Publications

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Book

The New Trilemma of Advanced Capitalism: Democracy, Growth and Effective Climate Action (with Hanna Schwander, Cyril Benoît, Tim Vlandas). Forthcoming with Agenda Publishing (2025).

Articles

There is more to national economies than the national economy: extending the Growth Model research programme in comparative political economy (with Mark Blyth) in Socio-Economic Review, (2025), https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwaf003

Winner-Takes-All: Corporate Tax Avoidance, Market Power, and Wealth Concentration in Advanced Capitalist Democracies (with Oscar Barrera-Rodríguez, Lakshmi Menon, Rafael Quintero Godinez, Linus Zechlin) – Democracy Challenged Working Paper Series, (2025), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15351350

Growth models and the comparative political economy of Europe in Comparative European Politics, (2024), https://doi.org/10.1057/s41295-023-00372-2

Brexit and the ties that bind: how global finance shapes city-level growth models (with Nicolò Fraccaroli, Mark Blyth) in Journal of European Public Policy, (2023), https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2023.2176531

Global Capital and National Growth Models: The Cases of Ireland and Latvia (with Dorothee Bohle) in Diminishing Returns: The New Politics of Growth and Stagnation, (2022), Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197607855.003.0013

The role of the media in shaping attitudes toward corporate tax avoidance in Europe: Experimental evidence from Ireland (with Liam Kneafsey) in Review of International Political Economy, (2022), https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2021.1966539

The Comparative Political Economy of Growth Models: Explaining the Continuity of FDI-Led Growth in Ireland and Hungary (with Dorothee Bohle) in Politics and Society (2021) https://doi.org/10.1177/0032329220985723

It takes two to tango: mortgage markets, labor markets and rising household debt in Europe (with Alison Johnston, Gregory W. Fuller) in Review of International Political Economy, (2021), https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2020.1721455

Introduction: Is the European Union capable of integrating diverse models of capitalism? (with Alison Johnston) in New Political Economy (2021), https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2017.1370442

Celtic phoenix or leprechaun economics? The politics of an FDI-led growth model in Europe (with Samuel Brazys) in New Political Economy (2021), https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2017.1370447

The role of corporate tax in Ireland’s foreign direct investment growth model (with Samuel Brazys) in Greens/EFA report (2021),  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Poe1mQTdaTH9tHIeNWTQ5FvHs3q_km6q/view?usp=sharing

The rise and fall of social partnership in Ireland in The Role of Social Partners in Managing Europe’s Great Recession(Routledge) (2021), https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003186144-10/rise-fall-social-partnership-ireland-aidan-regan

What Kind of Ireland? (with Niamh Hardiman, David M. Farrell, Eoin Carolan, John Coakley, Colin Scott, Ben Tonra, Alexa Zellentin) in The Oxford Handbook of Irish Politics (Oxford University Press) (2021), https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/38172/chapter/333028320

The distribution of income and wealth in Ireland (with Micheál L. Collins) in in The Oxford Handbook of Irish Politics (Oxford University Press) (2021),https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/38172/chapter/333030737

Small states in global markets (with Samuel Brazys) in The Oxford Handbook of Irish Politics (Oxford University Press) (2021), https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/38172/chapter/333030460

The Political Economy of Fiscal Policy in Ireland (with Stephen Kinsella) in The Oxford Handbook of Irish Politics(Oxford University Press) (2021), https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/38172/chapter/333030662

Are Irish voters moving to the left? (with Stefan Müller) in Irish Political Studies, (2021), https://doi.org/10.1080/07907184.2021.1973737

Housing prices and wealth inequality in Western Europe (with Gregory W. Fuller, Alison Johnston) in West European Politics, 01402382.2019.1644411 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2019.1644411

Understanding collective bargaining coordination: a network relational approach. The case of Ireland (with Liam Kneafsey) in CESifo Working Paper 2020-02 (2020), https://wps.fep.ul.pt/cesifo/wp/2020/wp-cesifo-2020-02.pdf

Ireland: life after social partnership (with Vincenzo Maccarrone, Roland Erne) in Collective Bargaining in Europe: Towards an Endgame (European Trade Union Institute) (2019), https://www.etui.org/publications/collective-bargaining-in-europe-towards-an-endgame

New approaches to political economy (with Bruno Amable, Sabina Avdagic, Lucio Baccaro, Jonas Pontusson, Natascha Van der Zwan) in Socio-Economic Review, (2019), https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwy010

Rethinking social pacts in Europe: Prime ministerial power in Ireland and Italy in European Journal of Industrial Relations, 0959680116672661 (2017), https://doi.org/10.1177/0959680116672661

Global finance, labor politics, and the political economy of housing prices (with Alison Johnston) in Politics & Society, 0032329217719279 (2017), https://doi.org/10.1177/0032329217719279

The politics of capitalist diversity in Europe: explaining Ireland’s divergent recovery from the euro crisis (with Samuel Brazys) in Perspectives on Politics, S1537592716004007 (2017), https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592716004007

Post-crisis social dialogue and economic governance in Ireland in Talking Through the Crisis (UCD Press) (2017), https://www.ucdpress.ie/product/9781782386697/talking-through-the-crisis

The imbalance of capitalisms in the Eurozone: Can the north and south of Europe converge? in Comparative European Politics, 15(6), 969–990 (2017), https://doi.org/10.1057/cep.2015.5

European Monetary Integration and the Incompatibility of National Varieties of Capitalism (with Alison Johnston) in Journal of Common Market Studies, jcms.12289 (2016), https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12289

Debunking myths: Why austerity and structural reforms have had little to do with Ireland’s economic recovery in LSE EUROPP Blog (2016), https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2016/04/11/why-austerity-and-structural-reforms-have-had-little-to-do-with-irelands-economic-recovery/

Taming Global Finance in an Age of Capital? Wage-Setting Institutions’ Mitigating Effects on Housing Bubbles(LEQS Discussion Paper No. 87/2015) (2015), http://www.lse.ac.uk/europeanInstitute/LEQS/LEQSPaper87.pdf

The impact of the Eurozone adjustment on Ireland in The Governance of Policy Reforms in Southern Europe and Ireland: Social Dialogue Actors and Institutions in Times of Crisis (ILO), pp. 127–142 (2014), https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/—ed_protect/—soc_sec/documents/publication/wcms_246743.pdf

What explains Ireland’s fragile recovery from the crisis? The politics of comparative institutional advantage in CESifo Forum, pp. 26–31 (2014), https://www.cesifo.org/en/publikationen/2014/monograph/what-explains-ireland-s-fragile-recovery-crisis-politics-comparative

Why don’t governments need trade unions anymore? The death of social pacts in Ireland and Italy (with Pepper D. Culpepper) in Socio-Economic Review, (2014), https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwt022

The Impact of the Eurozone Crisis on Ireland: A Political Economy Analysis in ILO Working Papers (2013), https://www.ilo.org/global/publications/working-papers/WCMS_230366/lang–en/index.htm

Austerity measures in crisis countries—results and impact on mid-term development (with Vassilis Monastiriotis, Niamh Hardiman, Chiara Goretti, Lucio Landi, J. I. Conde-Ruiz, Carmen Marín, Ricardo Cabral) in Intereconomics, s10272-013-0457-1 (2013), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-013-0457-1

Book Review: The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism in Political Studies Review, 1478-9302.12016 (2013), https://doi.org/10.1111/1478-9302.12016

Political Tensions in Euro-Varieties of Capitalism: The Crisis of the Democratic State in Europe? EUI Working Paper MWP 2013/24 (2013), https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2269668

Political Tensions in the Eurozone Labour Market and Macroeconomic Imbalances in the Core and PeripherySSRN (April 2013), https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2272624

The political economy of social pacts in the EMU: Irish liberal market corporatism in crisis in New Political Economy, (2012), https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2012.669431

The rise and fall of Irish social partnership: The political economy of institutional change in European varieties of capitalism in UCD SPIRe Working Paper Series (2012), https://www.ucd.ie/politicalscience/t4media/WPS2012-01.pdf

The Core Executive and Policy Coordination (with Niamh Hardiman, Mary Shayne) in Governing Ireland: From Cabinet Government to Delegated Governance (Institute of Public Administration), pp. 106–127 (2012), https://www.ipa.ie/_fileUpload/Documents/Governing_Ireland_Full_Book.pdf

Does discourse matter in the formation and consolidation of social pacts? Social partnership and labour market policy in Ireland in Critical Policy Studies, 19460171.2010.508483 (2010), https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2010.508483

The Political Economy of Wage Bargaining in the EMU: Irish Liberal Corporatism in Crisis APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper, SSRN (2010), https://ssrn.com/abstract=1657571