Articles by Mary Murphy

April 13, 2023

💊 How institutional imagination can animate high-energy democracy

Mary Murphy

Mary Murphy argues that the recovery of democracy is contingent upon enabling participation and recovering trust though a high-energy democracy. We need political and institutional imagination to develop political institutions capable of addressing ecosocial challenges – including sustainability and equality

Mary Murphy

Professor, Department of Sociology, Maynooth University

Mary's research interests are ecosocial welfare, gender, care and social security, globalisation and welfare states, and power and civil society.

An active advocate for social justice and gender equality, she was appointed to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (2013–2017) and is currently a member of the Council of State in Ireland.

Creating an Ecosocial Future
Policy Press, May 2023

The Irish Welfare State in the 21^st Century: Challenges and Changes
Edited with Fiona Dukelow, Palgrave, 2016

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