Administration is the peer-reviewed journal of the Institute of Public Administration of Ireland. It has been published quarterly since 1953. As the principal journal concerned with Irish public administration and its development, it seeks to combine original scholarship on public administration from a variety of disciplines with the insights and experiences of practitioners. In addition to research articles, which are double blind peer reviewed, the journal welcomes comments on articles, opinion pieces, letters, notices, reports and reviews.

Administration is the peer-reviewed journal of the Institute of Public Administration of Ireland, published quarterly since 1953. As the leading journal focused on Irish public administration and its development, it aims to combine original scholarship on public administration from various disciplines with insights and experiences from practitioners. In addition to double-blind peer-reviewed research articles, the journal welcomes comments on articles, opinion pieces, letters, notices, reports, and reviews.

《Administration》是爱尔兰公共行政研究所的同行评审期刊，自1953年起每季度出版。作为关注爱尔兰公共行政及其发展的主要期刊，它旨在结合来自多个学科的公共行政原创研究与实践者的见解和经验。除了经过双盲同行评审的研究文章外，期刊还欢迎对文章的评论、观点文章、信件、通知、报告和书评。

Administration

Abstract In this article, we reconsider our 2011 book Lord of the files: Working for the government , which was the first of its kind to collect written sources from hundreds of writers inside and outside the public service on the realities and complexities of Irish public service life. Its portrayal of institutional life, state administration and the delivery of public services as they play out within the values expected of public servants aimed to provide a rounded understanding of what is conventionally known as ‘working for the government’. In the decade or more that has elapsed since publication, the context for public policy and administration in Ireland has significantly changed. We identify what we believe are important narratives arising out of momentous events that have defined recent history and which have affected how the public service carries out its duties. We frame these narratives and bring to the fore our original objectives in the anthology by reflecting on how, in recent academic discourse, storytelling is seen as important to understanding the operation and culture of organisations. We take the opportunity to present and discuss new material, and previously overlooked material, that would earn a place in an updated anthology and maintain our purpose of improving the understanding of the public service.

Michael Mulreany

Denis O’Brien

Updating the files: Understanding the public service through storytelling and narrative

更新档案：通过讲故事和叙事理解公共服务

Abstract North/South cooperation on the island of Ireland has grown significantly in the last twenty-six years. Still, it can be argued that the delivery of that growth has happened mainly outside the formal Strand Two structures of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement with the North South Ministerial Council and its implementation bodies presently not directly involved in some of the main flagship cross-border projects in the areas of health, infrastructure, higher and further education, research, arts and culture. Instead, the Shared Island Unit, established in September 2020 and based within the Department of the Taoiseach, has been driving the delivery of the majority of projects in these areas, in many cases without direct input from the Northern Ireland Executive. This paper reviews how informal governance has been used to enhance cooperation and solve issues due to the deliberately limiting nature of the formal Strand Two institutions.

Ryan Feeney

Informal is the new normal in North–South relations

非正式性成为南北关系的新常态

Maurice Manning

A tribute to Michael Mulreany

向迈克尔·马尔里尼致敬

Abstract Many share Michael Mulreany’s interest in the processes associated with the outward reorientation of the Irish economy from the mid-to-late 1950s through to European Economic Community accession in 1973. The Irish case is unusual by international standards in the importance accorded to the policy advice that emanated from within the civil service. While much of the historical focus has been on the Whitaker report of 1958, the contribution of which is celebrated in the 2009 work edited by Mulreany, the Department of Finance did not win all of the crucial debates on outward reorientation in which it was engaged. In particular, it had opposed the introduction in 1956 of export profits tax relief, the origin of the low corporation tax regime that remains in place to this day. This paper revisits the policy positions of the Departments of Finance and Industry and Commerce over the post-war decades and traces the foreign direct investment intensity of the modern Irish economy to the outcome of these debates.

Frank Barry

Civil service post-war policy debates, Department of Finance orthodoxy and the contours of the modern Irish economy

战后公务员政策辩论、财政部正统观念与现代爱尔兰经济格局

Abstract This article outlines the background to an emergent all-island movement advocating for recognition of the rights of nature – including calls for recognition of Lough Neagh’s right to participate in its community ownership – and proposes that these developments could prefigure a far-reaching transition in our regard for our island home and all its subjects, including the more-than-human . Noting the significance of the fact that prominent voices in the Irish rights of nature movement originated in the borderlands of Derry and Donegal, the paper proposes that the plight of the iconic Lough Neagh in particular presents an unprecedented opportunity for governments in Dublin, Belfast and London to address a blind spot at the heart of the Anglo–Irish ‘peace process’, that is our regard for the intrinsic rights of the land, the waters, and all the communities of species who constitute our island home to flourish. With Ireland’s celebrated eco-philosopher and mystic, John Moriarty, the emergent movement is behind the call to enfranchise the earth and everything in it.

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Journal Impact	0.67
Quartiles(Global)	PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION(Q4)

ISSN	0001-8325, 2449-9471
h-index	10

Publication Information	Publisher: De Gruyter Open Ltd.，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 2015，Proportion of original research papers: 95.65%，Self Citation Rate:20.00%， Gold OA Rate: 97.33%
Average review cycle	网友分享经验：30 Weeks

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Updating the files: Understanding the public service through storytelling and narrative

Informal is the new normal in North–South relations

A tribute to Michael Mulreany

Civil service post-war policy debates, Department of Finance orthodoxy and the contours of the modern Irish economy

Are Lough Neagh and the rights of nature the unfinished business of ‘the peace process’?

Updating the files: Understanding the public service through storytelling and narrative

Informal is the new normal in North–South relations

A tribute to Michael Mulreany

Civil service post-war policy debates, Department of Finance orthodoxy and the contours of the modern Irish economy

Are Lough Neagh and the rights of nature the unfinished business of ‘the peace process’?