Governing activation in Ireland: comparing Ireland's mixed-economy of public employment services

Project Information

GAII

Grant agreement ID: 841477

DOI 10.3030/841477

Project closed

EC signature date 17 April 2019

Start date 6 January 2020

End date 5 January 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost € 196 590,72

EU contribution € 196 590,72

Coordinated by

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND MAYNOOTH
Ireland

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (9)

Meeting the numbers: Performance politics and welfare-to-work at the street-level

Author(s): McGann, Michael
Published in: Irish Journal of Sociology, Issue Online First, 2021, Page(s) 1-21, ISSN 2050-5280
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/07916035211068430

Remodeling Street-Level Workers With Quasi-Markets: Comparing Ireland’s Mixed Economy of Welfare-to-Work:

Author(s): Michael McGann
Published in: Administration and Society, Issue Online First View, 2021, ISSN 1552-3039
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/00953997211050924

The enabling role of employment guidance in contemporary public employment services: A work-first to life-first typology

Author(s): Nuala Whelan; Mary P. Murphy; Michael McGann
Published in: British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, Issue 49(2), 2021, Page(s) 200-212, ISSN 0306-9885
Publisher: Brunner - Routledge (US)
DOI: 10.1080/03069885.2021.1879374

A period of contention? The politics of post-crisis activation reform and the creeping marketisation of public employment services

Author(s): Murphy, Mary P.; McGann, Michael
Published in: Irish Political Studies, Issue 2, 2022, ISSN 0790-7184
Publisher: Political Studies Association of Ireland Press
DOI: 10.1080/07907184.2022.2044313

The political economy of welfare in a time of coronavirus: Post-productivism as a state of exception

Author(s): Michael McGann
Published in: Irish Journal of Sociology, Issue 28(2), 2020, Page(s) 225-230, ISSN 2050-5280
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/0791603520939817

Enabling Participation Income for an Eco-Social State

Author(s): Laruffa, Francesco; McGann, Michael; Murphy, Mary P.
Published in: Social Policy and Society, Issue First View, 2021, Page(s) 1-12, ISSN 1474-7464
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/S1474746421000750

‘Double activation’: Workfare meets marketisation

Author(s): Michael McGann
Published in: Administration, Issue 69(2), 2021, Page(s) 19-42, ISSN 2449-9471
Publisher: Institute of Public Administration of Ireland
DOI: 10.2478/admin-2021-0012

Workfare redux? Pandemic unemployment, labour activation and the lessons of post-crisis welfare reform in Ireland

Author(s): Michael McGann; Mary Murphy; Nuala Whelan
Published in: International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Issue Vol. 40 No. 9/10, 2020, Page(s) 963-978, ISSN 0144-333X
Publisher: Barmarick Publications
DOI: 10.1108/ijssp-07-2020-0343

Income Support in an Eco-Social State: The Case for Participation Income

Author(s): McGann, Michael; Murphy, Mary P.
Published in: Social Policy and Society, Issue First View, 2021, Page(s) 1-15, ISSN 1474-7464
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/S1474746421000397

Other (3)

The 'high road' back to work: developing a public employment eco-system for a post-Covid recovery

Author(s): Murphy, Mary P.; Whelan, Nuala; McGann, Michael; Finn, Philip
Published in: 2020
Publisher: Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4571014

Understanding frontline employment services in Ireland: 2020 survey of contracted employment services

Author(s): McGann, Michael
Published in: Issue 1, 2021
Publisher: Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4758508

Lived experiences of employment services for people who are long-term unemployed

Author(s): Michael McGann
Published in: Issue 1, 2021
Publisher: Maynooth Univesity Social Sciences Institute
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5772062

Non-peer reviewed articles (3)

Introduction: Towards a sustianable welfare state

Author(s): Murphy, Mary P.; McGann, Michael
Published in: Social Policy & Society, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 1475-3073
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/S1474746421000853

Introduction: The dual tracks of welfare and activation reform – Governance and conditionality

Author(s): McGann, Michael and Murphy, Mary P.
Published in: Administration, Issue 69(2), 2021, Page(s) 1-16, ISSN 2449-9471
Publisher: Institute of Public Administration of Ireland
DOI: 10.2478/admin-2021-0011

Some Useful Resources

Author(s): McGann, Michael Murphy, Mary P.
Published in: Social Policy & Society, 2022, ISSN 1475-3073
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s1474746421000865