Beyond the Protective State: The Political Economy of Australia's Manufacturing Industry Policy. (book reviews)

One of the interesting paradoxes of the 1980s is that the proponents of market liberalization had their greatest successes precisely where the institutional strength of the state was strongest, and that only states able to assert their autonomy from social groups could actually subject those groups to market pressures. Autonomy begat autonomy. Australia is no exception, and precisely because it remains terra incognita to most U.S. and continental political science this study is a useful addition to the literature on liberalization in the 1980s. However in order to make its subject ...