Volume 3 Issue 2 (2011)

• Welcome and Acknowledgements

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Articles

• Towards Improved Policymaking in Ireland:Contestability and the Marketplace for Ideas

  Frank Barry

  2-15

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• When, why and how to set up a state agency:

  Muiris MacCarthaigh, Paul Turpin

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• Female police officers in Ireland: challenges experienced in balancing domestic care responsibilities with work commitments and their implications for career advancement

  Maureen O’Hara

  35-54

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• Towards Democratic Justice? Land Reform in South Africa

  Siobhan O'Sullivan

  55-71

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Opinions

• Opinion : Identifying the Medical X Factor or the XY Factor: Health Professions Admission Test (HPAT) for Irish medical school entry

  Carol Linehan

  72-76

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• The 2011 Irish General Election: Critical, Realigning, Deviating, or Something Else?

  Timothy J. White

  77-90

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• Opinion : Learning for University, Government, Society

  W. Salters Sterling

  91-98

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• Opinion : The story of the first ‘Bórd Snip’

  Seán Cromien

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Book Reviews

• Book Review: Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly by John Kay

  Mary C. Murphy

  107-108

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• Book Review: Active Citzenship, What it Could Achieve and How edited by Bernard Crick and Andrew Lockyer

  Gemma Hussey

  109-110

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• Book Review: Unlikely Radicals, Irish Post-Primary Teachers and the ASTI 1909-2009 by John Cunningham

  Michael Geaney

  111-112

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• Book Review: The International Monetary Fund in the Global Economy, Banks, Bonds and Bailouts by Mark S Copelovitch

  Teresa Reidy

  113-114

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• Book Review: News From A New Republic: Ireland in the 1950s by Tom Garvin

  Tim McCarthy

  115-116

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• Book Review: Dan, The Rise of Daniel O’Connell 1775-1829 by Patrick M. Geoghegan Liberator, The Life and Death of Daniel O’Connell 1830-1847 by Patrick M. Geoghegan

  Stephen Collins

  117-118

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• Book Review: The Reluctant Taoiseach, John A. Costello by David McCullagh

  Martin Durack

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• Book Review: The SDLP – The struggle for agreement in Northern Ireland, 1970-2000 by Sean Farren

  Barry Desmond

  122-125

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• Book Review: Brown Gold, A history of Bord na Móna and the peat industry in Ireland by Donal Clarke

  Tom O'Connor

  126-127

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