Michael McGann

Good Clients and Hard Cases: The Role of Typologies at the Welfare Front Line

Michael McGann, Siobhan O'Sullivan, Mark Considine

Journal article  |  2022  |  SOCIAL SERVICE REVIEW

Frontline staff play a critical role in welfare-to-work delivery, making decisions about who gets selected for which supports and ..

Meeting the numbers: Performance politics and welfare-to-work at the street-level

M McGann

Journal article  |  2022  |  Irish Journal of Sociology

Over the past decade, social policy in Ireland has taken an increasingly ‘workfarist turn’. This has proceeded through benefit cut..

Can Robots Understand Welfare? Exploring Machine Bureaucracies in Welfare-to-Work

Mark Considine, Michael Mcgann, Sarah Ball, Phuc Nguyen

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF SOCIAL POLICY

The exercise of administrative discretion by street-level workers plays a key role in shaping citizens' access to welfare and empl..

A period of contention? The politics of post-crisis activation reform and the creeping marketisation of public employment services

Mary P Murphy, Michael McGann

Journal article  |  2022  |  IRISH POLITICAL STUDIES

Public employment services (PES) have undergone significant change since 2011, reshaping the roles of the market, state, and commu..

Introduction: Towards a Sustainable Welfare State

Mary P Murphy, Michael McGann

Journal article  |  2022  |  SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIETY

Some Useful Sources

M McGann, MP Murphy

Journal article  |  2022  |  Social Policy and Society

Debates about sustainable welfare and eco-social policy cut across many fields, from environmental studies to political economy, t..

Buying and Selling the Poor

Siobhan O'Sullivan, Mark Considine, Michael McGann

Book  |  2021

Buying and Selling the Poor ventures behind the scenes of the multibillion-dollar welfare-to-work system, offering new insights in..

Enabling Participation Income for an Eco-Social State

Francesco Laruffa, Michael McGann, Mary P Murphy

Journal article  |  2021  |  SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIETY

We revise Atkinson's concept of a 'participation income' (PI), repositioning it as a form of green conditional basic income that i..

Remodeling Street-Level Workers With Quasi-Markets: Comparing Ireland's Mixed Economy of Welfare-to-Work

Michael McGann

Journal article  |  2021  |  ADMINISTRATION & SOCIETY

Quasi-markets in employment services often follow social policy turns toward activation. Critics see this as no accident, arguing ..

Income Support in an Eco-Social State: The Case for Participation Income

Michael McGann, Mary P Murphy

Journal article  |  2021  |  SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIETY

Contemporary models of welfare capitalism have frequently been critiqued about their fit-for-purpose in provisioning for people's ..