| Autonomy and control of state agencies: Comparing states and agencies K Verhoest, P Roness, B Verschuere, K Rubecksen, M MacCarthaigh Springer, 2010 | 541 | 2010 |
| Accountability in Irish parliamentary politics M MacCarthaigh Institute of Public Administration, 2005 | 112 | 2005 |
| Autonomy and regulation of state agencies: reinforcement, indifference or compensation? PG Roness, K Verhoest, K Rubecksen, M MacCarthaigh Public Organization Review 8, 155-174, 2008 | 96 | 2008 |
| Public service values M MacCarthaigh | 80 | 2008 |
| Collaborative cost-cutting: Productive efficiency as an interdependency between public organizations T Elston, M MacCarthaigh, K Verhoest Public Management Review 20 (12), 1815-1835, 2018 | 78 | 2018 |
| Agency termination in Ireland: Culls and bonfires, or life after death? M MacCarthaigh Public Administration 92 (4), 1017-1037, 2014 | 64 | 2014 |
| Managing state-owned enterprises in an age of crisis: an analysis of Irish experience M MacCarthaigh Policy Studies 32 (3), 215-230, 2011 | 63 | 2011 |
| Public sector reform in Ireland: Countering crisis M MacCarthaigh Springer, 2017 | 60 | 2017 |
| Sharing services, saving money? Five risks to cost-saving when organizations share services T Elston, M MacCarthaigh Public Money & Management 36 (5), 349-356, 2016 | 54 | 2016 |
| The un-politics of new public management in Ireland N Hardiman, M MacCarthaigh Administrative reforms and democratic governance, 73-85, 2011 | 52 | 2011 |
| Analyzing longitudinal continuity and change in public sector organizations M MacCarthaigh, PG Roness International Journal of Public Administration 35 (12), 773-782, 2012 | 49 | 2012 |
| Politics, policy preferences and the evolution of Irish bureaucracy: A framework for analysis M MacCarthaigh Irish Political Studies 27 (1), 23-47, 2012 | 48 | 2012 |
| The Irish state administration database N Hardiman, M MacCarthaigh, CD Scott University College Dublin, 2006 | 41 | 2006 |
| Bicameralism in the Republic of Ireland: The Seanad abolition referendum M MacCarthaigh, S Martin Irish Political Studies 30 (1), 121-131, 2015 | 37 | 2015 |
| Reforming the Westminster model of agency governance: Britain and Ireland after the crisis K Dommett, M MacCarthaigh, N Hardiman Governance 29 (4), 535-552, 2016 | 36 | 2016 |
| Mapping public sector organizations: An agenda for future research M MacCarthaigh, PG Roness, K Sarapuu International Journal of Public Administration 35 (12), 844-851, 2012 | 34 | 2012 |
| Organising for Growth: Irish State Administration 1958-2008 N Hardiman, M MacCarthaigh The Economic and Social Review 41 (3), 367, 2010 | 33 | 2010 |
| Tangling with the Troika:‘domestic ownership’as political and administrative engagement in Greece, Ireland, and Portugal N Hardiman, C Spanou, JF Araújo, M MacCarthaigh Public Management Review 21 (9), 1265-1286, 2019 | 31 | 2019 |
| Mapping and understanding organizational change: Ireland 1922–2010 M MacCarthaigh International Journal of Public Administration 35 (12), 795-807, 2012 | 30 | 2012 |
| The corporate governance of commercial state-owned enterprises in Ireland M MacCarthaigh | 30 | 2009 |
