics Profession's Independent Voice
Histories of the development of professions show a profession's relationship with the state as key to its authority. Yet professions, to gain technocratic authority, also strive to depoliticise their discourses to gain technocratic authority. This dilemmatic tension is particularly true for the economics profession. The historical development of the Irish economics provides an interesting case, where a complicated relationship with the state ulti…
Imagining the future in Irish budgets 1970–2015: A mixed-methods discourse analysis
Annual budgets are key to constituting and governing imagined futures. This paper examines how the signifier ‘future’ is constructed within the Irish budget speeches delivered by finance ministers to parliament between 1970 and 2015. To investigate the discourses of these budget speeches, we employ post-structural discourse theory operationalised through two methods: close reading and corpus-linguistic analysis. Close reading is used to identify …
Cooking a corporation tax controversy: Apple, Ireland and the EU
Given the centrality of corporations in distribution of income and wealth studies, discursive constructions of corporate taxation are essential to understanding the production of inequality. The focus of this study is an interview with Apple’s Chief Executive Tim Cook on the Irish state broadcaster, Raidió Teilifís Éireann’s (RTÉ) flagship news programme, Morning Ireland, following the ruling by the European Commission (EC) on the corporation tax…
The rules of the game: Discursive norms and limits in the field of online art magazines
This article employs methods of discourse analysis and corpus linguistics within a Bourdieusian theoretical framework to examine the discursive norms and limits regulating the construction of reputation by online contemporary art magazines. Moving between quantitative and qualitative analysis of the websites of online contemporary art magazines, the article identifies salient patterns surrounding the use of modifiers and links these patterns to t…
Elite formation in the higher education systems of Ireland and the UK: Measuring, comparing and decomposing longitudinal patterns of cabinet members
The role of higher education systems in the formation and reproduction of governing elites, and their countervailing potential for the creation of a more egalitarian, or meritocratic, society, has been an enduring subject of concern, debate and research. Many of these debates are made all the more difficult by our inability to directly compare elite formation systems within and between countries and over time. To resolve these problems, this pape…
Legitimising expertise: Analysing the legitimation strategies used by economics experts in broadcast interviews
Few would doubt that economists have taken a prominent role as experts on policy issues [Maesse, J. 2015. Economic experts: A discursive political economy of economics. Journal of Multicultural Discourses 10, no.3: 279–305] and some contend that no other social science discipline has gained such prominence [Fourcade, M., E. Ollion, and Y. Algan. 2015. The superiority of economists. Journal of Economic Perspectives 29, no.1: 89–114]. This prominen…
A Discursive Institutionalist Approach to Understanding Comparative Policy Change: I reland and M exico in the 1980s
Employing the critical juncture theory, a discursive institutionalist approach, this article examines the nature of changes to I rish industrial policy and to M exican macroeconomic policy in the early 1980s. Were these significant changes, or were they continuations of previously established policy pathways? The critical juncture theory consists of three elements—economic crisis, ideational change, and the nature of the policy change—that we mus…
Enabling deeper and more transferable analysis of economic expert discourse: A Commentary on Maesse's Economic Experts
Maesse's paper is a timely and significant contribution to the large and important debates on economists’, and more generally social scientists’, expertise and the roles such experts play in public
Developing an Elite Formation Index for Comparative Elite Studies: The Case of the Schooling of Irish and UK Cabinet Ministers
Elites and their formation have become a matter of increasing public concern and research interest in recent years. The lessons from such research can be made more generalisable if a measure of elite formation could be developed that is comparable across different elite formation systems, whether they differ by elite, time or country. But, the nature of elite formation renders this a complex task. Nevertheless, in this article, by building upon m…
Learning from interacting: Language, economics and the entrepreneur
Purpose – The purpose of this article is to provide a method of gaining transdisciplinary insight by focusing on keywords in the language we use. The language of economics dominates discourse about the economy. Analyzing this discourse from a great variety of perspectives has blossomed but promises much more. The study of the keyword “entrepreneur” illustrates the strengths and weaknesses of this diversity of perspectives, and also points to some…
Guaranteeing failure: Neoliberal discourse in the Irish economic crisis
We examine how the discourse in three radio interviews, between 2008 and 2010, with the then Irish Minister for Finance, constructed state support, including a banking guarantee, to private sector banks in Ireland. These interviews provide insights into the kind of neoliberal discourse that was prevalent in Ireland during what is referred to as the Celtic Tiger period. Neoliberal discourse is a free market ideology, yet it is precisely the workin…
Reflections in the eyes of a dying tiger: Looking back on Ireland’s 1987 economic crisis
Developing an Elite Formation Index for Comparative Elite Studies: The Case of the Schooling of Irish and UK Cabinet Ministers
Elites and their formation have become a matter of increasing public concern and research interest in recent years. The lessons from such research can be made more generalisable if a measure of elite formation could be developed that is comparable across different elite formation systems, whether they differ by elite, time or country. But, the nature of elite formation renders this a complex task. Nevertheless, in this article, by building upon m…
Guaranteeing failure: Neoliberal discourse in the Irish economic crisis
We examine how the discourse in three radio interviews, between 2008 and 2010, with the then Irish Minister for Finance, constructed state support, including a banking guarantee, to private sector banks in Ireland. These interviews provide insights into the kind of neoliberal discourse that was prevalent in Ireland during what is referred to as the Celtic Tiger period. Neoliberal discourse is a free market ideology, yet it is precisely the workin…
Elite formation in the higher education systems of Ireland and the UK: Measuring, comparing and decomposing longitudinal patterns of cabinet members
The role of higher education systems in the formation and reproduction of governing elites, and their countervailing potential for the creation of a more egalitarian, or meritocratic, society, has been an enduring subject of concern, debate and research. Many of these debates are made all the more difficult by our inability to directly compare elite formation systems within and between countries and over time. To resolve these problems, this pape…
Legitimising expertise: Analysing the legitimation strategies used by economics experts in broadcast interviews
Few would doubt that economists have taken a prominent role as experts on policy issues [Maesse, J. 2015. Economic experts: A discursive political economy of economics. Journal of Multicultural Discourses 10, no.3: 279–305] and some contend that no other social science discipline has gained such prominence [Fourcade, M., E. Ollion, and Y. Algan. 2015. The superiority of economists. Journal of Economic Perspectives 29, no.1: 89–114]. This prominen…
Learning from interacting: Language, economics and the entrepreneur
Purpose – The purpose of this article is to provide a method of gaining transdisciplinary insight by focusing on keywords in the language we use. The language of economics dominates discourse about the economy. Analyzing this discourse from a great variety of perspectives has blossomed but promises much more. The study of the keyword “entrepreneur” illustrates the strengths and weaknesses of this diversity of perspectives, and also points to some…
Ideological Presuppositions in Media Coverage of Corporation Tax Policy in the UK and Ireland: A Critical Discourse Analysis
This paper argues that the state’s capacity to tax corporations in order to fund itself is reaching crisis proportions. Following decades of trade liberalization, deregulation, and globalization, large multinational companies have been able to take advantage of tax competition between states in order to avoid taxation and offset their obligations. This crisis, arguably, has been facilitated by state actors and exacerbated by non-state actors: we …
Imagining the future in Irish budgets 1970–2015: A mixed-methods discourse analysis
Annual budgets are key to constituting and governing imagined futures. This paper examines how the signifier ‘future’ is constructed within the Irish budget speeches delivered by finance ministers to parliament between 1970 and 2015. To investigate the discourses of these budget speeches, we employ post-structural discourse theory operationalised through two methods: close reading and corpus-linguistic analysis. Close reading is used to identify …
Cooking a corporation tax controversy: Apple, Ireland and the EU
Given the centrality of corporations in distribution of income and wealth studies, discursive constructions of corporate taxation are essential to understanding the production of inequality. The focus of this study is an interview with Apple’s Chief Executive Tim Cook on the Irish state broadcaster, Raidió Teilifís Éireann’s (RTÉ) flagship news programme, Morning Ireland, following the ruling by the European Commission (EC) on the corporation tax…
A Discursive Institutionalist Approach to Understanding Comparative Policy Change: I reland and M exico in the 1980s
Employing the critical juncture theory, a discursive institutionalist approach, this article examines the nature of changes to I rish industrial policy and to M exican macroeconomic policy in the early 1980s. Were these significant changes, or were they continuations of previously established policy pathways? The critical juncture theory consists of three elements—economic crisis, ideational change, and the nature of the policy change—that we mus…
Enabling deeper and more transferable analysis of economic expert discourse: A Commentary on Maesse's Economic Experts
Maesse's paper is a timely and significant contribution to the large and important debates on economists’, and more generally social scientists’, expertise and the roles such experts play in public
Reflections in the eyes of a dying tiger: Looking back on Ireland’s 1987 economic crisis
Learning from interacting: Language, economics and the entrepreneur
Purpose – The purpose of this article is to provide a method of gaining transdisciplinary insight by focusing on keywords in the language we use. The language of economics dominates discourse about the economy. Analyzing this discourse from a great variety of perspectives has blossomed but promises much more. The study of the keyword “entrepreneur” illustrates the strengths and weaknesses of this diversity of perspectives, and also points to some…
Guaranteeing failure: Neoliberal discourse in the Irish economic crisis
We examine how the discourse in three radio interviews, between 2008 and 2010, with the then Irish Minister for Finance, constructed state support, including a banking guarantee, to private sector banks in Ireland. These interviews provide insights into the kind of neoliberal discourse that was prevalent in Ireland during what is referred to as the Celtic Tiger period. Neoliberal discourse is a free market ideology, yet it is precisely the workin…
A Discursive Institutionalist Approach to Understanding Comparative Policy Change: I reland and M exico in the 1980s
Employing the critical juncture theory, a discursive institutionalist approach, this article examines the nature of changes to I rish industrial policy and to M exican macroeconomic policy in the early 1980s. Were these significant changes, or were they continuations of previously established policy pathways? The critical juncture theory consists of three elements—economic crisis, ideational change, and the nature of the policy change—that we mus…
Enabling deeper and more transferable analysis of economic expert discourse: A Commentary on Maesse's Economic Experts
Maesse's paper is a timely and significant contribution to the large and important debates on economists’, and more generally social scientists’, expertise and the roles such experts play in public
Developing an Elite Formation Index for Comparative Elite Studies: The Case of the Schooling of Irish and UK Cabinet Ministers
Elites and their formation have become a matter of increasing public concern and research interest in recent years. The lessons from such research can be made more generalisable if a measure of elite formation could be developed that is comparable across different elite formation systems, whether they differ by elite, time or country. But, the nature of elite formation renders this a complex task. Nevertheless, in this article, by building upon m…
Legitimising expertise: Analysing the legitimation strategies used by economics experts in broadcast interviews
Few would doubt that economists have taken a prominent role as experts on policy issues [Maesse, J. 2015. Economic experts: A discursive political economy of economics. Journal of Multicultural Discourses 10, no.3: 279–305] and some contend that no other social science discipline has gained such prominence [Fourcade, M., E. Ollion, and Y. Algan. 2015. The superiority of economists. Journal of Economic Perspectives 29, no.1: 89–114]. This prominen…
Elite formation in the higher education systems of Ireland and the UK: Measuring, comparing and decomposing longitudinal patterns of cabinet members
The role of higher education systems in the formation and reproduction of governing elites, and their countervailing potential for the creation of a more egalitarian, or meritocratic, society, has been an enduring subject of concern, debate and research. Many of these debates are made all the more difficult by our inability to directly compare elite formation systems within and between countries and over time. To resolve these problems, this pape…
Cooking a corporation tax controversy: Apple, Ireland and the EU
Given the centrality of corporations in distribution of income and wealth studies, discursive constructions of corporate taxation are essential to understanding the production of inequality. The focus of this study is an interview with Apple’s Chief Executive Tim Cook on the Irish state broadcaster, Raidió Teilifís Éireann’s (RTÉ) flagship news programme, Morning Ireland, following the ruling by the European Commission (EC) on the corporation tax…
The rules of the game: Discursive norms and limits in the field of online art magazines
This article employs methods of discourse analysis and corpus linguistics within a Bourdieusian theoretical framework to examine the discursive norms and limits regulating the construction of reputation by online contemporary art magazines. Moving between quantitative and qualitative analysis of the websites of online contemporary art magazines, the article identifies salient patterns surrounding the use of modifiers and links these patterns to t…
Watchdogs of the Economy: The Development of the Irish Economics Profession's Independent Voice
Histories of the development of professions show a profession's relationship with the state as key to its authority. Yet professions, to gain technocratic authority, also strive to depoliticise their discourses to gain technocratic authority. This dilemmatic tension is particularly true for the economics profession. The historical development of the Irish economics provides an interesting case, where a complicated relationship with the state ulti…
Imagining the future in Irish budgets 1970–2015: A mixed-methods discourse analysis
Annual budgets are key to constituting and governing imagined futures. This paper examines how the signifier ‘future’ is constructed within the Irish budget speeches delivered by finance ministers to parliament between 1970 and 2015. To investigate the discourses of these budget speeches, we employ post-structural discourse theory operationalised through two methods: close reading and corpus-linguistic analysis. Close reading is used to identify …
Ideological Presuppositions in Media Coverage of Corporation Tax Policy in the UK and Ireland: A Critical Discourse Analysis
This paper argues that the state’s capacity to tax corporations in order to fund itself is reaching crisis proportions. Following decades of trade liberalization, deregulation, and globalization, large multinational companies have been able to take advantage of tax competition between states in order to avoid taxation and offset their obligations. This crisis, arguably, has been facilitated by state actors and exacerbated by non-state actors: we …
Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Irish (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works)