This paper conducts a comprehensive review of the literature published between 1989 and
2015 on infrastructure and related issues. The articles are classified and presented on the …

From bank bailouts to austerity, Europe's and Ireland's response to the economic crisis has
been engineered specifically to shift the burden of paying for the crisis onto ordinary citizens …

The United Nations 2030 Agenda emphasizes the importance of multistakeholder
partnerships for achieving the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Indeed, Goal …

This study is based on three Irish operational toll road public private partnership (PPP) case
studies, including interviews with 38 key stakeholders. Our findings show that the Irish …

The usefulness of neoliberalism as a theoretical concept in health research has been
debated. This paper argues that when the concept of neoliberalism is used precisely and …

A wave of privatisation is unfolding in Europe in the wake of the financial crisis, but it has yet
to receive serious scholarly attention. This paper examines the case of Ireland, where an …

Since the 1980s, city governments have increasingly focused on the adaptive reuse of
brownfield sites to address urban dereliction through top-down policy guidance and funding …

In 2001, Ireland announced a Primary Care Strategy that has led to the implementation of
primary care centers (PCCs) throughout the country. This article examines the nature and …

There is a dearth of phenomenological interpretive studies in public-private partnership
(PPP) policy in education service delivery. The limited extant literature on PPPs in education …

Fiona Dukelow analyses the reform of water services in Ireland as a case study of how
public services are being transformed in the context of crisis and austerity, amplifying …