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Irish Education And The Financial Crisis, Deirdre Lillis, John Morgan
Irish Education And The Financial Crisis, Deirdre Lillis, John Morgan
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Regardless of economic fortunes, investment in education remains a constant in terms of its perceived value to Ireland and it is seen as critical to the economic recovery of the country. Ireland has one of the highest educational participation rates in the world, is considered to have the ‘most employable’ graduates in Europe and produces more graduates per 1000 inhabitants than any other European country. The degree to which the financial crisis has impacted Irish education is explored here.
Crisis And Policy Change: The Role Of The Political Entrepreneur, John Hogan, Sharon Feeney
Crisis And Policy Change: The Role Of The Political Entrepreneur, John Hogan, Sharon Feeney
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This paper seeks to investigate the inner mechanics of policy change. It aims to discover how ideas enter the political arena, and how endogenous forces within the policy making environment transform ideas into new policies. The central hypothesis is that in times of crisis, new ideas emanate from a number of change agents, but in order for any of these ideas to enter the institutional environment, one specific agent of change must be present: the political entrepreneur. Without political entrepreneurs, ideational change, and subsequent policy change, would not occur. The paper sets out a framework for identifying and explaining the …