Michael Byrne
Biographic Data
| ID | 3719547 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Byrne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Byrne |
| SIGNATURE | BYRNE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2681-5510 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 215 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Capturing the context of drug use for college students
Drug use during college can have substantial harm on students’ lives and impacts the institutions’ functioning and local communities. Yet existing interventions for drug use at college poorly address the concurrent dynamic influences of the experiences in earlier developmental periods of young adults and the proximal contextual triggers of college life; both risk factors that contribute to drug use. In answer to this, system dynamic methods and c…
Post-neoliberalization and the Irish private rental sector
Recent years have witnessed new policy interventions in many countries seeking to get to grips with challenges in the private rental sector (PRS), including rent regulation and enhanced security of tenure. This raises the possibility of a shift away from market-based approaches which have characterized neoliberal housing regimes over recent decades. This article adds to emerging work on post-neoliberalism by examining policy change in the Irish P…
U.S. Marines and Nato’s Northern Flank
The U.S. Department of the Navy released A Strategic Blueprint for the Arctic on 5 January 2021. The Navy is focused on preparing for an Alaskan and “Blue” Arctic. Recognizing the changing landscape of the Arctic, the US Navy seeks to maintain a competitive edge, freedom of the seas, and deterrent effect. For the Marine Corps, both the 2021 document and the previous Advantage at Sea: Prevailing with Integrated All-Domain Naval Power, highlight th…
Secure occupancy, power and the landlord-tenant relation
Ireland has recently seen a wide-ranging attempt to reform its growing private rental sector. New legislation has strengthened security of tenure and regulated rents. However, these measures have been largely ineffective due to high levels of non-compliance on the part of landlords, which is in turn enabled by the absence of security for tenants. This article examines the interaction of security, tenants’ agency and the landlord-tenant power rela…
Rootlessness
Housing market financialization, neoliberalism and everyday retrenchment of social housing
Social housing policy in Ireland has evolved over several decades into a significantly marketized tenure which relies on, supports and expands the private housing market. In this paper we argue that it does so in ways that contribute to the financialization of housing by embedding housing in volatile financial market cycles. Although the majority of the literature on financialization, both in Ireland and internationally, has tended to focus on ho…
The Politics of Banking in Ireland
The chapter traces the historical development of banking and finance in Ireland. The financial system has historically been characterized by domestic economic weakness alongside significant activity by foreign firms, with state agencies filling the gap. Overall, the sector has been vulnerable to internationalization, and booms and risks. The chapter explores how, through the 1990s, it transformed from a sleepy backwater to one of the most financi…
The Political Economy of Housing in Ireland
This chapter examines the political economy of housing in Ireland since the turn of the nineteenth century. It identifies three phases. The early and mid-twentieth century saw enormous state intervention, with the Irish welfare state becoming property based and home ownership being socialized. The closing years of the twentieth century saw state intervention diminish, and the consequent shaping of housing dynamics by financial markets. This drove…
Funding resilient and fragile social housing systems in Ireland and Denmark
This article explores the impact of social housing financing arrangements for the fragility and resilience of this tenure as evidenced by its propensity to shrink or expand over the long-run. To do so, it examines the cases of Ireland and Denmark and employs and develops the concept of ‘financial circuits’. This concept refers to dynamic flows of capital and revenue which move through the built environment in ways which are structured by the diff…
Los «bancos malos» y la resolución de la crisis financiero-inmobiliaria en Europa
Este artículo se centra en las Sociedades de Gestión de Activos (SGA), o «bancos malos», creadas por parte de los gobiernos para adquirir y gestionar activos improductivos, a menudo vinculados con el sector inmobiliario, tras las crisis bancarias sistémicas. A pesar de que las SGA son entidades financieras muy importantes y con claras implicaciones urbanas, han recibido más bien poca atención. Este artículo examina ciertas SGA que se han creado d…
Generation rent and the financialization of housing
This article analyses the growth of the private rental sector over recent years through a comparative analysis of three classic homeowner societies: Ireland, the UK and Spain. The article argues that theories of financialization provide a useful framework for understanding ‘generation rent’. In particular, the cyclical nature of credit markets tends to undermine homeownership over the medium term. This contributes to and intensifies the wider set…
Tenure mixing to combat public housing stigmatization
Governing urban vacancy in post-crash dublin
The scale and severity of property crashes following the global financial crisis has made vacancy a more visible and politically significant feature of cities. Although research has focused on urban experiments in vacant spaces, there has been less emphasis on how the contested property relations around vacancy remake urban governance. In this paper, we argue that debates about vacancy have been a central concern in post-crisis urban governance. …
The principle of recognition
The article contributes to debates on the relationship between the state and ‘the people’ in post-national contexts, specifically those characterised by intra-state conflicts. The article critically theorises the articulation of this relationship in the Good Friday Agreement as part of the Northern Irish peace process. It employs the concept of ‘state universality’ to examine the way in which the state-people relationship is constructed on the ba…
Evaluating a primary care psychology service in Ireland
Primary care psychology services (PCPS) represent an important resource in meeting the various health needs of our communities. This study evaluated the PCPS in a two-county area within the Republic of Ireland. The objectives were to (i) examine the viewpoints of the service for both psychologists and stakeholders (healthcare professionals only) and (ii) examine the enactment of the stepped care model of service provision. Separate surveys were s…
Entrepreneurial Urbanism After the Crisis
The development of Dublin's Docklands was paradigmatic of the speculative storm that overwhelmed the Irish economy between the late 1990s and the crisis of 2008. It also served as a textbook case of entrepreneurial urbanism, with the development agency driving private-led development on a former industrial and waterfront site. Following the crash, however, the key actors have been decimated: the development agency itself, the developers and the b…
Asset Price Urbanism' and Financialization after the Crisis
The impact of the global financial crisis on cities is the subject of an important body of research. One aspect which has received surprisingly little attention is the urban dimension of government interventions in the financial sector, particularly given the integration of finance and real estate is widely understood as a key driver of the crisis. This article examines one such intervention, the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA), a 'bad ba…
Bad banks
Asset management companies (AMCs), such as Ireland’s National Asset Management Agency and Spain’s Socieded de Gestión de Activos Procedentes de la Reestructuración Bancaria (Management Company for Assets Arising from Bank Reorganisation, SAREB), are important policy responses to financial crises involving the acquisition and management of toxic debt. Given their massive real estate portfolios, AMCs have decisive urban impacts. And yet, there is a…
Escape into the City
In Dublin there are many needs and desires which are not met, or excluded, by the pattern of high rent, the commodification of social/cultural life, and the regulation of public space. Against this dynamic, Dublin has seen a number of experiments in urban commoning: people collectively finding ways of opening up space in order to do what they want. This might be as simple as wanting a space to work, to make food or to show films. Rather than tryi…
Modeling the Visual Search of Displays
Because of the visual nature of computer use, researchers and designers of computer systems would like to gain some insight into the visual search strategies of computer users. Icons, a common component of graphical user interfaces, serve as the focus for a set of studies aimed at (1) developing a detailed understanding of how people search for an icon in a typically crowded screen of other icons that vary in similarity to the target, and (2) bui…
The Efficacy of Behavioral Couples Therapy and Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couple Distress
Pairings of a distinctive chamber with the aftereffect of wheel running produce conditioned place preference
Critical thinking and science education
Science education often includes in its aims the development of critical-mindedness. This is usually regarded as one of a range of scientific attitudes. The paper presents a critical review of attempts to classify scientific attitudes, and the stereotype of the objective, detached scientist is discussed. It is argued that critical-mindedness depends on appropriate cognitive and affective inputs as well as critical thinking ability, and that conse…
Generation rent and the financialization of housing
This article analyses the growth of the private rental sector over recent years through a comparative analysis of three classic homeowner societies: Ireland, the UK and Spain. The article argues that theories of financialization provide a useful framework for understanding ‘generation rent’. In particular, the cyclical nature of credit markets tends to undermine homeownership over the medium term. This contributes to and intensifies the wider set…
Escape into the City
In Dublin there are many needs and desires which are not met, or excluded, by the pattern of high rent, the commodification of social/cultural life, and the regulation of public space. Against this dynamic, Dublin has seen a number of experiments in urban commoning: people collectively finding ways of opening up space in order to do what they want. This might be as simple as wanting a space to work, to make food or to show films. Rather than tryi…
Asset Price Urbanism' and Financialization after the Crisis
The impact of the global financial crisis on cities is the subject of an important body of research. One aspect which has received surprisingly little attention is the urban dimension of government interventions in the financial sector, particularly given the integration of finance and real estate is widely understood as a key driver of the crisis. This article examines one such intervention, the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA), a 'bad ba…
Housing market financialization, neoliberalism and everyday retrenchment of social housing
Social housing policy in Ireland has evolved over several decades into a significantly marketized tenure which relies on, supports and expands the private housing market. In this paper we argue that it does so in ways that contribute to the financialization of housing by embedding housing in volatile financial market cycles. Although the majority of the literature on financialization, both in Ireland and internationally, has tended to focus on ho…
Governing urban vacancy in post-crash dublin
The scale and severity of property crashes following the global financial crisis has made vacancy a more visible and politically significant feature of cities. Although research has focused on urban experiments in vacant spaces, there has been less emphasis on how the contested property relations around vacancy remake urban governance. In this paper, we argue that debates about vacancy have been a central concern in post-crisis urban governance. …
Secure occupancy, power and the landlord-tenant relation
Ireland has recently seen a wide-ranging attempt to reform its growing private rental sector. New legislation has strengthened security of tenure and regulated rents. However, these measures have been largely ineffective due to high levels of non-compliance on the part of landlords, which is in turn enabled by the absence of security for tenants. This article examines the interaction of security, tenants’ agency and the landlord-tenant power rela…
The Efficacy of Behavioral Couples Therapy and Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couple Distress
Entrepreneurial Urbanism After the Crisis
The development of Dublin's Docklands was paradigmatic of the speculative storm that overwhelmed the Irish economy between the late 1990s and the crisis of 2008. It also served as a textbook case of entrepreneurial urbanism, with the development agency driving private-led development on a former industrial and waterfront site. Following the crash, however, the key actors have been decimated: the development agency itself, the developers and the b…
Tenure mixing to combat public housing stigmatization
Post-neoliberalization and the Irish private rental sector
Recent years have witnessed new policy interventions in many countries seeking to get to grips with challenges in the private rental sector (PRS), including rent regulation and enhanced security of tenure. This raises the possibility of a shift away from market-based approaches which have characterized neoliberal housing regimes over recent decades. This article adds to emerging work on post-neoliberalism by examining policy change in the Irish P…
Rootlessness
Funding resilient and fragile social housing systems in Ireland and Denmark
This article explores the impact of social housing financing arrangements for the fragility and resilience of this tenure as evidenced by its propensity to shrink or expand over the long-run. To do so, it examines the cases of Ireland and Denmark and employs and develops the concept of ‘financial circuits’. This concept refers to dynamic flows of capital and revenue which move through the built environment in ways which are structured by the diff…
Pairings of a distinctive chamber with the aftereffect of wheel running produce conditioned place preference
Evaluating a primary care psychology service in Ireland
Primary care psychology services (PCPS) represent an important resource in meeting the various health needs of our communities. This study evaluated the PCPS in a two-county area within the Republic of Ireland. The objectives were to (i) examine the viewpoints of the service for both psychologists and stakeholders (healthcare professionals only) and (ii) examine the enactment of the stepped care model of service provision. Separate surveys were s…
Critical thinking and science education
Science education often includes in its aims the development of critical-mindedness. This is usually regarded as one of a range of scientific attitudes. The paper presents a critical review of attempts to classify scientific attitudes, and the stereotype of the objective, detached scientist is discussed. It is argued that critical-mindedness depends on appropriate cognitive and affective inputs as well as critical thinking ability, and that conse…
Pairings of a distinctive chamber with the aftereffect of wheel running produce conditioned place preference
The Efficacy of Behavioral Couples Therapy and Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couple Distress
Modeling the Visual Search of Displays
Because of the visual nature of computer use, researchers and designers of computer systems would like to gain some insight into the visual search strategies of computer users. Icons, a common component of graphical user interfaces, serve as the focus for a set of studies aimed at (1) developing a detailed understanding of how people search for an icon in a typically crowded screen of other icons that vary in similarity to the target, and (2) bui…
Bad banks
Asset management companies (AMCs), such as Ireland’s National Asset Management Agency and Spain’s Socieded de Gestión de Activos Procedentes de la Reestructuración Bancaria (Management Company for Assets Arising from Bank Reorganisation, SAREB), are important policy responses to financial crises involving the acquisition and management of toxic debt. Given their massive real estate portfolios, AMCs have decisive urban impacts. And yet, there is a…
Escape into the City
In Dublin there are many needs and desires which are not met, or excluded, by the pattern of high rent, the commodification of social/cultural life, and the regulation of public space. Against this dynamic, Dublin has seen a number of experiments in urban commoning: people collectively finding ways of opening up space in order to do what they want. This might be as simple as wanting a space to work, to make food or to show films. Rather than tryi…
The principle of recognition
The article contributes to debates on the relationship between the state and ‘the people’ in post-national contexts, specifically those characterised by intra-state conflicts. The article critically theorises the articulation of this relationship in the Good Friday Agreement as part of the Northern Irish peace process. It employs the concept of ‘state universality’ to examine the way in which the state-people relationship is constructed on the ba…
Evaluating a primary care psychology service in Ireland
Primary care psychology services (PCPS) represent an important resource in meeting the various health needs of our communities. This study evaluated the PCPS in a two-county area within the Republic of Ireland. The objectives were to (i) examine the viewpoints of the service for both psychologists and stakeholders (healthcare professionals only) and (ii) examine the enactment of the stepped care model of service provision. Separate surveys were s…
Entrepreneurial Urbanism After the Crisis
The development of Dublin's Docklands was paradigmatic of the speculative storm that overwhelmed the Irish economy between the late 1990s and the crisis of 2008. It also served as a textbook case of entrepreneurial urbanism, with the development agency driving private-led development on a former industrial and waterfront site. Following the crash, however, the key actors have been decimated: the development agency itself, the developers and the b…
Asset Price Urbanism' and Financialization after the Crisis
The impact of the global financial crisis on cities is the subject of an important body of research. One aspect which has received surprisingly little attention is the urban dimension of government interventions in the financial sector, particularly given the integration of finance and real estate is widely understood as a key driver of the crisis. This article examines one such intervention, the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA), a 'bad ba…
Governing urban vacancy in post-crash dublin
The scale and severity of property crashes following the global financial crisis has made vacancy a more visible and politically significant feature of cities. Although research has focused on urban experiments in vacant spaces, there has been less emphasis on how the contested property relations around vacancy remake urban governance. In this paper, we argue that debates about vacancy have been a central concern in post-crisis urban governance. …
Tenure mixing to combat public housing stigmatization
Los «bancos malos» y la resolución de la crisis financiero-inmobiliaria en Europa
Este artículo se centra en las Sociedades de Gestión de Activos (SGA), o «bancos malos», creadas por parte de los gobiernos para adquirir y gestionar activos improductivos, a menudo vinculados con el sector inmobiliario, tras las crisis bancarias sistémicas. A pesar de que las SGA son entidades financieras muy importantes y con claras implicaciones urbanas, han recibido más bien poca atención. Este artículo examina ciertas SGA que se han creado d…
Generation rent and the financialization of housing
This article analyses the growth of the private rental sector over recent years through a comparative analysis of three classic homeowner societies: Ireland, the UK and Spain. The article argues that theories of financialization provide a useful framework for understanding ‘generation rent’. In particular, the cyclical nature of credit markets tends to undermine homeownership over the medium term. This contributes to and intensifies the wider set…
The Politics of Banking in Ireland
The chapter traces the historical development of banking and finance in Ireland. The financial system has historically been characterized by domestic economic weakness alongside significant activity by foreign firms, with state agencies filling the gap. Overall, the sector has been vulnerable to internationalization, and booms and risks. The chapter explores how, through the 1990s, it transformed from a sleepy backwater to one of the most financi…
The Political Economy of Housing in Ireland
This chapter examines the political economy of housing in Ireland since the turn of the nineteenth century. It identifies three phases. The early and mid-twentieth century saw enormous state intervention, with the Irish welfare state becoming property based and home ownership being socialized. The closing years of the twentieth century saw state intervention diminish, and the consequent shaping of housing dynamics by financial markets. This drove…
Funding resilient and fragile social housing systems in Ireland and Denmark
This article explores the impact of social housing financing arrangements for the fragility and resilience of this tenure as evidenced by its propensity to shrink or expand over the long-run. To do so, it examines the cases of Ireland and Denmark and employs and develops the concept of ‘financial circuits’. This concept refers to dynamic flows of capital and revenue which move through the built environment in ways which are structured by the diff…
U.S. Marines and Nato’s Northern Flank
The U.S. Department of the Navy released A Strategic Blueprint for the Arctic on 5 January 2021. The Navy is focused on preparing for an Alaskan and “Blue” Arctic. Recognizing the changing landscape of the Arctic, the US Navy seeks to maintain a competitive edge, freedom of the seas, and deterrent effect. For the Marine Corps, both the 2021 document and the previous Advantage at Sea: Prevailing with Integrated All-Domain Naval Power, highlight th…
Secure occupancy, power and the landlord-tenant relation
Ireland has recently seen a wide-ranging attempt to reform its growing private rental sector. New legislation has strengthened security of tenure and regulated rents. However, these measures have been largely ineffective due to high levels of non-compliance on the part of landlords, which is in turn enabled by the absence of security for tenants. This article examines the interaction of security, tenants’ agency and the landlord-tenant power rela…
Rootlessness
Housing market financialization, neoliberalism and everyday retrenchment of social housing
Social housing policy in Ireland has evolved over several decades into a significantly marketized tenure which relies on, supports and expands the private housing market. In this paper we argue that it does so in ways that contribute to the financialization of housing by embedding housing in volatile financial market cycles. Although the majority of the literature on financialization, both in Ireland and internationally, has tended to focus on ho…
Capturing the context of drug use for college students
Drug use during college can have substantial harm on students’ lives and impacts the institutions’ functioning and local communities. Yet existing interventions for drug use at college poorly address the concurrent dynamic influences of the experiences in earlier developmental periods of young adults and the proximal contextual triggers of college life; both risk factors that contribute to drug use. In answer to this, system dynamic methods and c…
Post-neoliberalization and the Irish private rental sector
Recent years have witnessed new policy interventions in many countries seeking to get to grips with challenges in the private rental sector (PRS), including rent regulation and enhanced security of tenure. This raises the possibility of a shift away from market-based approaches which have characterized neoliberal housing regimes over recent decades. This article adds to emerging work on post-neoliberalism by examining policy change in the Irish P…
Political science (16 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (15 works) · Economics (14 works) · Business (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Political economy (7 works)