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Email: bernadette.connaughton@ul.ie

Biography

Bernadette Connaughton is a Senior Lecturer in Public Administration at the Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick. Her main research interests include politico-administrative relations, Ireland’s relationship with the EU, and environmental governance. She has published on those areas and specifically in relation to Irish public administration in authored, co-authored and edited books, and journals such as Public Administration, Irish Political Studies Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, Regional and Federal Studies, and Administration.

Research Profile

Selected Publications

1. Connaughton, B. (2022) ‘Ireland’s Core Executive at One Hundred Years of Self-government: Navigating Coalition, Crisis and Complexity’ in K. Kolltveit and R. Shaw (eds) Core Executives in a Comparative Perspective: Governing in Complex Times Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 123-141.

2. Connaughton, B. (2022) ‘The implementation of e-Participation platforms in Ireland: the case of OpenConsult’ in Tiina Randma-Liiv and Veiko Lember (eds.) Engaging Citizens in Policy Making: eParticipation practices in Europe, Aldershot: Edward Elgar, pp. 196-208.

3. Connaughton, B. (2021) ‘The role of the legislature in policy analysis’ in J. Hogan and Mary P. Murphy (eds.) Policy Analysis in Ireland, Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 93-106.

4. Connaughton, B. (2019) The Implementation of Environmental Policy in Ireland: Lessons from translating EU directives into action, Manchester: Manchester University Press.

5. Connaughton, B. (2018) ‘Ireland: Steps towards a political coordination role for ministerial advisers’ in Shaw, R. and Eichbaum, C. (eds) Ministers, Minders and Mandarins: An International Study of Relationships at the Executive Summit of Parliamentary Democracies, Aldershot: Edward Elgar., pp 110-128.

6. Connaughton, B. (2017) ‘Political administrative relations: The role of political advisers’, Administration 64:2, 162-185.

7. Connaughton, B. (2016) 'Confronting interrelated crises in the EU's Western periphery: Steering Ireland-EU relations back to the centre' In: Jose M. Magone, Brigid Laffan and Christian Schweiger (eds.) Core Periphery Relations in the European Union. London: Routledge, pp. 166-178.

8. Connaughton, B. (2015) 'Navigating the borderlines of politics and administration: Reflections on the role of ministerial advisers'. International Journal of Public Administration, 38 :1-9.

9. Connaughton, B. (2015) 'Developing a hybrid identity? Europeanisation of public servants at the continent's far-west', in Sager, Fritz and Overeem, Patrick (eds.) The European Civil Servant: A Shared Administrative Identity? London: Routledge, pp. 199-218.

10. Connaughton, B. (2014) 'A rubik’s cube dilemma? The implementation of EU waste management policy in Ireland', Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 16, 201-220.