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      • LOCAL AND REGIONAL BODIES IN IRELAND 2012-2016
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      • Furthering Citizen Engagement in Local Authority Budgetary Processes through Participatory Budgeting In Ireland – Feasibility Study
      • Local Government: Engaging and Empowering Local Communities
      • Knowledge Management: Lessons for Local Government
      • Municipal Districts: A Review
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      • Understanding and Managing Organisational Culture
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      • A Review of Civil Service Grading and Pay Scales
      • Innovation in the Irish Public Sector Experience
      • Ageing in the Irish Civil Service: A Human Resource Management Response
      • Measuring Public Sector Productivity: Lessons from International
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      • Performance Verification and Public Service Pay
      • Regulatory Impact Analysis: Lessons From The Pilot Exercise
      • A Review of Knowledge Management in the Irish Civil Service
      • Civil Service Performance Indicators
      • E-Government and Organisation Development
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      • The Effective Use of Competencies in the Irish Civil Service
      • A Review of Annual Progress Reports
      • A New Change Agenda for the Irish Public Service
      • From Personnel Management to HRM: Key Issues and Challenges
      • Performance Measurement in Local Government
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      • Regulatory Reform: Lessons from International Experience
      • Improving Public Services in Ireland: A Case-Study Approach
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      • The Fifth Irish Presidency of the European Union
      • Evaluating Public Expenditure Programmes
      • The Corporate Governance of Commercial State-owned Enterprises in Ireland
      • Comparing Public Administrations
      • Changing Local Government
      • Flexible Working in the Public Service
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      • A QCS Mark in the Public Service
      • The Role of the Strategy Statements
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    • Other Research Reports
      • Autonomy v. Accountability - Managing government funding of voluntary and community organisations
      • Towards a New Public Service
      • Administrative Budgets in the Irish Civil Service
      • Making Evaluation Relevant: A Study of Policy and Programme Evaluation Practice in the Irish Public Sector
      • Managing Devolved Budgets - The Civil Service Experience
      • Making Change Work: A Study of Planned Organisational Change in the Irish Civil Service
      • Making the Most of Management Information
      • Managing Public Sector Performance: A Comparative Study of Performance Monitoring Systems in the Public and Private Sectors
      • Decentralisation: The Civil Service Experience
      • Making Change Work: A Study of Planned Organisational Change in the Irish Civil Service
      • Accountability Among Senior Civil Servants
      • Information on Public Sector Employment and Manpower
      • Absenteeism in the Public Service: Information Systems and Control Strategies
      • Worksharing and the Public Sector
      • Poverty and Social Policy
      • Philanthropy Working with Government: A Case Study of The Atlantic Philanthropies’ Partnership with the Irish Government
      • Learning lessons from The Atlantic Philanthropies and the Irish Government working together Report of a roundtable dialogue held on 21st April 2017
      • Better Together? Philanthropy and Government Lessons from The Atlantic Philanthropies and Irish Government Partnership-based Co-Investments
      • The establishment of Cosáint, The National Adult Safeguarding Authority
      • The Goal Programme for Public Service Reform and Innovation: Full Report
      • The Goal Programme for Public Service Reform and Innovation: Evaluation Executive Summary
    • Working Papers
      • Public Sector Reform in Ireland: Views and Experiences from Civil Service Senior Executives IPA COCOPS WORKING PAPER NO. 1
      • Public Sector Reform in Ireland: Views and Experiences from State Agency Senior Executives IPA COCOPS WORKING PAPER NO. 2
      • Participative Leadership and Strategic Change
      • Audit Committees in Government Departments by Dermot O'Riordan
      • Working Paper 1
      • Working Paper 2
      • Working Paper 3
    • No 9: Moving On: Staff Turnover
    • Municipal Districts: A Review
    • The Goal Programme for Public Service Reform and Innovation: Evaluation Executive Summary
    • The Goal Programme for Public Service Reform and Innovation: Full Report
    • No 8: Government Trends 2020
    • No 7: The Innovation System of the Public Service in Canada
    • Public Sector Trends 2018
    • Furthering Citizen Engagement in Local Authority Budgetary Processes through Participatory Budgeting In Ireland – Feasibility Study
    • Workforce Planning in the Irish Public Service
    • Local Propertt Tax 2020 - Briefing Paper No 1
  • Publications
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      • Administration Vol. 62 No. 3
    • Administration Journal
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      • ADMINISTRATION JOURNAL
    • Ireland - A Directory 2020
      • More About Ireland A Directory
      • Ireland - A Directory Phone App
      • Ireland - A Directory 2017
      • Ireland - A Directory 2018
      • Ireland - A Directory 2018
      • Ireland - A Directory 2019
      • Ireland - A Directory 2020
      • Ireland - A Directory 2020 Desktop App
    • Economics
      • Economic Development 50 Years On 1958-2008
      • Taxation in Ireland - An Economist’s Perspective
      • Cost-Benefit Analysis Readings
      • Credit Where Credit is Due: The Evolution of Business Banking in Ireland
      • Economic and Financial Evaluation: Measurement, Meaning and Management
      • Source of Economic Information: Ireland
      • Taxation: Ireland and the New Europe
      • Public Expenditure and the Private Sector
      • Managing Public Money
      • Taxation Fair and Simple
      • Irish Economic Statistics
    • Education
      • Irish Higher Education: a Comparative Perspective
      • Education for Citizenship and Diversity in Irish Contexts
      • Beyond Educational Disadvantage
      • National Teachers' Salaries and Pensions 1831-2000 - A Historical Chronology and Review of the Role of the INTO
      • Primary Voices - Equality, Diversity and Childhood in Irish Primary Schools
      • Investing in People Higher Education in Ireland from 1960-2000
      • A New Partnership in Education: from Consultation to Legislation in the Nineties
      • A Singular Pluralism: The European Schools 1984-1994
      • The Challenge of Change: Curriculum Development in Irish Post-Primary Schools 1970-84
      • Cultural Politics and Irish Education since the 1950s: Policy Paradigms and Power
      • Towards the Era of Lifelong Learning: A History of Irish Education 1800-2016
      • Human Resource Management in Ireland (5th Edition)
      • No Artificial Limits: Ireland’s Regional Technical Colleges
      • Modern Management: Theory and Practice for Students in Ireland
    • Government and Politics
      • Reforming Political Institutions: Ireland in Comparative Perspective
      • Governing Ireland: From Cabinet Government to Delegated Governance
      • Lord of the Files - Working for the Government - An Anthology
      • By Dáil Account: Auditing of Government, Past, Present and Future
      • The Houses of the Oireachtas: Parliament in Ireland hbk
      • An Inconvenient Wait Ireland's Quest for Membership of the EEC 1957-73
      • Serving the State, The Public Sector in Ireland
      • Government in Modern Ireland
      • Politics in a Changing Ireland 1960-2007: A Tribute to Seamus Pattison
      • Ireland 2022 - Towards One Hundred Years of Self Government
      • Ireland 2022 - Towards One Hundred Years of Self Government
      • Leadership, Structures and Accountability in the Public Service Priorities for the Next Phase of Reform
      • Democracy and Public Happiness
      • Retrospect 2006-1916
      • Protection or Free Trade - The Final Battle
      • Accountability in Irish Parliamentary Politics
      • Conflict and Consensus - A study of values and attitudes in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
      • The First Department - A History of the Department of Agriculture
      • A Source Book of Irish Government
      • No Man's Man: A Biographical Memoir of Joseph Brennan
      • Governance and Accountability
      • Cross-Departmental Challenges - A Whole-Of-Government Approach for the Twenty-First Century
      • Environmentalism in Ireland: Movement and Activists
      • Environmental Debates and the Public in Ireland
      • The Corporate Governance of Agencies in Ireland: Non-commercial National Agencies
      • MANAGING WORKPLACE CONFLICT: Alternative Dispute Resolution in Ireland
      • Envoy Extraordinary: Professor Smiddy of Cork
      • Irish Parliamentarians: Deputies and Senators 1918 – 2018
      • Social Housing Policy in Ireland: New Directions
    • Health
      • All Vision but No Change? Determinants of Implementation: The Case of Ireland and Mental Health Policy
      • Current Issues in Irish Health Management (Reprinted 2008)
      • Sociology for Health Professionals in Ireland
      • Alocohol, Drugs and Health Promotion in Modern Ireland
      • Reflections on Health: Commemorating Fifty Years of the Department of Health 1947-1997
      • Pegged Down: Experiences of people in Ireland with significant physical disabilities
    • Law
      • Social Inclusion and the Legal System: Public Interest Law in Ireland (2nd ed)
      • An Introduction to Irish Planning Law (Second edition)
      • Deference and the Presumption of Constitutionality
      • Criminal Justice in Ireland (reprinted 2008)
      • Crime, Punishment and the Search for Order in Ireland
      • Sanctuary in Ireland - Perspectives on Asylum Law and Policy
      • Journal of Valuation Tribunal Judgments: Volume II: July 1994 - December 1998
      • Journal of Valuation Tribunal Judgments: Volume I: September 1988-June 1994
      • The Office of the Attorney General
      • Crime and Punishment in Ireland 1922 to 2003 - A Statistical Sourcebook
      • Judical Power in Ireland
    • Local Government
      • Philip Monahan: A Man Apart
      • County & Town One Hundred Years of Local Government in Ireland
      • From Ballot Box to Council Chamber: A Guide to Ireland's County and Town Councillors
      • City and County Management 1929-1990: A Retrospective
      • City and County Management 1929-1990: A Retrospective
      • Local Government Managers at Work
      • Towards a New Democracy? Implications of Local Government Reform
      • More Local Development: A Programme for Development
      • From Ballot Box to Council Chamber - A Guide to Ireland’s County, City and Town Councillors 2004-2009
      • LOCAL GOVERNMENT AS LOCAL SERVICE COORDINATOR Case Study of Ireland’s Age Friendly Cities and Counties Programme
      • Local Government in the Republic of Ireland
      • Social Housing Policy in Ireland: New Directions
    • Public Administration Series
      • Irish Regional Policy: In Search of Coherence
      • Competing in an Uncertain World
      • Dynamics of Regulation in Ireland: Advocacy, Power and Institutional Interests
      • Advisers or Advocates? The Impact of State Agencies on Social Policy
      • An Investigation of the Measurement of Poverty in Ireland
    • Public/International Affairs
      • Irish Agriculture Nationalised
      • Two Paths, One Purpose - Voluntary Action in Ireland, North and South
      • Governance and Policy in Ireland - Essays in honour of Miriam Hederman O`Brien
      • Rural Planning and Development in Northern Ireland
      • Ireland Unbound - A Turn of the Century Chronicle
      • Building Trade Capacity - Options for Ireland Aid
      • Cottage to Creche: Family change in Ireland
      • Media and the Marketplace - Ethical Perspectives
      • Questioning Ireland: Debates in Political Philosophy and Public Policy
      • (Re)searching Women: Feminist Research Methodologies in the Social Servces in Ireland
      • The Open Mind Guest Lectures 1989-1998
      • Servants to the Public: a History of the Local Government and Public Services Union 1901-1990
      • For the Record: Data archives, Electronic Records, Access to Information and the Needs of the Research Community
      • In Public Service: A History of the Public Service Executive Union 1890-1990
      • Wordgloss: words and concepts you need to know, where they come from, what they mean
      • Unequal Achievement: the Irish Experience 1957-1982
      • The Road to Europe: Irish Attitudes 1948-1961
      • A Singular Stance: Irish Neutrality in the 1980s
      • The Tortuous Path: the Course of Ireland's Entry into the EEC 1948-1973
      • De Gaulle and Ireland
      • Jim Dooge, Ruth Barrington
      • Ireland in International Affairs Interests, Institutions and Identities
      • Obligations and Responsibilities: Ireland and the United Nations, 1955-2005
      • International Affairs at Home: The Story of the Irish Institute of International Affairs
      • Foundations of an Ever Closer Union: An Irish Perspective on fifty Years Since the Treaty of Rome
      • Ireland at the United Nations: Memories of the Early Years
      • A Small State at the Top Table: Memories of Ireland on the UN Security Council 1981-82
    • Research Reports
      • A Review of the Civil Service Grading and Pay System
      • Understanding and Managing Organisational Culture
      • Public Service Values
      • Innovation in the Irish Public Sector
      • Measuring Public Sector Productivity: Lessons from International Experience
      • Ageing in the Irish Civil Service: A Human Resource Management Response
      • Performance Verification and Public Service Pay
      • Public Service Decentralisation Governance Opportunities and Challenges
      • Cross Departmental Expenditure Reviews: Lessons from the Pilot Exercises
      • Civil Service Performance Indicators
      • A Review of Knowledge Management in the Irish Civil Service
      • Regulatory Impact Analysis: Lessons from the Pilot Exercise
      • Developing a Strategic Approach to HR in the Irish Civil Service
      • The Role of the Centre in Promoting Civil Service Modernisation
      • E-Government and Organisation Development
      • Developing An Effective Internal Customer Service Ethos
      • E-Government and the Decentralisation of Service Delivery
      • The Effective Use of Competencies in the Irish Civil Service
      • Career Progression in the Irish Civil Service
      • Promoting Longer-Term Policy Thinking
      • Effective Consultation with the External Customer
      • Evaluation in the Irish Health Sector
      • A Review of Annual Progress Reports
      • A New Change Agenda for the Irish Public Service
      • From Personnel Management to HRM: Key Issues and Challenges
      • Multi-Stream Structures in the Public Service
      • Key Human Resource Management Issues in the Irish Public Service
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