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Abstact This article attempts to analyse some of the experiences of the Irish community and voluntary sector’s participation in social partnership. The article explores the politics of social partnership and discusses the implications of participation in social partnership for the potential strategies and choices for the community and voluntary sector. It looks at the outcomes of that participation from the perspective of both its impact on income and other inequalities and its impact on the community and voluntary sector and its relationship with the state, other actors and internal relationships within the sector. Alternatives to social partnership are explored and the article concludes that, while limited, there are specific gains and reasons to ‘stay inside’. At the same time, we should be firmly focused on the ‘outside’ and on alternative alliances, tactics, visions and ideologies. Social partnership in Ireland Since 1987, the process of governance in Ireland includes a model of social partnership based on three-yearly economic and social agreements between the government and three pillars ‐ employers, trade unions and farmers. From 1996, the national social partnership process has involved a fourth pillar, the Community and Voluntary Pillar. This widening of the national social partnership process brought about a broadening of the agenda so that equality, poverty and redistribution were more explicit objectives of the later rounds of national agreements. While the social partnership process was also replicated at a local level, this development will not be discussed in this paper. The Community and Voluntary Pillar includes seven national organizations and the Community Platform. Membership of the ‘Pillar’ was designated by the government in October 1996, and the Pillar has since defined itself as primarily about social inclusion, equality and poverty. The Community Platform, formed in April 1996, is a self-organized grouping of national organizations that has defined itself as exclusively concerned with

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