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Dr Kate Nicholls
Lecturer in Political Science
Phone: +64 9 921 9999
Email: knicholl@aut,ac.nz
Physical Address:
Room 1408 - Level 14 AUT Tower (WT Building), corner Rutland and Wakefield Streets Auckland City.
Postal Address:
Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Applied Humanities, AUT University
Private Bag 92006, Auckland 1142
Qualifications:
- PhD in Political Science, University of Notre Dame (Indiana)
- Master of Arts in Political Studies, University of Auckland
- Bachelor of Arts in Political Studies and History, University of Auckland.
Memberships and Affiliations:
American Political Science AssociationTeaching Areas:
Comparative politics, political sociology, and political theory.
Research areas:
- Comparative political economy
- Democratisation
- Corporatism and labour relations
- Theories of the modern capitalist state
- Interface between state and civil society
- The impact of European integration on peripheral EU member states
- Australasian politics
- The economic and social developmental strategies of small countries.
Research Summary:
My research interests are in comparative politics, especially comparative political economy and transitions to political democracy, and the relationship between these two themes.
I am especially interested in the role of interest groups in policy-making, and the way that states seek to control, manipulate, and otherwise use the participation of interest groups to their own advantage.
My research tends to driven by general questions rather than specific case studies, but I have written and continue to write about Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Portugal, Greece, and the Southern Cone of Latin America.
Current Research Projects:
Between State and Society: Mediating Policy in Greece, Ireland, and Portugal.
- “Not All PIGS Are Created Equal: Responses to Labour Market Challenges in Greece, Ireland, and Portugal”
- “Authoritarian and Transitional Legacies: Explaining Greece’s 2010 Economic Crisis”
“Varieties of Capitalism Downunder: New Zealand Before and After the Market Shift”
Publications:
- “Ideological Aspects of Hegemonic Projects: Latin American Civil Society and Cultural Values in Comparative Perspective”, JILAS- Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 5, N.2 (December 1999).
- Labour Politics in Small Open Democracies: Australia, Chile, Ireland, New Zealand and Uruguay (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). With Paul G. Buchanan.
- “Labour Politics and Democratisation in South Korea and Taiwan”, Government and Opposition 38, N.2, (Spring 2003). With Paul Buchanan.
- “Parliamentary Government” in International Encyclopedia of Political Science. (CQ Press/American Political Science Association 2010).
- “The Europeanization of Irish Public Policy: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives”, in Paul Donnelly, John Hogan, and Brendan O’Rourke (eds.), Business and Politics in Ireland (Dublin: Oak Tree Press, 2010).
- “Where Dragons Falter: Labor Politics and the Democratisation of Civil Society in South Korea and Taiwan”, in Yochiro Sato (ed.), Growth and Governance in Asia (Honolulu: Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, 2004): 59-86. With Paul G. Buchanan.
- “Why Social Partnership Matters: Irish Policies for Work-Life Balance”, West European Politics 29, N.3 (May 2006).
- “Why was there no General Strike in 1991? Corporatism, Pluralism, and Neoliberal Labour Relations in New Zealand”, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics 40, N.1 (March 2002).
Awards:
European Union Studies Association (United States) Haas Fund Award.Last updated: 13 Jun 2011 4:15pm