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Niamh Hardiman, Ph.D.

Niamh.Hardiman@ucd.ie

University College Dublin

Address: University College Dublin

City: Dublin

Country: Ireland

About Me:

I'm a Professor in UCD SPIRe, a Research Fellow and member of the Executive of UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy, and a Fellow of Dublin European Institute
I studied in UCD (BA, MA) and at Nuffield College, Oxford (DPhil), and worked for a while at the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin. For several years I was Tutor in Politics and a Fellow of Somerville College Oxford, before moving to UCD. I'm currently Director of the interdisciplinary UCD Public Policy Programme, including the Master of Public Policy (MPP). I am currently serving as a member of the External Advisory Board of the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service (IGEES). My research interests centre on political economy and public policy. 
I'm interested in the politics underlying policy outcomes; the politics of how public policy priorities are formed and implemented; the implications of institutional design for 'good governance'; and the political economy of growth, distribution and redistribution. 
 
I was awarded an Irish Research Council (IRC) Senior Research Fellowship in 2003/4. In 2012, I held a Research Fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, working on fiscal responses to the Eurozone crisis.
I led an interdisciplinary project that gave rise to the Irish State Administration Database, and am now leading a project on Building State Capacity, as part of a programme of research on 'Innovative Public Policy' that is based in UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy. 
I lead an international project on The Political Economy of the European Periphery, the book from which will published by Oxford University Press. I participate in the H2020 project The Choice for Europe since Maastricht: Member States' Preferences for Economic and Financial Integration, EMU-SCEUS, SEP-210171108.
I convened an ECPR Joint Sessions Workshop in Warsaw in March 2015, jointly with Sven Steinmo (EUI), on The New Politics of Taxation

Among my recent papers are work on comparative fiscal response to crisis, methodological challenges arising from  analysis of fiscal policy choices, the political economy of housing bubbles, new approaches to thinking about the European 'periphery', the effects of crisis on state structures, the implications of state structures for vulnerability to crisis, and the fiscal foundations of the state.  

Research Interests

Political Economy

Public Policy

European Politics

Comparative Political Institutions

State Capacity

European Union

Countries of Interest

Ireland

Spain

Portugal

Greece