Social policy responses to globalisation in Australia and New Zealand, 1980–2005

McClelland, Alastair; John, Susan St

doi:10.1080/10361140600672428

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“…Since the early 1930s, and particularly since the seminal 1984 U‐turn, economic and social reforms are ‘treasury‐led’ (Newberry : 285) in this country (e.g. McKinnon : 427; Mitchell : 3, 5; McClelland and St John : 181; Newberry : 502). The Treasury and a network of Treasury economists who were recruited since the 1970s have been the major change agents.…”

Section: New Zealand As a Typical Casementioning

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A State‐centred Explanation of the Finance‐Pension Nexus: New Zealand's Pension Reforms as a Typical Case

Trampusch

2017

Soc Policy Adm

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This study analyses the decision-making processes that led to the introduction of the New Zealand Superannuation Fund (a public pension reserve and investment fund), as well as the KiwiSaver Scheme, which is New Zealand's first soft-compulsory private pension scheme. Why and how are governments engaged in the development of funded pensions? These are the questions this study addresses. In analyzing the finance-pension nexus in New Zealand, this article adopts a statecentric approach. It argues that pension funding reforms are shaped by state officials who pursue their own motives because policymakers frame funded pensions as an instrument for achieving broader fiscal, economic and financial policy outcomes. Because New Zealand is a typical case of a state-centric explanation, a study of its pension funding reforms helps in finding causal links between finance and pensions.

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“…Additionally, the fifth Labour Government's pension reforms accorded with the Treasury's preference for market‐friendly reforms and concepts of self‐reliance (e.g. McClelland and St John : 181)…”

Section: New Zealand As a Typical Casementioning

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A State‐centred Explanation of the Finance‐Pension Nexus: New Zealand's Pension Reforms as a Typical Case

Trampusch

2017

Soc Policy Adm

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“…In the late 1990s, income inequality in Australia was growing and there was increasing resentment of many of the changes wrought by economic reform (Borland, Gregory and Sheehan 2001;Pappas 2001;McClelland and St John 2006). In June 2000 The Australian national newspaper reported on a study conducted by the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM), showing comparative changes to family incomes from 1982 to 1997.…”

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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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“…Subsequent market reforms generated major change and energetic debate (Castles 1994;Pusey 1992;Kelsey 1995). New Zealand's reform strategy was harsher, initiated by the radical fourth Labour government and continued by National (McClelland and St John 2006). These reforms coincided with declining growth (Hazledine and Quiggin 2006), which picked up only during Clark's fifth Labour government in the 2000s.…”

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Wage‐Earners' Welfare after Economic Reform: Refurbishing, Retrenching or Hollowing Out Social Protection in Australia and New Zealand?

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Australia and New Zealand developed distinctive 'wage-earner welfare states', with social protection largely delivered through high breadwinner basic incomes and residual social policies. Market reforms then pursued in both countries during the 1980s and 1990s retrenched important elements of the Antipodean model. Our article offers a novel characterization of major reforms to both welfare states from the mid-1990s to the early 2010s. We focus on industrial relations, as a form of wage-earner welfare, and expansions to social provision for families and retirees that may be viewed as responding to the evolving needs of wage-earners as family patterns diversify and populations age. Policy reversals complicate the picture of the long-term path of industrial relations. Voters rejected the Employment Contracts Act in New Zealand in 2000 and WorkChoices in Australia in 2007, with incoming labour governments moderating policy to favour wage-earner expectations of decent wages and fair bargaining. Alongside this, governments expanded both paternalistic social policies and private social provision. We argue these changes taken together produced a 'hollowing out' of wage-earner welfare in both countries, accompanied by increasingly stratified welfare, which marginalizes and stigmatizes many outside the workforce. But, we also note persistent differences, reflecting the more radical and 'pure' New Zealand experiment, its relatively centralized politics and stronger liberal tradition. Hence, Australia retains more progressive taxation and family support less connected with employment status, while making greater use of tax expenditures to support private welfare.

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Social policy responses to globalisation in Australia and New Zealand, 1980–2005

Cited by 17 publications

References 6 publications

A State‐centred Explanation of the Finance‐Pension Nexus: New Zealand's Pension Reforms as a Typical Case

A State‐centred Explanation of the Finance‐Pension Nexus: New Zealand's Pension Reforms as a Typical Case

The Liberal Paradox and the Politics of Asylum in Australia

Wage‐Earners' Welfare after Economic Reform: Refurbishing, Retrenching or Hollowing Out Social Protection in Australia and New Zealand?

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