Brendan Howlin TD launched a special issue of the journal Administration on 20 September 2017 at the IPA in Dublin. The special issue ‘Democratic Revolution: Evaluating the political and administrative reform landscape after the economic crisis’ was co-edited by Dr Theresa Reidy and Dr Fiona Buckley from the Department of Government at UCC and was focused on the political reform programme of the 2011-2016 coalition government of Fine Gael and Labour.