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  1. The legacy of ‘cash for ash’ in Northern Ireland: instrumental, cultural, and myth perspectives

    Article • Public Money & Management, February 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  2. Facilitators and Barriers to Employment of Neurodivergent Individuals: A Systematic Literature Review of Employee and Employer Experiences

    Article • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, December 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  3. Assessing agency autonomy

    Article • November 2025, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  4. Stuck in the waiting room: citizen experiences of administrative limbo in three European crises

    Article • Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, June 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  5. Mapping dominant AI schools to multiple accountability types

    Article • Transforming Government People Process and Policy, May 2025, Emerald

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  6. Accountability and AI: Redundancy, Overlaps and Blind-Spots

    Article • Public Performance & Management Review, April 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  7. The changing relationship of accountability due to the deployment of Generative AI

    Article • Digital Government Research and Practice, May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh, Marc T.J Elliott, Deepak P

  8. Greening the Irish State: early legislative and administrative dynamics

    Article • Irish Political Studies, April 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  9. Priming the state: continuity and junctures in the foundation of the Irish administration

    Article • Irish Political Studies, April 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  10. Towards Fairer Centroids in K-means Clustering

    Article • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, March 2024, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  11. Algorithmic Elections? AI and the Electoral System

    Article • Political Insight, November 2023, SAGE Publications

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  12. Nature or nurture? Agency life‐cycles as a function of institutional legacy, political environment, and organizational hardwiring

    Article • Public Administration Review, November 2023, Wiley

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  13. It's about time! Temporal dynamics and longitudinal research designs in public administration

    Article • Public Administration Review, October 2023, Wiley

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  14. Parliament

    Article • August 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  15. AI and core electoral processes: Mapping the horizons

    Article • AI Magazine, August 2023, Wiley

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  16. Public policy accumulation in Ireland: the changing profile of ministerial departments 1922–2022

    Article • Irish Political Studies, January 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  17. Medium‐term expenditure frameworks: Credible instrument or mirage?

    Article • Public Budgeting &amp Finance, March 2022, Wiley

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  18. Exploring Rawlsian Fairness for K-Means Clustering

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  19. Accounting for the past: the role of public apologies in Ireland

    Article • Irish Political Studies, December 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  20. The changing policy analysis capacity of the Irish state

    Article • March 2021, JSTOR

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  21. Data Science for Fake News

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  22. The role of the ‘centre’ in public service reform

    Article • Administration, December 2020, De Gruyter

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  23. Administrative Culture

    Article • October 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  24. Tangling with the Troika: ‘domestic ownership’ as political and administrative engagement in Greece, Ireland, and Portugal

    Article • Public Management Review, May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh, Professor Niamh Hardiman, Professor JoaquimFilipe Ferraz Esteves Araujo

  25. Public service integration in hard times: Merging unemployment benefit and labour market activation measures

    Article • Administration, May 2019, De Gruyter

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  26. Exploiting conditionality: EU and international actors and post-NPM reform in Ireland

    Article • Public Policy and Administration, April 2019, SAGE Publications

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  27. A century of Irish parliamentary government

    Article • Administration, December 2018, De Gruyter

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  28. Collaborative cost-cutting: productive efficiency as an interdependency between public organizations

    Article • Public Management Review, February 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  29. The Palgrave Handbook of Public Administration and Management in Europe

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh, Professor Juraj Nemec

  30. The Mayoralty in the Republic of Ireland

    Article • November 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  31. Reforming the Irish public service: A multiple streams perspective

    Article • Administration, May 2017, De Gruyter

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  32. Commissions and Local Government Reform: Expressed Leadership Identities of Commissioners in Inquiries Proposing Municipal Mergers in Northern Ireland and New South Wales

    Article • Politics &amp Policy, April 2017, Wiley

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  33. State agencies and enterprises, 2016

    Article • Administration, February 2017, De Gruyter

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  34. Reforming the Westminster Model of Agency Governance: Britain and Ireland After the Crisis

    Article • Governance, July 2016, Wiley

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  35. Sharing services, saving money? Five risks to cost-saving when organizations share services

    Article • Public Money & Management, June 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  36. Quango reform: the next steps?

    Article • Public Money & Management, March 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  37. State agencies and state enterprises, 2015

    Article • Administration, February 2016, De Gruyter

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  38. State Retrenchment and Administrative Reform in Ireland: Probing Comparative Policy Paradigms

    Article • Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Research and Practice, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  39. Managing for Legitimacy: Agency Governance in Its “Deep” Constitutional Context

    Article • Public Administration Review, January 2016, Wiley

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  40. Local Public Sector Reforms in Times of Crisis

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  41. Bicameralism in the Republic of Ireland: The Seanad Abolition Referendum

    Article • Irish Political Studies, January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  42. AGENCY TERMINATION IN IRELAND: CULLS AND BONFIRES, OR LIFE AFTER DEATH?

    Article • Public Administration, May 2014, Wiley

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  43. Governing Ireland: From Cabinet Government to Delegated Governance

    Article • Irish Political Studies, February 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  44. Debate: Shrinking the quango state— an international view

    Article • Public Money & Management, November 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  45. Mapping Public Sector Organizations: An Agenda for Future Research

    Article • International Journal of Public Administration, October 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  46. Mapping and Understanding Organizational Change: Ireland 1922–2010

    Article • International Journal of Public Administration, October 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  47. Analyzing Longitudinal Continuity and Change in Public Sector Organizations

    Article • International Journal of Public Administration, October 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  48. The Houses of the Oireachtas: Parliament in Ireland

    Article • Irish Political Studies, February 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  49. Politics, Policy Preferences and the Evolution of Irish Bureaucracy: A Framework for Analysis

    Article • Irish Political Studies, February 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  50. The Houses of the Oireachtas: Parliament in Ireland

    Article • Journal of Legislative Studies, December 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  51. Managing state-owned enterprises in an age of crisis: an analysis of Irish experience

    Article • Policy Studies, May 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  52. Joined-Up Government in Ireland: From Un-Strategic Choices to Patriotic Imperatives

    Article • International Journal of Public Administration, March 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  53. Book Reviews

    Article • Journal of Legislative Studies, December 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  54. Autonomy and Control of State Agencies

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  55. Autonomy and Regulation of State Agencies: Reinforcement, Indifference or Compensation?

    Article • Public Organization Review, June 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  56. THE CONSOLIDATION OF NATIONAL PARLIAMENTS WITHIN AN ENLARGING EU

    Article • Innovative Issues and Approaches in Social Sciences, January 2008, Zalozba Vega, d.o.o.

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  57. National Parliaments within the Enlarged European Union

    Article • June 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  58. Irish political data 2001

    Article • Irish Political Studies, January 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  59. Discretion

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  60. Ireland

    Article • Nature

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  61. Reform of Public Policy-Making in Ireland

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

  62. Agency Management in a Time of Crisis

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh