Mary P Murphy
Biographic Data
| ID | 376640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary P Murphy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary P |
| FAMILY NAME | Murphy |
| SIGNATURE | MURPHY M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Ireland, Maynooth |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0127-296X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Towards a Just Transition in Ireland and the European Union: A critical overview of the policy frameworks
This article is primarily a scene-setting one, which aims to give the reader both European Union (EU) and Irish institutional and policy context for this special edition. It presents and discusses the EU and national institutional and policy contexts relevant to the Just Transition (JT) and addresses relevant aspects and issues. Our interest is in the institutions and policies that shape or limit our capacity to change the conversation to what is…
Using Text Mining to Elucidate Mental Models of Problem Spaces for Ill-Structured Problems
Creating an Ecosocial Welfare Future
Creating an Ecosocial Welfare Future: Making It Happen
The book integrates ecological and social arguments in identifying the problems and solutions to issues of contemporary sustainability. Intentionally light in its presentation of theory, key concepts discussed include commodification, globalisation, sustainability, institutions, services, income, participation, imaginaries, transformation, and power. The book focuses on the problem; the cojoined realities of increasing inequality and environmenta…
Creating an Ecosocial Welfare Future: Making It Happen
Commodification and decommodification
Systems Thinking and Modeling: From Butterfly Posture to Artificial Intelligence
A Multi-Dimensional View of Stigma Experienced by Lone Parents in Irish Homeless and Employment Services
This critical and empirical article explores contemporary reproduction, experience, and responses to stigma in welfare delivery in Ireland. Combining qualitative data about lone parents (n22) gathered through two different research projects in 2017 and 2018 allows us to interrogate stigma in a multi-dimensional way and as an overarching experience as an ongoing project of neo liberalism. We analyse our findings using Baumberg’s (2016) typology of…
Building the Future from the Present: Imagining Post-Growth, Post-Productivist Ecosocial Policy
The environment remains on the margins of social policy. Bringing degrowth literature into conversation with social policy debates about decommodification, we argue that a re-imagined decommodification remains central to addressing the social-ecological challenges we face and to forging a post-growth, post-productivist ecosocial welfare state. We explore the implications of this for re-imagining and mapping three core areas of an ecosocial welfar…
Policy Analysis in Ireland
The Political Economy of Work and Welfare
The political economy of Irish work and welfare has dramatically changed over recent decades. Since the 1980s, Ireland has experienced two periods of high unemployment followed by two periods of full employment. Alongside this, we see considerable shifts in both the sectoral composition of the workforce and in the institutional architecture underpinning the labour market. Focusing on the last decade, this chapter contextualizes the Irish labour m…
Policy Analysis in Ireland
This volume constitutes the Irish element in the ever-expanding International Library of Policy Analysis series, edited by Michael Howlett and Iris Geva-May and published by Policy Press. It provides unique insights into the state of policy analysis in Ireland. It draws together contributions from some of the leading policy analysis experts, both academics and practitioners, to provide a multidimensional set of perspectives on how policy analysis…
Common shock, different paths? Comparing social policy responses to Covid ‐19 in the UK and Ireland
The UK and Ireland responded to the rapid health and economic impacts of COVID‐19 by supporting incomes through job retention and job loss instruments, However distinct policy legacies, political and institutional differences between the two countries mean critical differences in both the nature and the relative weight placed on these instruments. The UK income support package was announced in one go and centred on a generous, newly created Job R…
Will Ireland’s youth once again pay for their elders’ crisis
The abstract is included in the text
Dual conditionality in welfare and housing for lone parents in Ireland: Change and continuity
This article focuses on multiple conditionalities in benefits and housing from the perspective of lone parents in Ireland. The Irish case echoes historical experiences elsewhere and is offered not as an exceptional or extreme case but as an in‐depth single case study and a lens for comparison. Although contemporary forms and combinations of conditionalities are new to Ireland, the experience of multiple conditionalities in benefits and housing is…
Workfare redux? Pandemic unemployment, labour activation and the lessons of post-crisis welfare reform in Ireland
Purpose This paper addresses the labour market impacts of Covid-19, the necessity of active labour policy reform in response to this pandemic unemployment crisis and what trajectory this reform is likely to take as countries shift attention from emergency income supports to stimulating employment recovery. Design/methodology/approach The study draws on Ireland’s experience, as an illustrative case. This is motivated by the scale of Covid-related …
Ode to an invisible woman: The story of qualified adults and partners in Ireland
Ireland used the Great Recession as an opportunity to pursue controversial reforms to lone parent social security payments while ignoring a significantly larger group of Irish women, qualified adults, the partners of coupled social welfare claimants. A review of the international literature about partners and recent policy trends is used to contextualise previously unpublished qualitative data capturing the practical experience of Irish partners …
Irish Flex‐insecurity: The Post‐crisis Reality for Vulnerable Workers in Ireland
Institutional reconfigurations of Irish welfare architecture and specific policy regimes including social security, labour activation and employment regulation have reshaped the contemporary low‐paid labour market with more focus on flexibility than security. Irish workers, particularly women, young people and vulnerable migrant workers are more likely to experience a form of labour market precarity we term ‘flex‐insecurity’. This Irish form of f…
The Irish Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century
In this chapter, Ó hAdhmaill argues that responses to the global economic crisis which emerged in 2008 reflected a dominant ideological discourse, with ‘austerity’ being a tool in a wider agenda to reassert neoliberalist thinking in the global economy and welfare provision in the richer countries. In Ireland, North and South, however, the experience of, and responses to, the crisis and ‘austerity’ were different, reflecting different social, econ…
Irish Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Change
Low road or high road? The post-crisis trajectory of Irish activation
Comparatively slow in adopting any clear activation strategy, post-crisis Ireland crossed the Rubicon and rapidly took steps to implement a work-first labour activation strategy. The article maps and examines the interaction of three variables – ideational influences, political interests and institutional processes – to assess the nature of post-crisis Irish activation policy. Troika imposition of aid conditionality, the ideational role of the OE…
Gendered Mobilizations against Austerity in Ireland
This article examines the impact of the economic and social crisis in shaping political agency in women's and feminist organizations in the context of Irish austerity. Examining forms of political agency exercised by women in a range of gendered mobilizations, we isolate examples of defensive agency that seek to protect women's interests from fiscal retrenchment. Despite the damage to gender infrastructure we argue that feminist agency remains cr…
Translating Degrowth into Contemporary Policy Challenges: A Symbiotic Social Transformation Strategy
Wright poses us the challenge of building a world of equality while working in the world of today. This article addresses the challenge of transitioning to a degrowth economy and eco-socialism which focuses on distribution over production and which requires a strong ethic of equality at the heart of society. Degrowth aims to address over-consumption by addressing real need, reducing wants, ensuring greater distributive equality and ultimately by …
Privatisation in Ireland: Lessons From a European Economy ‐ by Donal Palcic and Eoin Reeves
Towards a Second Republic: Irish Politics after the Celtic Tiger
Gendered Mobilizations against Austerity in Ireland
This article examines the impact of the economic and social crisis in shaping political agency in women's and feminist organizations in the context of Irish austerity. Examining forms of political agency exercised by women in a range of gendered mobilizations, we isolate examples of defensive agency that seek to protect women's interests from fiscal retrenchment. Despite the damage to gender infrastructure we argue that feminist agency remains cr…
Common shock, different paths? Comparing social policy responses to Covid ‐19 in the UK and Ireland
The UK and Ireland responded to the rapid health and economic impacts of COVID‐19 by supporting incomes through job retention and job loss instruments, However distinct policy legacies, political and institutional differences between the two countries mean critical differences in both the nature and the relative weight placed on these instruments. The UK income support package was announced in one go and centred on a generous, newly created Job R…
Building the Future from the Present: Imagining Post-Growth, Post-Productivist Ecosocial Policy
The environment remains on the margins of social policy. Bringing degrowth literature into conversation with social policy debates about decommodification, we argue that a re-imagined decommodification remains central to addressing the social-ecological challenges we face and to forging a post-growth, post-productivist ecosocial welfare state. We explore the implications of this for re-imagining and mapping three core areas of an ecosocial welfar…
Low road or high road? The post-crisis trajectory of Irish activation
Comparatively slow in adopting any clear activation strategy, post-crisis Ireland crossed the Rubicon and rapidly took steps to implement a work-first labour activation strategy. The article maps and examines the interaction of three variables – ideational influences, political interests and institutional processes – to assess the nature of post-crisis Irish activation policy. Troika imposition of aid conditionality, the ideational role of the OE…
Workfare redux? Pandemic unemployment, labour activation and the lessons of post-crisis welfare reform in Ireland
Purpose This paper addresses the labour market impacts of Covid-19, the necessity of active labour policy reform in response to this pandemic unemployment crisis and what trajectory this reform is likely to take as countries shift attention from emergency income supports to stimulating employment recovery. Design/methodology/approach The study draws on Ireland’s experience, as an illustrative case. This is motivated by the scale of Covid-related …
Irish Flex‐insecurity: The Post‐crisis Reality for Vulnerable Workers in Ireland
Institutional reconfigurations of Irish welfare architecture and specific policy regimes including social security, labour activation and employment regulation have reshaped the contemporary low‐paid labour market with more focus on flexibility than security. Irish workers, particularly women, young people and vulnerable migrant workers are more likely to experience a form of labour market precarity we term ‘flex‐insecurity’. This Irish form of f…
A Multi-Dimensional View of Stigma Experienced by Lone Parents in Irish Homeless and Employment Services
This critical and empirical article explores contemporary reproduction, experience, and responses to stigma in welfare delivery in Ireland. Combining qualitative data about lone parents (n22) gathered through two different research projects in 2017 and 2018 allows us to interrogate stigma in a multi-dimensional way and as an overarching experience as an ongoing project of neo liberalism. We analyse our findings using Baumberg’s (2016) typology of…
Towards a Second Republic: Irish Politics after the Celtic Tiger
Civil Society in the Shadow of the Irish State
The dominant perception is that Irish society has responded to the current economic crisis in a relatively muted, moderate and passive fashion. How can we explain this apparent absence of political contestation or protest in Irish civil society? Various cultural and historical explanations can partially explain this apparent passivity; the approach here complements these explanations by exploring the institutional nature of the Irish state as an …
Towards a Second Republic: Irish Politics after the Celtic Tiger
List of Tables List of Figures List of Boxes Glossary of Irish Political Terms and Political Titles Abbreviations Preface 1. Introduction: Ireland and the Future of Capitalism Part I: The Irish State 2. Irish Politics 3. The Irish State Bureaucracy Section II: The Celtic Tiger Model 4. Managing the Irish Boom 5. The Losers 6. The Winners Section III: International Context 7. The European Union 8. Reykjavik and Beyond Section IV: Towards a Second …
Privatisation in Ireland: Lessons From a European Economy ‐ by Donal Palcic and Eoin Reeves
Translating Degrowth into Contemporary Policy Challenges: A Symbiotic Social Transformation Strategy
Wright poses us the challenge of building a world of equality while working in the world of today. This article addresses the challenge of transitioning to a degrowth economy and eco-socialism which focuses on distribution over production and which requires a strong ethic of equality at the heart of society. Degrowth aims to address over-consumption by addressing real need, reducing wants, ensuring greater distributive equality and ultimately by …
The Irish Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century
In this chapter, Ó hAdhmaill argues that responses to the global economic crisis which emerged in 2008 reflected a dominant ideological discourse, with ‘austerity’ being a tool in a wider agenda to reassert neoliberalist thinking in the global economy and welfare provision in the richer countries. In Ireland, North and South, however, the experience of, and responses to, the crisis and ‘austerity’ were different, reflecting different social, econ…
Irish Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Change
Low road or high road? The post-crisis trajectory of Irish activation
Comparatively slow in adopting any clear activation strategy, post-crisis Ireland crossed the Rubicon and rapidly took steps to implement a work-first labour activation strategy. The article maps and examines the interaction of three variables – ideational influences, political interests and institutional processes – to assess the nature of post-crisis Irish activation policy. Troika imposition of aid conditionality, the ideational role of the OE…
Gendered Mobilizations against Austerity in Ireland
This article examines the impact of the economic and social crisis in shaping political agency in women's and feminist organizations in the context of Irish austerity. Examining forms of political agency exercised by women in a range of gendered mobilizations, we isolate examples of defensive agency that seek to protect women's interests from fiscal retrenchment. Despite the damage to gender infrastructure we argue that feminist agency remains cr…
Irish Flex‐insecurity: The Post‐crisis Reality for Vulnerable Workers in Ireland
Institutional reconfigurations of Irish welfare architecture and specific policy regimes including social security, labour activation and employment regulation have reshaped the contemporary low‐paid labour market with more focus on flexibility than security. Irish workers, particularly women, young people and vulnerable migrant workers are more likely to experience a form of labour market precarity we term ‘flex‐insecurity’. This Irish form of f…
Ode to an invisible woman: The story of qualified adults and partners in Ireland
Ireland used the Great Recession as an opportunity to pursue controversial reforms to lone parent social security payments while ignoring a significantly larger group of Irish women, qualified adults, the partners of coupled social welfare claimants. A review of the international literature about partners and recent policy trends is used to contextualise previously unpublished qualitative data capturing the practical experience of Irish partners …
Will Ireland’s youth once again pay for their elders’ crisis
The abstract is included in the text
Dual conditionality in welfare and housing for lone parents in Ireland: Change and continuity
This article focuses on multiple conditionalities in benefits and housing from the perspective of lone parents in Ireland. The Irish case echoes historical experiences elsewhere and is offered not as an exceptional or extreme case but as an in‐depth single case study and a lens for comparison. Although contemporary forms and combinations of conditionalities are new to Ireland, the experience of multiple conditionalities in benefits and housing is…
Workfare redux? Pandemic unemployment, labour activation and the lessons of post-crisis welfare reform in Ireland
Purpose This paper addresses the labour market impacts of Covid-19, the necessity of active labour policy reform in response to this pandemic unemployment crisis and what trajectory this reform is likely to take as countries shift attention from emergency income supports to stimulating employment recovery. Design/methodology/approach The study draws on Ireland’s experience, as an illustrative case. This is motivated by the scale of Covid-related …
Policy Analysis in Ireland
The Political Economy of Work and Welfare
The political economy of Irish work and welfare has dramatically changed over recent decades. Since the 1980s, Ireland has experienced two periods of high unemployment followed by two periods of full employment. Alongside this, we see considerable shifts in both the sectoral composition of the workforce and in the institutional architecture underpinning the labour market. Focusing on the last decade, this chapter contextualizes the Irish labour m…
Policy Analysis in Ireland
This volume constitutes the Irish element in the ever-expanding International Library of Policy Analysis series, edited by Michael Howlett and Iris Geva-May and published by Policy Press. It provides unique insights into the state of policy analysis in Ireland. It draws together contributions from some of the leading policy analysis experts, both academics and practitioners, to provide a multidimensional set of perspectives on how policy analysis…
Common shock, different paths? Comparing social policy responses to Covid ‐19 in the UK and Ireland
The UK and Ireland responded to the rapid health and economic impacts of COVID‐19 by supporting incomes through job retention and job loss instruments, However distinct policy legacies, political and institutional differences between the two countries mean critical differences in both the nature and the relative weight placed on these instruments. The UK income support package was announced in one go and centred on a generous, newly created Job R…
A Multi-Dimensional View of Stigma Experienced by Lone Parents in Irish Homeless and Employment Services
This critical and empirical article explores contemporary reproduction, experience, and responses to stigma in welfare delivery in Ireland. Combining qualitative data about lone parents (n22) gathered through two different research projects in 2017 and 2018 allows us to interrogate stigma in a multi-dimensional way and as an overarching experience as an ongoing project of neo liberalism. We analyse our findings using Baumberg’s (2016) typology of…
Building the Future from the Present: Imagining Post-Growth, Post-Productivist Ecosocial Policy
The environment remains on the margins of social policy. Bringing degrowth literature into conversation with social policy debates about decommodification, we argue that a re-imagined decommodification remains central to addressing the social-ecological challenges we face and to forging a post-growth, post-productivist ecosocial welfare state. We explore the implications of this for re-imagining and mapping three core areas of an ecosocial welfar…
Creating an Ecosocial Welfare Future
Creating an Ecosocial Welfare Future: Making It Happen
The book integrates ecological and social arguments in identifying the problems and solutions to issues of contemporary sustainability. Intentionally light in its presentation of theory, key concepts discussed include commodification, globalisation, sustainability, institutions, services, income, participation, imaginaries, transformation, and power. The book focuses on the problem; the cojoined realities of increasing inequality and environmenta…
Creating an Ecosocial Welfare Future: Making It Happen
Commodification and decommodification
Systems Thinking and Modeling: From Butterfly Posture to Artificial Intelligence
Political science (22 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Irish (10 works) · Welfare (9 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (7 works) · Law (7 works)