Books
This book examines how election news reporting has changed over the last half century in Ireland by means of a unique dataset involving 25m words from newspapers as well as radio and television coverage. The authors examine reporting in terms of framing, tone, and the distribution of coverage.They also focus on how the economy has affected election coverage as well as media reporting of leaders and personalities, gender and the effect of the commercial basis of media outlets. The findings - drawn from a machine learning computer system involving a huge content analysis study - will interest academics as well as politicians and policy makers internationally.
A review in the Irish Times, Thursday, Aug 1, 2019.
Media coverage of our findings at Broadsheet.ie (17th Feb., 2020) and The Business Post (16th Feb., 2020). Bignewsnetwork.com, The Irish Film & Television Network, the Journal of Music, MerrionStreet.ie, and the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cited the book in profiles of one of its co-authors, Prof. Kevin Rafter.
A review in the journal Estudios Irlandeses, issue 16, 17 March, 2021.
Breen, M. 2013. The Politics of IMF Lending (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan). 219 pp.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is one of the most important international organisations in modern times. Every year for the last decade, more than one billion people have lived in countries under IMF supervision. Only a handful of developing countries have not participated in an IMF program, and this list grows smaller every year. This book reconsiders the role of the large G7 shareholders in IMF decision-making, examining shareholder influence in a comprehensive statistical analysis, and case studies of Europe (Ireland, Iceland, and Greece), and East Asia (Indonesia, Thailand, and Korea). It argues that we must focus on shareholders' domestic economic interests, including bank and export interests, in order to understand variation in the IMF's core activities in the world economy.
A review in the Review of International Law and Politics, Issue 40.