Labour Politics in Small Open Democracies

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Methodological and Theoretical Issues

   • Paul G. Buchanan, Kate Nicholls

   Pages 1-24

3. Australia and Chile

   • Paul G. Buchanan, Kate Nicholls

   Pages 25-88

4. New Zealand and Uruguay

   • Paul G. Buchanan, Kate Nicholls

   Pages 89-154

5. Ireland

   • Paul G. Buchanan, Kate Nicholls

   Pages 155-188

6. Conclusion: Explaining Cross National Variance in Labour Politics

   • Paul G. Buchanan, Kate Nicholls

   Pages 189-199

7. Back Matter

   Pages 200-251

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Paul G. Buchanan and Kate Nicholls explore the political and economic fortunes of organised labour in five small open democracies between 1975 and 2000. Of particular interest is the role of labour market institutions, organisational histories, and trade union ideologies in shaping outcomes under conditions of economic liberalisation. The book includes a theoretical and methodological introduction, followed by individual discussions of Australia and Chile, and New Zealand and Uruguay, grouped a cross-regional pairs, and Ireland as an extra-regional and atypical case.

• institutions
• interest
• labor market
• labour
• labour market
• liberalization
• organization
• trade
• democracy

• University of Auckland, New Zealand

  Paul G. Buchanan

• Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame, USA

  Kate Nicholls

PAUL G. BUCHANAN is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and Latin American Studies at the University of Auckland and is a recipient of Council on Foreign Relations, Fulbright, Heinz and Tinker Research grants. He is also the author of State, Labor, Capital: Democratizing Class Relations in the Southern Cone.

KATE NICHOLLS is currently completing her PhD in Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. She has previously published articles in the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies and Commonwealth and Comparative Politics.

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