http://hdl.handle.net/2262/62024 2017-11-03T02:50:51Z 2017-11-03T02:50:51Z Varley, Tony Curtin, Chris http://hdl.handle.net/2262/61749 2016-09-09T18:18:52Z 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The politics of empowerment: power, populism and partnership in rural Ireland Varley, Tony; Curtin, Chris Since the early 1990s local area partnerships, sponsored either by the state or by the EC/EU together with the state, have proliferated in Ireland as elsewhere (Geddes, 2000). What inspired these area partnerships initially was an official analysis that the conditions resulting in urban and rural decline had reached crisis dimensions that cried out for a fresh policy response. The basic idea was to tackle intractable economic and social problems by creating institutional arrangements capable of producing a consensus among key actors and of harnessing the energies of the public, private and voluntary sectors in new dynamic area partnerships. This paper was delivered at a conference ?Social Partnership: A New Kind of Governance?? funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis and the Department of Sociology, NUI Maynooth, 14-15 September 2004.

2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Corcoran, Mary P. http://hdl.handle.net/2262/61747 2016-09-09T17:50:58Z 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The challenge of urban regeneration in deprived European neighbourhoods: a partnership approach Corcoran, Mary P. This paper sets out to critically examine the adoption of a partnership approach to urban regeneration at neighbourhood level across eight European cities. While all of the cities were committed to the idea of the socially integrated city, significant differences emerged in the conceptualisation and practice of partnership at neighbourhood level. This paper draws on case studies assembled in the course of an EU funded thematic network (ENTRUST) to illustrate, in particular, the challenges associated with (1) mobilising the private sector and (2) engaging the local population in the process. The paper concludes that the experience of partnership at neighbourhood level is largely determined by contextual factors such as local and national institutional structures, political culture and the relative power of potentially competing actors within the urban regeneration system. This paper was delivered at a conference ?Social Partnership: A New Kind of Governance?? funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis and the Department of Sociology, NUI Maynooth, 14-15 September 2004.

2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Hardiman, Niamh http://hdl.handle.net/2262/61016 2016-09-09T18:53:13Z 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Politics and social partnership: flexible network governance Hardiman, Niamh This paper reassesses the relationship between social partnership and the broader Irish policy process. What has developed may be conceptualised as ?flexible network governance?. While pay regulation may be less strongly institutionalised than in other countries with national-level pay deals, social partnership has created networks for establishing and maintaining priorities that matter to those involved in the process. These have not replaced conventional methods of developing policy. Nor do they displace government prerogative: politics can trump partnership. Social partnership is open to some criticism on grounds of both effectiveness and legitimacy. But is has proven robust to date on the core issues it deals with. This paper was delivered at a conference ?Social Partnership: A New Kind of Governance?? funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis and the Department of Sociology, NUI Maynooth, 14-15 September 2004.

2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Adshead, Maura http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60768 2016-09-09T17:51:15Z 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

New modes of governance and the Irish case: finding evidence for explanations of social partnership Adshead, Maura This paper applies insights from governance and multi-level governance(MLG) studies to the analysis of Social Partnership in order to: (1) outline a methodological approach for the study of Social Partnership over time; and (2) to provide neutral framework for analysis that will facilitate the collection of empirical evidence that may contribute (either positively or negatively) to the theorising of Social Partnership as a new form of governance. The proposed methodology focuses on the extent of policy integration (and/or disaggregation) between policy interests in the Social Partnership model in order to ascertain how inclusive Irish Social Partnership is. This is considered to be important, given the variety of claims made for Social Partnership as an instrument of direct and participatory democracy. This paper was delivered at a conference ?Social Partnership: A New Kind of Governance?? funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis and the Department of Sociology, NUI Maynooth, 14-15 September 2004.

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