Biography
Bernadette Connaughton BA, MA, PhD (Limerick) is a Lecturer in Public Administration. Her teaching and research interests include environmental policy, Europeanisation, the public policy process and political-administrative read more relations. Bernadette has published articles in Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, Public Administration, Irish Political Studies, Federal and Regional Studies, International Journal of Public Administration, Halduskultuur-Administrative Culture, Administration and contributed the Irish case in several comparative studies. Her study titled The Implementation of Environmental Policy in Ireland: Lessons from translating EU directives into action was published by MUP in 2019. read les
Research Interests
Comparative public administration; Environmental Policy; Europeanisation; political-administrative relations and reform; public policy process.
Teaching Interests
My teaching interests are in comparative public administration, public policy process and Europeanisation. The modules I am currently teaching include:
PA6011 Public Administration Theory and Practice
PA4021 Ideas and Concepts in Public Administration
PA4018 Public Policy Process
PO4118 Ireland and EU Membership
PO5010 Graduate Seminar in European Governance
Publications
Book
Challenges to Reforming Health Financing Policy in Ghana
Mantey, M. and Connaughton, B
Politico-Administrative Relations at the Centre: Actors, Structures and Processes supporting the Core Executive
Connaughton, B; Sootla, G; Peters, BG (eds.)
Politico-Administrative Dilemma: Traditional Problems and New Solutions
Peters, BG; Sootla, G; Connaughton, B (eds.)
Book Chapter
Confronting interrelated Crises in the EU's Western Periphery: Steering Ireland-EU Relations back to the Centre
Connaughton, B.
Core Periphery Relations in the European Union
Developing a Hybrid Identity? Europeanisation of Public Servants at the Continent's Far-West
Connaughton, B.
The European Civil Servant: A Shared Administrative Identity?
Ministers and their Departments: Inside the Black Box' of the Policy Making Process'
Connaughton, B.
Governing Ireland
Europeanisation: a catalyst for change
Rees, N. and Connaughton, B.
Europeanisation and New Patterns of Governance in Ireland
Political institutions and administrative adaptation
Connaughton, B.
Europeanisation and New Patterns of Governance in Ireland
The politics of environmental policy
Connaughton, B.
Europeanisation and New Patterns of Governance in Ireland
Ireland'
Connaughton, B.
Partisan Appointees and Public Servants: An International Analysis of the Role of the Political Advisor
Expansion and Adaptation: Irish Public Administration Programmes and the International Context
Connaughton, B
Public Administration and Public Policy Degree Programmes in Europe: The Road from Bologna
Changing Relationships at the Summit? Analysing the Role and Institutionalisation of Special Advisors in Ireland
Connaughton, B
Politico-Administrative Relations at the Centre: Actors, Structures and Processes supporting the Core Executive
Staffing the 'Summit' - Evidence from East and West on the Role of Personal Advisors and Senior Civil Servants
Connaughton, B
Politico-Administrative Relations at the Centre: Actors, Structures and Processes supporting the Core Executive
Ireland: Modernisation as Opposed to Radical Reform'
Connaughton, B
Handbook of Administrative Reform: An International Perspective
Analysing Politico-Administrative Relations: Extending the Focus
Sootla, G; Peters, BG; Connaughton, B
Politico-Administrative Dilemma: Traditional Problems and New Solutions
'The impact of reform on politico-administrative relations in Ireland: enlightening or confusing roles of political and managerial accountability'
Connaughton, B
Politico Administrative Dilemma: Traditional Problems and New Solutions
EU Environmental Policy and Ireland
Connaughton, B
Ireland and the European Union: Nice, enlargement and the future of Europe
The Impact of Coalition Government on Politico-Administrative Relations in Ireland 1981-2002
Connaughton, B
Politico-Administrative Relations under Coalition Governments
The Governance of the European Union
Connaughton, B
Introduction to Comparative Public Administration
Developing Public Administration Education in Central and Eastern Europe: the Significance of the European Dimension in Academic Programmes?
Connaughton, B; Verheijen, T
Building Higher Education programmes in Public Administration in CEE countries
Peer Reviewed Journal
Navigating the borderlines of politics and administration: Reflections on the role of ministerial advisers
Bernadette Connaughton
International Journal Of Public Administration
DOI: 10.1080/01900692.2014.952820
A Rubik's Cube Dilemma? The Implementation of European Union Waste-Management Policy in Ireland
Connaughton, B
Journal Of Environmental Policy & Planning
DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2013.829748
From incidental to integral? Forty years of Ireland's engagement with EU environmental policy
Bernadette Connaughton
Administration
Minding' the Minister: Conceptualising the Role of the Special Adviser in Ireland
Connaughton, B
Administration
'Glorified Gofers, Policy Experts or Good Generalists': A Classification of the Roles of the Irish Ministerial Adviser
Connaughton, B
Irish Political Studies
DOI: 10.1080/07907184.2010.497636
Symptom or Remedy? Mediating Characteristics of the Irish Central Bureaucracy and their Influence on the Strategic Capacity of a 'Small' State'
Connaughton, B.
Halduskutuur Administrative Culture
Reform of Politico-Administrative Relations in the Irish System: Clarifying or Complicating the Doctrine of Ministerial Responsibility?
Connaughton, B
Irish Political Studies
Public Administration as a Field of Study: Divergence or Convergence in the Light of Europeanization?
Connaughton, B. and Randma, T.
Trames A Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Public administration education and europeanization: Prospects for the emancipation of a discipline?
Verheijen, T; Connaughton, B
Public Administration
DOI: 10.1111/j.0033-3298.2003.00373.x