Specialised Centres: The Centre for Public Policy Studies

Director: Dr. George Taylor (School of Political Science and Sociology)

email: George.Taylornuigalway.ie 

The Centre for Public Policy Studies exists to publish on-going research into public policy in Ireland.

Its publications include the following:

• The Politics of Little Red Sweets: Risk Science and Food Regulation. Administration (George Taylor, 2009)
• The Reconfiguration of Risk in the British State. Public Policy and Administration (George Taylor, 2009)
• The Politics of the Irish Blood Crisis. e-book. Centre for Public Policy, SSRC (George Taylor and Martin Power, 2009)
• Dr George Taylor has also published From Titmuss to Hayek: The Reconfiguration of Risk in British Politics (2005).
• Negotiated Governance and Public Policy in Ireland (George Taylor, 2005) published by Manchester University Press. An article was also published in Public Administration, a leading international political science/public administration journal: George Taylor and M Millar, 'Politics of food regulation and reform in Ireland'.
• Issues in Irish Public Policy, (ed. George Taylor, 2002).
• 'The Politics of an Environmental Dispute at Mullaghmore' (Brian McGrath, 1996).
• 'Critical Ethnography and Public Policy on Ageing in Ireland' (Ricca Edmondson, 1995)
• 'Paid Employment in the Voluntary Sector: a Review of the Literature' (Tony Varley and Orla O'Donovan, 1995)
• 'Modelling Constitutional Change in the U.K.' (Mark Evans, 1995)
• 'Rigidity and Flexibility in Macro-Political Bargaining: Some Comments on the Recent Irish Experience' (George Taylor, 1994)
• 'From Marx to Block: An Introduction to Contemporary Marxist State Theory and its Critics' (George Taylor, 1994)

Working papers, available on email request, are:

Dr George Taylor

Dr George Taylor and Dr Martin Power

Dr Martin Power

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