Labour Politics in Small Open Democracies

Paul G. Buchanan and Kate Nicholls explore the political and economic fortunes of organized labor in five small open democracies between 1975 and 2000. Of particular interest is the role of labor market institutions, organizational histories, and trade union ideologies in shaping outcomes under conditions of economic liberalization. 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.

Paul G. Buchanan is Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Auckland.

Kate Nicholls is a PhD candidate at Notre Dame.

List of Tables

ix

List of Figures

xi

Acknowledgements

xii

Preface

xv

1 Introduction: Methodological and Theoretical Issues

1

(24)

Small countries as exemplars of policy reform

1

(3)

Problems of analytic coupling: Case selection, dichotomous pairings and small sample comparisons

4

(3)

Labour politics as an analytic lens

7

(9)

Conceptualising unions as political actors: Organised labour and the labour relations regime

16

(7)

Summary

23

(2)

2 Australia and Chile

25

(64)

Introduction

25

(2)

Australia

27

(28)

Political insertion

31

(6)

Institutional conditioners

37

(6)

Agent-principal issues

43

(4)

Relations with business

47

(6)

Macroeconomic and social indicators

53

(2)

Summary

55

(1)

Chile

55

(32)

Political insertion

59

(13)

Institutional conditioners

72

(5)

Agent-principal issues

77

(3)

Relations with business

80

(5)

Macroeconomic and social indicators

85

(2)

Summary

87

(1)

Conclusion

87

(2)

3 New Zealand and Uruguay

89

(66)

Introduction

89

(1)

New Zealand

90

(28)

Political insertion

92

(4)

Institutional conditioners

96

(10)

Agent-principal issues

106

(5)

Relations with business

111

(4)

Macroeconomic and social indicators

115

(1)

Summary

116

(2)

Uruguay

118

(36)

Political insertion

119

(12)

Institutional conditioners

131

(6)

Agent-principal issues

137

(8)

Relations with business

145

(6)

Macroeconomic and social indicators

151

(1)

Summary

152

(2)

Conclusion

154

(1)

4 Ireland

155

(34)

Introduction

155

(2)

National, regional and global determinants of the Irish labour relations regime

157

(6)

Political insertion

163

(6)

Institutional conditioners

169

(6)

Agent-principal issues

175

(4)

Relations with business

179

(6)

Macroeconomic and social indicators

185

(2)

Conclusion

187

(2)

5 Conclusion: Explaining Cross National Variance in Labour Politics

189

(11)

Notes

200

(26)

Bibliography

226

(18)

Index

244

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Labour Politics in Small Open Democracies Australia, Chile, Ireland, New Zealand and Uruguay

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