Staff

George Taylor

Lecturer

Director of the Centre for Public Policy, SSRC
Director of the Structured PhD

BA and PhD in Political Science (Department of Government, University of Essex)

Office: 311 Aras Moyola
Telephone: 353 (0)91 493076 
Email: george.taylornuigalway.ie

Member of the Power, Conflict and Ideologies Research Cluster

Teaching

Marxist Theory
Environmentalism
Comparative Public Policy

Research Interests

Risk and politics
Environmental politics
State theory

Selected Publications

Books

G Taylor and Martin Power 2010 Risk Science and Blood: The Politics of the Haemophilia Crisis in Ireland. (E-book) Centre for Public Policy, SSRC NUI Galway.

G Taylor 2005 Negotiated Governance and Public Policy in Ireland. Manchester University Press.

G Taylor (ed) 2002 Issues in Irish Public Policy. Irish Academic Press. Dublin

G Taylor 2001 Conserving the Emerald Tiger: The Politics of Environmental Regulation in Ireland. Arlen Academic Press.

Peer-Reviewed International Journal articles

G Taylor (2012) Staring into the Political Abyss: The Irish Greens after the Parliamentary Elections, 2011. Environmental Politics.

G. Taylor 2011 ’Risk and Financial Armageddon in Ireland: The Politics of the Galway Tent’, Political Quarterly, Vol 8, Issue 4, pp 596-608

G Taylor & Martin P Power (2010) "Risk, Science and Blood: The Politics of the Haemophilia Crisis in Ireland" Risk, Health and Society. (Impact factor: 1.2)

G Taylor 2009 ’The Reconfiguration of Risk in the British State'. Public Policy and Administration’ vol 24 no.4  (Impact factor: 0.9)

G Taylor 2006 If no risk is proven, is there a risk? Some Reflections on Science, Risk and Environmental Regulation after Watson vs the EPA/Monsanto. Irish studies in International Affairs.

G Taylor & M Millar 2004 'The Politics of Food Regulation and Reform in Ireland'. Public Administration. Vol 13.no.4, pp125-146

G Taylor & B Flynn 2003 ’Its Green, but is it of a Light Enough Hue? Past, Present and Future performance of the Irish Greens. Environmental Politics. Vol 12, no.3, pp225-233

G Taylor 2003 'From the Slurry to the Curry: The Politics of Food regulation and Reform in Ireland'. Irish studies in International Affairs. Royal Irish Academy

G Taylor 2002 'Hailing with an Invisible Hand: A 'Cosy' Political Dispute Amid the rise of neo-Liberalism in Modern Ireland' . Government and Opposition. Vol 37, No.4, pp501-23

G Taylor & M Millar 2002 'The Appliance of Science: The Politics of European Food Regulation and Reform'. Public Policy and Administration. Vol 13, no.4, pp125-146.

G Taylor 2001 'Looking Back (But Not in Anger): Policy Transfer and the role of Institutional Memory in the Construction of the Irish EPA. Irish Studies in International Affairs. Vol 13, pp 187-201. Royal Irish Academy.

G Taylor & A Horan 2001 'From Cats, Dogs, Parks and Playgrounds to IPC Licensing: Policy Learning and the evolution of Environmental policy in Ireland. British Journal of Politics and International Relations. Vol 3, No. 4, pp363-93

G Taylor 1998 'Conserving the Emerald Tiger: The Politics of Environmental Regulation in Ireland'. Environmental Politics. Vol 7, No.4, pp53-74

G Taylor 1996 'Macro-Political Bargaining: A Reply to M J Gobeyn'. Governance. Vol 33, no 3, pp178-201

G Taylor 1996 Labour Market Rigidities, Institutional Impediments and Managerial Constraints : Some reflections on macro-political bargaining in Ireland. Economic and Social Review, Vol 27, no.3, pp253-27

National Journal Articles

G Taylor 2009 'Risk Science and Food: The Politics of Little Red Sweets’ Administration.

G Taylor 2003 The Politics of Conviviality: Voluntary Workfare and the Right to Useful Unemployment . Celebrating Fifty Years. Administration. Vol 51, pp309-326

G Taylor 1998 'Me thinks Thou Do'st Protest Too Much: Oral Hearings, Public Registers and Environmental Democracy in Ireland’. Irish Planning and Environmental Law Journal. Vol 5. No.4, pp143-155

G Taylor 1996 A Question of Interpretation: The Politics of an Environmental Dispute at Mullaghmore. Irish Journal of Sociology. Vol 6, pp 48-56

G Taylor 1996 The Politics of Conviviality: Voluntary Workfare and the Right to Useful unemployment. Administration. Vol 43, no.3, pp 36-56

G Taylor 1993 In Search of the Elusive Entrepreneur, Irish Political Studies

International Book Chapters

G Taylor & B Flynn 2008 'The Irish Greens' in P Lucardie (ed). Green Political Parties.

G Taylor 2005 Bargaining Celtic style' in F Van Waarden and G Lemhbruch Renegotiating the Welfare State: Flexible Adjustment through Corporatist Concertation. Routledge. pp191-225.

G Taylor 1996 'Marxist Theory', in D Marsh and G Stoker (eds) Theory and Methods in Political Science. MacMillan: London. pp49-67

National Book Chapters

G Taylor 2002 ’Public Policy and the Changing Architecture of the Irish State' in Taylor, G (ed) Issues in Irish Public Policy. Irish Academic press.

G Taylor 2002 Macro-political Bargaining in Ireland' in Taylor, G (ed) Issues in Irish Public Policy. Irish Academic Press.

G Taylor & Cathi Murphy 2002 'Environmental Policy' in Taylor (ed) Issues in Irish Public Policy. Irish Academic Press.

Working Papers: Centre for Public Policy, SSRC

2008 Risk, Science and Politics: Food additives and hyperactivity in Children.

2007 Risk Science and Blood: The Politics of an Iatrogenic Disaster (with M Power)

2007a Risk science and Regulation: A Comment on D Vogel.

2007b Risk Science and Blood: A Comment on A Farrell’s account of reform in European blood regulation.

2005 Risk, Science and Environmental Regulation in Ireland

2003 Risk and Politics: A Comment on MJ Smith

2003 From Titmuss to Hayek: The Reconfiguration of risk in Modern politics

2001 The ’Buffalo can still be heard running’: The Politics of Irish Food safety

1998 Enviromental politics in Ireland

1995 Marxist State Theory and its Critics

Supervision of Research

Martin Ruffley MA (2009)

Dr Martin Power (2008)

Cathi Murphy MA (1999)

Avril Horan (2001)

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