Labour Politics in Small Open Democracies

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.

Autorentext
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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Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: Methodological and Theoretical Issues Australia and Chile New Zealand and Uruguay Ireland Conclusion: Explaining Regional and National Variance in Labour Politics Endnotes Bibliography Appendix