Stephen Gaffney
Biographic Data
| ID | 4420093 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Gaffney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Gaffney |
| SIGNATURE | GAFFNEY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1215-5627 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
When whistleblower retaliation backfires: Reprisal reversal and racialized retaliation at Amazon
Can aggressive whistleblower retaliation be turned back upon the employer? Existing scholarship on whistleblower retaliation in organizations has largely examined its destructive effects on individual whistleblowers. In this article, we foreground the opposite dynamic: the capacity for whistleblowers and their supporters to counter retaliation so that employer attacks ultimately backfire. Drawing on Martin’s backfire framework—derived from studie…
Beyond market vs. social citizenship: Economic imperatives and the building of a pan-European labour market
This paper contributes to old and new academic debates concerning European citizenship, and aims to overcome the dichotomy between social citizenship, on the one hand, and market citizenship, on the other. We make the case that European citizenship has been socio-economic by nature, since the emergence of transnational rights was consubstantial with economic freedom and market-building, long before the introduction of EU citizenship status in the…
Youth unemployment as a policy problem for the OECD, European Union, and the Republic of Ireland in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis
The ‘pathologically state dependent’ versus ‘middle-aged ministers on mammoth salaries: The legitimation contest over a 2013 austerity measure in the Republic of Ireland
This paper provides a discourse analysis of the political and media debate surrounding a 2013 austerity measure that targeted unemployed young people in the Republic of Ireland. Applying Van Leeuwen’s ‘justificatory schema’ it reveals the legitimation of this measure relied on an ‘anti-welfare populist’ framing of the young unemployed as ‘welfare dependent’ and thus ‘undeserving’. Furthermore, this analysis finds that those opposed to this auster…
Rational skivers or desperate strivers? The problematisation of fraud in the Irish social protection system
The Irish social protection system has taken an increasingly workfarist turn in the post-crisis era. Concurrently, ‘welfare fraud’ emerged as a contentious political issue, leading some commentators to argue certain groups of welfare claimants have been cast as ‘scapegoats’ for widely experienced financial hardship. This article brings these two points of inquiry together for the first time by critically engaging with two anti-fraud strategy poli…
Rational skivers or desperate strivers? The problematisation of fraud in the Irish social protection system
The Irish social protection system has taken an increasingly workfarist turn in the post-crisis era. Concurrently, ‘welfare fraud’ emerged as a contentious political issue, leading some commentators to argue certain groups of welfare claimants have been cast as ‘scapegoats’ for widely experienced financial hardship. This article brings these two points of inquiry together for the first time by critically engaging with two anti-fraud strategy poli…
The ‘pathologically state dependent’ versus ‘middle-aged ministers on mammoth salaries: The legitimation contest over a 2013 austerity measure in the Republic of Ireland
This paper provides a discourse analysis of the political and media debate surrounding a 2013 austerity measure that targeted unemployed young people in the Republic of Ireland. Applying Van Leeuwen’s ‘justificatory schema’ it reveals the legitimation of this measure relied on an ‘anti-welfare populist’ framing of the young unemployed as ‘welfare dependent’ and thus ‘undeserving’. Furthermore, this analysis finds that those opposed to this auster…
Rational skivers or desperate strivers? The problematisation of fraud in the Irish social protection system
The Irish social protection system has taken an increasingly workfarist turn in the post-crisis era. Concurrently, ‘welfare fraud’ emerged as a contentious political issue, leading some commentators to argue certain groups of welfare claimants have been cast as ‘scapegoats’ for widely experienced financial hardship. This article brings these two points of inquiry together for the first time by critically engaging with two anti-fraud strategy poli…
The ‘pathologically state dependent’ versus ‘middle-aged ministers on mammoth salaries: The legitimation contest over a 2013 austerity measure in the Republic of Ireland
This paper provides a discourse analysis of the political and media debate surrounding a 2013 austerity measure that targeted unemployed young people in the Republic of Ireland. Applying Van Leeuwen’s ‘justificatory schema’ it reveals the legitimation of this measure relied on an ‘anti-welfare populist’ framing of the young unemployed as ‘welfare dependent’ and thus ‘undeserving’. Furthermore, this analysis finds that those opposed to this auster…
When whistleblower retaliation backfires: Reprisal reversal and racialized retaliation at Amazon
Can aggressive whistleblower retaliation be turned back upon the employer? Existing scholarship on whistleblower retaliation in organizations has largely examined its destructive effects on individual whistleblowers. In this article, we foreground the opposite dynamic: the capacity for whistleblowers and their supporters to counter retaliation so that employer attacks ultimately backfire. Drawing on Martin’s backfire framework—derived from studie…
Beyond market vs. social citizenship: Economic imperatives and the building of a pan-European labour market
This paper contributes to old and new academic debates concerning European citizenship, and aims to overcome the dichotomy between social citizenship, on the one hand, and market citizenship, on the other. We make the case that European citizenship has been socio-economic by nature, since the emergence of transnational rights was consubstantial with economic freedom and market-building, long before the introduction of EU citizenship status in the…
Youth unemployment as a policy problem for the OECD, European Union, and the Republic of Ireland in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis
Political science (4 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Austerity (1 works) · Bureaucracy (1 works)