NERI Seminar Dublin: Understanding the changes to the Irish social partnership policy after 2008

The NERI invites you to attend an upcoming seminar, Understanding the changes to the Irish social partnership policy after 2008 to be held on Wednesday 30th November, 2016.

The NERI seminar series aims to provide a forum for the presentation of research papers on topics of relevance to Irish public policy, North and South.  The seminars are open to all who are interested and free to attend. The details of the upcoming event are as follows:

Date: Wednesday, 30th November, 2016
Topic:  Understanding the changes to the Irish social partnership policy after 2008
Speaker: Nicola Timoney, Dublin Institute of Technology
Time: Tea and coffee from 3:50pm; the seminar commences at 4pm
Location: INTO Learning Centre, 38 Parnell Square, Dublin 1

Registration
Please visit the NERI website to register your interest in attending. Alternatively, you can email info@nerinstitute.net.

Abstract
Employing the critical juncture theory (CJT), a discursive institutionalist approach, this paper examines the nature of the changes to social partnership policy at the end of the decade of the 2000s.  Did these changes constitute a transformation in social partnership policy, or were they a continuation of a previously established policy pathway?  The CJT consists of three elements – economic crisis, ideational change, and the nature of the policy change – that must be identified for us to be able to declare with some certainty if the changes to social partnership policy constituted a critical juncture.  In this context, ideational change is very important, constituting the intermediating factor between a crisis and the subsequent nature of the policy change.  Our findings will help explain the nature of the changes to social partnership policy at this time. 

We hope you are free to join us on November 30th 

Kind regards

NERI

The NERI is a research company/think-tank on the Irish Economy launched in March 2012 and funded by unions affiliated to the ICTU.