• Institutional change in the Irish university 2008-2014: an examination through the lens of institutional logics 

  Gannon, Anne Margaret (University College Cork, 2019)

  Institutional change is an important research area in the context of the evolution of the Irish university sector. 2008-2014 was an eventful period in bringing about changes within the sector. Drivers of transformation led ...
• Between the devil and the DUP: the Democratic Unionist Party and the politics of Brexit 

  Murphy, Mary C.; Evershed, Jonathan (Springer Nature, 2019-10-11)

  The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) gained an unexpected foothold at the heart of the British political system following the 2017 UK general election. Political arithmetic compelled the then Prime Minister Theresa May to ...
• From cartel party to traditional membership organization: the organizational evolution of Fianna Fáil 

  Bolleyer, Nicole; Weeks, Liam (Taylor & Francis Group, 2017-01-11)

  This paper examines patterns of intra-organisational evolution and reform of Fianna Fáil as a party organisation before and after the 2011 Dáil election, widely considered an ‘earthquake election’ that fundamentally ...
• The effects of mixed membership in a deliberative forum: the Irish Constitutional Convention of 2012-2014 

  Farrell, David M.; Suiter, Jane; Harris, Clodagh; Cunningham, Kevin (SAGE Publications, 2019-03-25)

  The Constitutional Convention was established by the Irish government in 2012. It was tasked with making recommendations on a number of constitutional reform proposals. As a mini-public, its membership was a mix of 66 ...
• The security imaginaries of an unarmed people: popular and elite security discourses in Iceland 

  Omarsdottir, Silja Bara (University College Cork, 2018)

  This dissertation analyzes public and elite security discourses in Iceland, drawing on focus group interviews and political debates to develop an understanding of what serves as the foundation of security and insecurity ...

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