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The Irish Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century

Challenges and Change

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Editors:
  1. Mary P. Murphy

    1. Department of Sociology, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland

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  2. Fiona Dukelow

    1. School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Introduction

    • Mary P. Murphy, Fiona Dukelow
    Pages 1-12

  3. Welfare States: How They Change and Why

    • Fiona Dukelow, Mary P. Murphy
    Pages 13-35

  4. The Irish Social Protection System: Change in Comparative Context

    • Mel Cousins
    Pages 37-65

  5. Activation: Solving Unemployment or Supporting a Low-Pay Economy?

    • Micheál L. Collins, Mary P. Murphy
    Pages 67-92

  6. Redistribution in the Irish Pension System: Upside Down?

    • Gerard Hughes, Michelle Maher
    Pages 93-118

  7. Personal Finance: Financial Services, Access to Credit and Debt Management

    • Stuart Stamp
    Pages 119-139

  8. Irish Water Services Reform: Past, Present and Future

    • Fiona Dukelow
    Pages 141-165

  9. Reform of the Irish Healthcare System: What Reform?

    • Sara Burke
    Pages 167-191

  10. Early Childhood Education and Care: A Neglected Policy Arena?

    • Nóirín Hayes
    Pages 193-214

  11. New Managerialism: A Political Project in Irish Education

    • Bernie Grummell, Kathleen Lynch
    Pages 215-235

  12. Social Housing Policy and Provision: A Changing Regime?

    • Joe Finnerty, Cathal O’Connell, Siobhan O’Sullivan
    Pages 237-259

  13. Crisis and Corporate Welfare

    • Nat O’Connor, Paul Sweeney
    Pages 261-285

  14. Ireland and Crisis: One Island, Two Different Experiences

    • Féilim Ó’hAdhmaill
    Pages 287-308

  15. Conclusion: The Changing Irish Welfare State

    • Mary P. Murphy, Fiona Dukelow
    Pages 309-326

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 327-337
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About this book

This book provides a critical and theoretically-informed assessment of the nature and types of structural change occurring in the Irish welfare state in the context of the 2008 economic crisis. Its overarching framework for conceptualising and analysing welfare state change and its political, economic and social implications is based around four crucial questions, namely what welfare is for, who delivers welfare, who pays for welfare, and who benefits.  Over the course of ten chapters, the authors examine the answers as they relate to social protection, labour market activation, pensions, finance, water, early child education and care, health, housing and corporate welfare.  They also innovatively address the impact of crisis on the welfare state in Northern Ireland. The result is to isolate key drivers of structural welfare reform, and assess how globalisation, financialisation, neo-liberalisation, privatisation, marketisation and new public management have deepened and diversified their impact on the post-crisis Irish welfare state. This in-depth analysis will appeal to sociologists, economists, political scientists and welfare state practitioners interested in the Irish welfare state and more generally in the analysis of welfare state change. 










Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Sociology, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland

    Mary P. Murphy

  • School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

    Fiona Dukelow

About the editors

Mary P. Murphy is Lecturer in Irish Politics and Society at Maynooth University, Ireland

Fiona Dukelow is a Lecturer in the Department of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, Ireland


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