| Autonomy and control of state agencies K Verhoest, PG Roness, B Verschuere, K Rubecksen, M MacCarthaigh Comparing States and Agencies. Hampshire, 2010 | 563 | 2010 |
| Accountability in Irish parliamentary politics M MacCarthaigh Institute of Public Administration, 2005 | 121 | 2005 |
| Autonomy and regulation of state agencies: reinforcement, indifference or compensation? PG Roness, K Verhoest, K Rubecksen, M MacCarthaigh Public Organization Review 8, 155-174, 2008 | 100 | 2008 |
| Collaborative cost-cutting: Productive efficiency as an interdependency between public organizations T Elston, M MacCarthaigh, K Verhoest Public Management Review 20 (12), 1815-1835, 2018 | 96 | 2018 |
| Public service values M MacCarthaigh | 85 | 2008 |
| Agency termination in Ireland: Culls and bonfires, or life after death? M MacCarthaigh Public Administration 92 (4), 1017-1037, 2014 | 67 | 2014 |
| Managing state-owned enterprises in an age of crisis: an analysis of Irish experience M MacCarthaigh Policy Studies 32 (3), 215-230, 2011 | 66 | 2011 |
| Public sector reform in Ireland: Countering crisis M MacCarthaigh Springer International Publishing, 2017 | 65 | 2017 |
| Sharing services, saving money? Five risks to cost-saving when organizations share services T Elston, M MacCarthaigh Public Money & Management 36 (5), 349-356, 2016 | 60 | 2016 |
| Analyzing longitudinal continuity and change in public sector organizations M MacCarthaigh, PG Roness International Journal of Public Administration 35 (12), 773-782, 2012 | 53 | 2012 |
| The un-politics of new public management in Ireland N Hardiman, M MacCarthaigh Administrative reforms and democratic governance, 73-85, 2011 | 51 | 2011 |
| Politics, policy preferences and the evolution of Irish bureaucracy: A framework for analysis M MacCarthaigh Irish Political Studies 27 (1), 23-47, 2012 | 50 | 2012 |
| The Irish state administration database N Hardiman, M MacCarthaigh, CD Scott University College Dublin, 2006 | 40 | 2006 |
| Reforming the Westminster model of agency governance: Britain and Ireland after the crisis K Dommett, M MacCarthaigh, N Hardiman Governance 29 (4), 535-552, 2016 | 38 | 2016 |
| Bicameralism in the Republic of Ireland: The Seanad abolition referendum M MacCarthaigh, S Martin Irish Political Studies 30 (1), 121-131, 2015 | 37 | 2015 |
| Mapping public sector organizations: An agenda for future research M MacCarthaigh, PG Roness, K Sarapuu International Journal of Public Administration 35 (12), 844-851, 2012 | 35 | 2012 |
| Tangling with the Troika:‘domestic ownership’as political and administrative engagement in Greece, Ireland, and Portugal N Hardiman, C Spanou, JF Araújo, M MacCarthaigh Public Management Review 21 (9), 1265-1286, 2019 | 31 | 2019 |
| Organising for growth: Irish state administration 1958-2008 N Hardiman, M MacCarthaigh The Economic and Social Review 41 (3), 367, 2010 | 31 | 2010 |
| How governments retrench in crisis: the case of Ireland N Hardiman, M MacCarthaigh Available at SSRN 2332653, 2013 | 29 | 2013 |
| Mapping and understanding organizational change: Ireland 1922–2010 M MacCarthaigh International Journal of Public Administration 35 (12), 795-807, 2012 | 29 | 2012 |
