Dr Whelan was secretary of the Department of Economic Planning and Development. He presented this paper at an OECD symposium, ‘Managing Change in the Public Administration’, on 5–9 February 1979 in MadridSpain
Personal Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland Galway, and author of Deniable Contact: Back-channel Negotiation in Northern Ireland (Oxford University Press, 2021)
