BERNADETTE CONNAUGHTON PUBLICATIONS Books (Monographs & coauthored) Rees, N., Quinn, B. and Connaughton, B. (2010) Europeanisation and New Patterns of Governance in Ireland, Manchester: Manchester University Press. Edited Books: Connaughton, B., Sootla, G. and Peters, B.G. (eds.) (2008), Politico-Administrative Relations at the Centre: Actors, Structures and Processes supporting the Core Executive, Bratislava: NISPAcee. (17 chapters, 328 pages). Peters, B.G., Sootla, G. and Connaughton, B. (eds.) (2006), Politico-Administrative Dilemma: Traditional Problems and New Solutions, Bratislava: NISPAcee. (14 chapters, 281 pages) Refereed Journal Articles: (2010) Glorified Gofers, Policy Experts or Good Generalists : A Classification of the Roles of the Irish Ministerial Adviser, Irish Political Studies, 25:3, 347-370. (2010) Minding the Minister: Conceptualising the Role of the Special Adviser in Ireland, Administration, 58:1, 55-76. (2010) Symptom or Remedy? Mediating Characteristics of the Irish Central Bureaucracy and their Influence on the Strategic Capacity of a Small State, Halduskutuur Administrative Culture, 11:1, 110-126. (2007) The Europeanization of Irish Environmental Policy: the EU as the Engine of Domestic Policy Change Administration 54:4, 77-93 (Lead author with Nicholas Rees and Brid Quinn) (2006) Reform of Politico-Administrative Relations in the Irish System: Clarifying or Complicating the Doctrine of Ministerial Responsibility? Irish Political Studies 21:3, 257-276. (2005) Public Administration as a Field of Study: Divergence or Convergence in the Light of Europeanization? TRAMES 9:4, 1-13. (with Tiina Randma) (2004) Ireland s Pragmatic Adaptation to Regionalization: The Mid-West Region Regional and Federal Studies 14:3, 379-404. (with Nicholas Rees and Brid Quinn) (2003) Public Administration Education and Europeanization: Prospects for the Emancipation of a Discipline? Public Administration 81:4, 833-852. (with Tony Verheijen) Book Chapters (2010) Ireland in Eichbaum, C. and Shaw, R. (eds.) Partisan Appointees and Public Servants: An International Analysis of the Role of the Political Advisor, Aldershot: Edward Elgar, pp.151-179.
(2010) Political institutions and administrative adaptation in Rees, N., Quinn, B. and Connaughton, B. (2009) Europeanisation and New Patterns of Governance in Ireland, Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp.53-79. (2010) The politics of environmental policy in Rees, N., Quinn, B. and Connaughton, B. Europeanisation and New Patterns of Governance in Ireland, Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp.122-144. (2008) Ireland: Modernisation as Opposed to Radical Reform in Killian, Jerri and Eklund, Niklas (eds.) Handbook of Administrative Reform: An International Perspective, Boca Raton USA: Taylor and Francis CRC Press, 2008, pp.95-114. (2008) Staffing the Summit Evidence from East and West on the Role of Personal Advisors and Senior Civil Servants in Connaughton, B., Sootla, G. and Peters, B.G. (eds.) (2008), Politico-Administrative Relations at the Centre: Actors, Structures and Processes supporting the Core Executive, Bratislava: NISPAcee, pp.163-179. (2008) Changing Relationships at the Summit? Analysing the Role and Institutionalisation of Special Advisors in Ireland in Connaughton, B., Sootla, G. and Peters, B.G. (eds.) (2008), Politico-Administrative Relations at the Centre: Actors, Structures and Processes supporting the Core Executive, Bratislava: NISPAcee, pp.244-267. (2008) Expansion and Adaptation: Irish Public Administration Programmes and the International Context in Jenei, G. and Karoly, M. Public Administration and Public Policy Degree Programmes in Europe: The Road from Bologna, Bratislava: European Group of Public Administration (EGPA) and NISPAcee, pp.171-192. (2008) Rhetoric or Reality? Responding to the challenge of sustainable development and new governance patterns in Baker, S. and Eckerberg, S. (eds) In Pursuit of Sustainable Development, London: Routledge, pp. 145-168. (Lead author with B. Quinn and N. Rees) (2006) The Impact of Reform on Politico-Administrative Relations in Ireland: Enlightening or Confusing Roles of Political and Managerial Accountability? in Peters, B.G., Sootla, G. and Connaughton, B. (eds.) Politico-Administrative Dilemma: Traditional Problems and New Solutions, Bratislava: NISPAcee, pp. 50-68. (2006) Analysing Politico-Administrative Relations: Extending the Focus in Peters, B.G., Sootla, G. and Connaughton, B. (eds.) Politico-Administrative Dilemma: Traditional Problems and New Solutions, Bratislava: NISPAcee, 2006, pp.256-274 (with G. Sootla and B.G. Peters) (2006) The Challenge of Multi-Level Governance and Europeanization in Ireland in Paraskevopoulos, C., Panagiotis, G. and Rees, N. (eds.) Adapting to EU Multi- Level Governance Regional and Environmental Policies in Cohesion and CEE Countries, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006, 53-78. (with N. Rees and B. Quinn) (2005) EU Environmental Policy and Ireland in Holmes, M. (ed) Ireland and the European Union: Nice, enlargement and the future of Europe, Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 36-54.
(2005) The Impact of Coalition Government on Politico-Administrative Relations in Ireland 1981-2002 in Peters, B.G., Verheijen, T. and Vass, L. (eds.) Politico- Administrative Relations under Coalition Governments, Bratislava: NISPAcee, 2005, pp.247-272. Cited by 1 [google scholar] (2000) Developing Public Administration Education in Central and Eastern Europe: the significance of the European dimension in academic programmes? In T. Verheijen and J. Nemec (eds.), Building Higher Education Programmes in Public Administration in CEE Countries, Bratislava : NISPAcee, 2000, pp. 328-345 (lead author with T. Verheijen) Cited by 5 [google scholar] (2000) The Governance of the European Union in Tanev, T. (ed.), Introduction to Comparative Public Administration, Sofia : GVT Press, 2000, pp. 507-532 (with E. Moxon-Browne). Research Reports: REPORTS ADAPT Project Reports for workshops cited above: National Reports on Ireland (with Nicholas Rees and Brid Quinn) 2002, 33 pages Environmental Policy in Ireland (case study of waste management) Social Network Analysis, 2003, 54 pages. ADAPT Final Report EU Enlargement and Multi-Level Governance in European Regional and Environmental Policies: Patterns of Institutional Learning, Adaptation and Europeanisation among Cohesion Countries (Greece, Ireland and Portugal) and Lessons for New Members (Hungary and Poland) (by all project partners and submitted by co-ordinator, Institute of Urban Environment and Human Resources (UEHR), Panteion University, Athens, 321 pages. Socrates Thematic Network Steering Committee of the Thematic Network Project in Public Administration (member), Strategy for the Europeanisation of Higher Education Programmes in Public Administration, project output submitted to Socrates, Leonardo and Youth TAO, Brussels, March 1999. 39 pages Verheijen, T. and Connaughton, B. (eds.) (1999) Higher Education Programmes in Public Administration: Ready for the Challenge of Europeanization? [12 National Reports and Comparative Chapter presented to first TNPA conference in Paris] Limerick: Centre for European Studies [project output of Thematic Network in Public Administration] 12 national reports and a comparative paper, 419 pages. Cited by 7 [google scholar] Working Papers: Connaughton, B. (2010) Reticient or Robust Reform? Charting the Development of the Irish Central Bureaucracy, Limerick Working Papers in Politics and Public Administration, 2010/2
Rees, N.,Quinn, B. and Connaughton, B. (2006) Europeanisation, Adaptation and the EU Regional Policy in Ireland: Assessing the Goodness of Fit Limerick Working Papers in Politics and Public Administration, No. 11 Connaughton, B. and Randma, T. (2002) Teaching Ideas and Principles of Public Administration: is it possible to achieve a common European perspective? EPAN Occasional Papers http://bl.ul.ie/epan/ (or google EPAN) Cited by 5 [google scholar] Connaughton, B. (2006) Explaining Environmental Policy Implementation in Ireland: Institutional Vetoes and the Goodness of Fit in Sauer, P. (ed.), (2006) Environmental Economics, Policy and International Relations, proceedings book of 8 th Seminar of Phd Students, Young Scientists and Researchers, University of Economics, Prague and Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic, pp.32-42 [Published conference proceedings] Connaughton, B. (2005) Challenges to Implementing EU Waste Management Policy in Ireland in Environmental Economics, Policy and International Relations, Sauer, P. (ed.), (2005) proceedings book of 7 th Seminar of Phd Students, Young Scientists and Researchers, University of Economics, Prague and Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic, pp.147-158 [Published conference proceedings] Conference Papers: Symptom or Remedy? The role of the central bureaucracy in enhancing the strategic capacity of the Irish state paper presented to Halduskultuur Administrative Culture Conference - Small States and The State, Tallinn, Estonia, 24-25 th April 2009 The Irish Ministerial Adviser in a Comparative Perspective: Observing the Roles of Government Elites in Europe paper presented to the Political Studies Association of Ireland PSAI, Department of Politics and Sociology, NUI Galway, 17-19 th October 2008. The Europeanisation of Irish Environmental Policy: Adaptation and Implementation Challenges paper presented to the 4 th Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, University of Riga, Latvia, 25-27 September 2008. [Panel] The Roles and Functions of Special Advisers: The Advent of a Third Element in the Irish Administration? presented to the Political Studies Association of Ireland PSAI 25, Isaac s Hotel, Dublin, 19-21 st October 2007. The Dynamics of Adapting European Environmental Policy in Ireland: Implementation Challenges and Domestic Change, paper presented to the UACES conference Exchanging Ideas on Europe, Portsmouth, 3-5 th September 2007. [Part of accepted panel proposal] Conceptualising the Roles of Ministerial Advisors in the Administration of the Summit paper presented to the 15 th annual NISPAcee conference Leadership and Management in the Public Sector: Values, Standards and Competencies in Central and Eastern Europe, Kyiv, Ukraine, 17-19 th May 2007.
Shifting the Balance of Roles in the Administration of the Summit? The Role of Special Advisors in the Irish policy making process paper presented to the 57 th Annual Conference of the Political Studies Association, UK, University of Bath, 11-13 th April 2007. The Institutionalisation of Special Advisors in the Irish Policy Making Process, paper presented to the Political Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference 2006, Department of Government, UCC, Cork, 20-22 October 2006. (with Brid Quinn and Nicholas Rees) Europeanisation, New Forms of Governance and the Irish Case: Developing a Framework for Analysis, a paper presented to the Political Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference 2006, Department of Government, UCC, Cork, 20-22 October 2006. Explaining Environmental Policy Implementation in Ireland: Institutional Vetoes and the Goodness of Fit, paper presented to the 8 th annual seminar on Environmental Economics and International Policy, University of Economics, Prague, 12-13 th October 2006. Relegating Civil Servants to the Periphery? The Institutionalisation of Special Advisers as Carriers of Politico-Administrative Roles, a paper presented to the 14 th Annual NISPAcee Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 19 th -21 st May 2006 Cited by 2 [google scholar] Reforming Politico-Administrative Relations in Ireland: Clarifying or Complicating Political and Managerial Accountability? a paper presented to the PSAI Annual Conference, Queen s University Belfast, 21-23 October 2005 The Challenges of Implementing EU Environmental Policy in Ireland: Interpreting the Missing Link in Waste Management Policy a paper presented to the 7 th Seminar of Phd Students, Young Scientists and Researchers, University of Economics, Prague, 6-7 October 2005 The Impact of Reform on Politico-Administrative Relations in Ireland: Enlightening or Confusing Roles of Political and Managerial Accountability? a paper presented to the 13 th Annual NISPAcee Conference, Moscow, Russia, 19 th - 21 st May 2005 Rhetoric or Reality? Responding to the Challenge of Sustainable Development and New Governance Patterns in Ireland, a paper presented to the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Granada, 14 th -19 th April 2005 (with Brid Quinn and Nicholas Rees) Embedded or Ephemeral? Europeanization and Regionalism in Ireland, a paper presented to the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Granada, 14 th -19 th April 2005 Assessing the Goodness of Fit between Domestic and EU Policy making A Comparison of Institutional and Policy Learning in Ireland, Poland and Hungary, a paper presented to the 15 th Annual Irish Environmental Researchers Colloquim, Institute of Technology Sligo, 28-30 th January 2005 The Development of a Waste Management Framework in Ireland: Europeanisation and Domestic Change, PSAI Annual Conference, Limerick, 15-17 October 2004
Improving Compliance through Domestic Mobilisation? The Implementation of Waste Management Policy in Ireland, a paper presented to the 14 th Annual Irish Environmental Researchers Colloquium, University of Limerick, 30 th January-1 st February 2004 (with M. Czernielewska, L. Demetropoulou and I. Pálné Kovács), Why do institutions matter? External pressures and domestic public (regional and environmental) policy transformation in Hungary and Poland, a paper presented to the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Uppsala, 13 th -18 th April 2004 The Race against Waste: The Development of Environmental Governance in Ireland, a paper presented to the 12 th Annual NISPAcee conference, Vilnius, 13 th - 15 th May 2004 (with Christos J. Paraskevopoulos & Brid Quinn) EVOLUTION and/or INTENTION? Measuring the Impact of Europeanization on Domestic Environmental Policy Networks in Cohesion and CEE Countries Joint paper presented at the ECPR-Joint Sessions Edinburgh, 28 March 2 April, 2003 Cited by 3 [google scholar] Politico-Administrative Relations under Coalition Government : the case of Ireland, paper presented to the 10 th Annual NISPAcee Conference, Krakow, 25-27 th April 2002 (with Nicholas Rees and Brid Quinn) Globalism, Multi-level Governance and Irish Institutional Development: the case of EU regional and environmental policies in Ireland, paper presented to the Annual Conference, Regional Studies Association (Ireland), 26 th April, Bunratty, Limerick (with Tiina Randma) Teaching Ideas and Principles of Public Administration from a European Perspective, paper presented to the 5 th Annual Conference of the Socrates Thematic Network in Public Administration, Granada, Spain, 14-15 th June 2002