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Australia and Chile

In: Labour Politics in Small Open Democracies

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  • Paul G. Buchanan

    (University of Auckland)

  • Kate Nicholls

    (University of Notre Dame)

Abstract

At first glance, the political economies of Australia and Chile appear to be worlds apart. Shaped by their different geographical locations, the liberalisation of regional and global trade regimes has made Chile into a major, though certainly not the biggest, player in the South American market, while Australia, along with New Zealand, uneasily but increasingly looks to strengthen ties with Asian trading partners. In terms of absolute wealth, Australia’s output in 1999 measured in GDP per capita was US$ 24,574 compared to Chile’s US$ 8652.1 In addition, the Commonwealth of Australia has been fortunate enough to have experienced uninterrupted democratic rule since gaining political independence, and its welfare system and patterns of property ownership have permitted a relatively egalitarian social structure to develop. In Chile, on the other hand, wealth has tended to be more clearly concentrated in the hands of a local elite, a process that was intensified during the country’s turn to authoritarianism between 1973 and 1990.

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  • Paul G. Buchanan & Kate Nicholls, 2003. "Australia and Chile," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Labour Politics in Small Open Democracies, chapter 2, pages 25-88, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-4039-3740-7_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9781403937407_2
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    Cited by:

    1. José Alemán, 2008. "Labor Market Deregulation and Industrial Conflict in New Democracies: A Cross‐National Analysis," Political Studies, Political Studies Association, vol. 56(4), pages 830-856, December.

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