The Domestic Politics of Globalisation

Conley, Tom

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“…In this, Howard's strategy won out over that of Keating, who had marginalised those who identified with the idea of the Australian 'battler' on both social and economic fronts (Wilson and Breusch 2004). A landslide victory to the Coalition in the 1996 election included a share of the working-class vote that was almost equal to that of the Labor Party (Conley 2001). By the late 1990s, building on the momentum created by One Nation, the groundwork had been laid to effectively deflect ongoing feelings of anxiety and resentment towards asylum seekers.…”

Section: The Making Of a Mainstreammentioning

confidence: 97%

The Liberal Paradox and the Politics of Asylum in Australia

McNevin

2007

Australian Journal of Political Science

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Section: The Making Of a Mainstreammentioning

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The Liberal Paradox and the Politics of Asylum in Australia

McNevin

2007

Australian Journal of Political Science

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“…3. A political and economic project that has attempted to change expectations about the role of the state and welfare (Cerny, 1997;Conley, 2001;Conley, 2004). This has been both a governance and societal project that has reshaped the advanced capitalist democracies and has been undertaken by governments of both the left and right.…”

Section: Defining Neoliberalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While Howard was a self-proclaimed economic liberal, he was also aware of the political consequences of rapid economic change (Conley, 2001). Assistance was essential for maintaining electoral support, but ad hoc support could not counter the unpreparedness of the Australian industry for import competition.…”

Section: Delayed Demise During the Howard Yearsmentioning

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The decline and fall of the Australian automotive industry

Conley

2022

Econ. labour relat. rev.

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This article assesses the historical political economy of the Australian automotive industry alongside the paradigmatic policy shift in economic policy away from protection towards neoliberalism and globalisation. It focuses on the politics of policy change and government assistance, providing a detailed historical narrative of the development and decline of the Australian automotive industry. From the mid-1980s to the mid-2010s, policy-makers oversaw the decline and fall of the Australian automotive industry. The process of decline occurred within a long-term cycle of new assistance, declining protection, new investment, inadequate restructuring, weak profitability, declining market share, and new assistance. Each cycle, however, was unable to stave off renewed crisis and eventual demise. Over the same period, Australian policy-makers transformed the economy from one of the most protectionist in the developed world to one of the most open. The article outlines the impact of neoliberalism on the automotive industry and analyses what the decline of the industry tells us about how the neoliberal policy structure operates in the ‘actually existing’ political economy. It argues that while the burgeoning neoliberal policy structure in the 1980s and 1990s acted to restrict the range of policy choices available for restructuring the industry, the domestic politics of industry assistance acted to restrict the neoliberal colonisation of the policy agenda. Neoliberal governance has had to contend with political imperatives for continuing assistance, while, at the same time, those political imperatives have been increasingly shaped by neoliberalism.

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“…Integral to the project of change in Australia, therefore, was a utilisation of a widespread and growing discourse of external constraint that increasingly became subsumed under the label of globalisation. Labor's rhetoric of globalisation (Conley 2001b) differed from that of the Liberal-National Coalition in Opposition, which argued for a more rapid and comprehensive change to the policy structure. Labor, however, had to construct a different coalition of interests than the Coalition would have, had it been in office.…”

Section: Ideological and Materials Components Of Globalisationmentioning

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“…Despite much academic criticism of deterministic assessments of globalisation (Conley 2002;Rosamond 2003;Hay and Watson 2003), it is evident that many policy-makers, economic elites and analysts believe that globalisation is an inevitable and irreversible process that compels states to embrace economic liberal policies (Conley 1999(Conley , 2001b.…”

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Globalisation and the Politics of Persuasion and Coercion

Conley¹

2004

Aust J Social Issues

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This paper argues that an economic liberal discourse of globalisation has been pivotal to the policy‐making process in Australia over the past 15 or so years. Both Labor and Coalition Governments have aimed to restrict the electoral fall‐out from the process of restructuring by persuading Australians that the world economy has forced particular policy changes and made alternative economic policy choices unviable. Policy‐makers act to influence conceptions of the appropriate role and responsibilities of the state through persuasion – the rhetoric they speak – and coercion – the policies they make. The pervasiveness of globalisation rhetoric in the public sphere has been essential to the governing process as a complement to and buffer for the coercive impact of economic liberal policy changes. As Australia has shifted from a protectionist to an economically liberal policy structure, the effects of globalisation have become clearer. Liberalisation has intensified pressures from the world political economy and coerced changes in all areas of policy and the economy, as well as in public perceptions about the ‘limits of government’. Globalisation and economic liberalism as persuasion and coercion are the component parts of a restructured system of political and economic governance: a paradigmatic shift away from the economic protectionism of the first 80 years of Australian federalism.

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The Domestic Politics of Globalisation

Cited by 13 publications

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The Liberal Paradox and the Politics of Asylum in Australia

The Liberal Paradox and the Politics of Asylum in Australia

The decline and fall of the Australian automotive industry

Globalisation and the Politics of Persuasion and Coercion

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