Public governance roles of third sector organisations in Ireland: A comparison with South Africa

Freda Donoghue

doi:10.1108/S0195-6310(2009)0000026007

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Comparative Social Research

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Public governance roles of third sector organisations in Ireland: A comparison with South Africa

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Title:	Public governance roles of third sector organisations in Ireland: A comparison with South Africa
Author(s):	Freda Donoghue
Volume:	26 Editor(s): Bernard Enjolras, Karl Henrik Sivesind ISBN: 978-1-84950-607-6 eISBN: 978-1-84950-608-3
Citation:	Freda Donoghue (2009), Public governance roles of third sector organisations in Ireland: A comparison with South Africa, in Bernard Enjolras, Karl Henrik Sivesind (ed.) Civil Society in Comparative Perspective (Comparative Social Research, Volume 26), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.49-69
DOI:	10.1108/S0195-6310(2009)0000026007 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Article type:	Chapter Item
Extract:	Inspired by his work, this chapter seeks to empirically explore the third sector's role potential to create substantive uncertainty using Irish data, and to draw some comparisons between the situation in South Africa, as outlined by Habib, and that which pertains in Ireland. Both countries present interesting cases for comparison. South Africa has quite recently come through a major struggle for national identity and democracy, whereas the Republic of Ireland gained independence from Britain in 1922, and has been a nation-state since that time. Both countries, therefore, demonstrate histories of struggles for national identity, albeit from different oppressors and at different historical junctures. The roles played by the respective third sectors in public governance have changed en route and there is also a diversity of public governance roles played by various third sector actors. We now spend some time on those roles looking first at South Africa and then at Ireland.