The Move from Protectionism to Outward-looking Industrial Development: A Critical Juncture in Irish Industrial Policy?

Paul Donnelly, Dublin Institute of Technology
John Hogan, Dublin Institute of Technology

Document Type Article

Donnelly, P. and Hogan, J. (forthcoming 2011) ‘The Move from Protectionism to Outward-looking Industrial Development: A Critical Juncture in Irish Industrial Policy?’, Administration.

Abstract

This paper utilises a new framework for examining critical junctures to help us understand whether the changes to Irish industrial policy at the end of the 1950s constituted a critical juncture, breaking cleanly with what came before, or were a continuation of policy pathways previously established. The framework is made up of three elements, which must be identified in sequence, for us to be able to declare a critical juncture. Irish industrial policy is examined here, as it constitutes a core tenet of wider economic policy.