Dr. Anthony Mc Cashin
Visiting Research Fellow, Sch Office - Social Work & Social Policy
Biography
Graduate of UCD (1968- 1971) B Soc.Science
Post Graduate Diploma in Statistics, Trinity College Dublin 1972
1971- 1973: Research Assistant, Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin
1973- 1974: Post Graduate Fellow, Dept of Sociology, Uiversity of Essex; 1974: MA University of Essex 1975-79: Research Officer, National Combat Poverty Committee, Dublin 1979-1980: Research Officer, Institute of Public Administration, Dublin 1980- 84: Lecturer in Social Policy, University College Cork (NUI) 1984-1986: Research Officer, Commission on Social Welfare, Dublin 1986- 1992: Social Policy Analyst, NMESC, Dublin 1992- currently: Lecturer in Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Anthony McCashin, Continuity and Change in the Welfare State: Social Security in the Republic of Ireland, First, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 1 - 282pp
Anthony McCashin, How Much Change? Pierson and the Welfare State Revisited, Policy and Politics , 44, 2016
Ireland : From Boom to Bust in, editor(s)Schubert, Klaus; de Villota, Paloma;Kuhlmann, Johanna , Challenges to European Welfare Systems, Springer, 2016, pp350 - 369, [Anthony McCashin]
Anthony McCashin, Social Security Expenditures in Ireland, 1981-2007;an analysis of welfare state change, Policy and Politics, 40, (4), 2012, p547 - 567
Unter Modernisierungsdruck in, editor(s)Klaus Schubert, Simon Hegelich Ursula Bazant , EuropaischeWohlfartssysteme Ein Handbuch, Wiesbaden, VS VERLAG fur SOZIALWISSENSCHAFTEN, 2008, pp355 - 378, [ Anthony McCashin, Judy O'Shea]
Public Social Security Pensions and Private Mandatory Pensions in, editor(s)Gerard Hughes and Jim Stewart , Choosing your Future. how to reform Ireland's Pension System, Dublin, TASC/New Island, 2007, pp142 - 175, [Anthony McCashin]
Income Support for Older People in, editor(s)Mel Cousins , Welfare Policy and Poverty, Dublin, Institute of Public Administration, 2007, pp139 - 168, [Anthony McCashin]
Attitudes to Poverty and Inequality in the Republic of Ireland in, editor(s)Payne, D., J. Garry and N. Hardiman , Irish Social and Political Attitudes, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2006, pp43 - 59, [A. McCashin and D.Payne]
The State Pension- Towards a Basic Income for the Elderly? in, editor(s)Stewart, .J. , Richer, For Poorer. An Investigation of the Irish Pension System, Dublin, New Island, 2005, pp94 - 128, [A. McCashin]
Anthony McCashin, Social Security in Ireland, First, Dublin, Gill and Maccmillan, 2004, 3 - 373pp
A. McCashin, E. 0' Sullivan, and C. Brennan, The NESF. Social Policy Formulation and Social Partnership in the Republic of Ireland, Policy and Politics, 30, (2), 2002, p263 - 279
A. McCashin, The Private Rented Sector in the Republic of Ireland in the 21st Century; Policy Choices, Dublin, Threshold and St. Pancras Housing Association, 2000
A. McCashin, Employment Aspects 0. (Young Lone Motherhood), Dublin, National Youth Federation and TREOIR, 1997
Male Breadwinner; A Case Study of Gender and Social Security in the Republic of Ireland in, editor(s)Byrne, A. and M. Leonard , Women and Irish Society: A Sociological Reader, Belfast, Beyond the pale Publications, 1997, [A. McCashin and G. Cook]
Anthony McCashin, Employment Aspects of Young Lone Parenthood, Dublin, National Youth Federation and TREOIR, July, 1997
Anthony McCashin, Lone Mothers in Ireland. A Local Study., First, Dublin, Oaktree Press, 1996, 1 - 214pp
F . .I Convery and A. McCashin, Reason and Reform. Studies in Social Policy, Dublin, Institute of Public Administration, 1995
A. McCashin, Lone Parents in the Republic of Ireland. Enumeration, Description and Implications for Social Security, Dublin, Economic and social Research Institute, Broadsheet Series. no. 29, 1993
Anthony McCashin, Lone Parents in the Republic of Ireland: Enumeration, Description and Implications for Social Security., n.a., Dublin, Economic and Social Research Institute, 1993, 1 - 123pp
Family Income Support in Ireland. Trends and Issues in, editor(s)Healy, S. and B. Reynolds , Poverty and Family Income Policy, Dublin, CORI, 1988, [A. McCashin]
A. McCashin and M. Morrissey, Housing Policy, North and South, Administration, 33, (3), 1985, p295 - 325
A. McCashin and D. Courtney, Social Welfare. The Implications of Demographic Change. Report No. 72, Dublin, National Economic and Social Council, 1984
Social Policy 1957-1982 in, editor(s)Litton, F. , Unequal Achievement. The Irish Experience 1957-1882, Dublin, Institute of Public Administration, 1982, [A. McCashin]
A. McCashin, Aspects of Family Income Support in the Republic of Ireland, Social Policy and Administration, 16, (1), 1982, p8 - 18
A. McCashin and L. .Ioyce, Poverty and Social Policy, Dublin, Institute of Public Administration, 1982, 156pp
A. McCashin, Welfare Rights and Poverty, Social Studies, 6, (2), 1979, p123 - 135
A. McCashin, Rural Dole Payments, Social Studies (now titled Irish Journal of Sociology), 3, 1975, p366 - 376
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
A. McCashin, NESC and Housing Policy, Cornerstone, 2005
A. McCashin, What Future for Private Renting?, Cornerstone [magazine of the Homeless Agency], 2001, p10 - 12
The Tax Welfare Treatment of Households in, The Report of the Working Group Examining the Treatment of Married, Cohabiting and One-Parent Families under the Tax and Social Welfare Codes, Dublin, Stationery Office, 1999, [A. McCashin]
A. McCashin, Fact or Fiction?, Poverty Today [Combat Poverty Agency magazine], 1996, p11 - 12
A. McCashin, Income Distribution. Background paper No. 1, Commission on Social Welfare, 1986
A. McCashin, Will Ireland ever Have a Social Policy?, Text of the lan Hart Memorial Lecture in Simon Community Newsletter,, 1984
A. McCashin, The Political Sociology of PAYE, Bulletin of the Sociological Association of Ireland, 1979
A. McCashin and H. Donoghue, Evaluation of the 1975 Supplementary Welfare Allowances Act, Dublin, National Combat Poverty Committee, 1979
A. Mc Cashin and D. Payne, Welfare State Legitimacy: The Republic of Ireland in Comparative perspective, ESPAnet Annual Conference Making Social Policy in the Post Industrial Age, University of Friebourg, Switzerland, 19-23 Sept. 2005
A. Mc Cashin and D. Payne, Welfare State Legitimacy: The Republic of Ireland in Comparative perspective, Making Social Policy in the Post Industrial Age, University of Friebourg, Switzerland, 19-23 Sept. 2005
Research Expertise
Description
Analysis of Social Policy in Ireland Social Security, Poverty and Income Distribution Lone Parent Families and Family Policy Housing Policy Public Opinion, Social Attitudes and the Welfare StateProjects
- Title
- Irish Social and Political Attitudes Survey
- Summary
- Designed a module on attitudes to poverty, inequality and social policy in the ISPAS-this was a national interview survey of adults' social and poitical attitudes and behaviour. Fieldwork undertaken in 2002 (collaborators Dr Diane Payne and Dr Niamh Hardiman, UCD)
- Funding Agency
- IRCHSS
- Date From
- 2000
- Date To
- 2005
Recognition
Representations
Chairman, Social Policy Advisory Group, Simon Community National Office
Member of Threshold Research Advisory Group.
Occasional contributor to magazines of Combat Poverty Agency (Poverty Today), Homeless Agency (Cornerstone) and the Irish Times
Memberships
Vice Chairman, Irish Social Policy Association Member of Social Policy Association, UK Member of ESPAnet, European Social Policy Association Network Member of Institute of European Afairs Member of Economic and Social Research Institute Member of Social and Statistical Inquiry Society of Ireland