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Item The politics and law of Anglo-American antidiscrimination regimes, 1945-1995(2004) Evans Case, Rhonda Leann; Higley, JohnSince 1945, states have increasingly been called upon to use their power in order to enforce egalitarian norms. The Anglo-American countries have done so through the construction of antidiscrimination regimes. Given their common law foundations, this entailed a complex and politically fraught renegotiation of state-society relations. This dissertation provides an account of the origins and development of antidiscrimination regimes in the Anglo-American countries between 1945 and 1995 and it performs two main analytic tasks. First, it identifies and elaborates the component parts of antidiscrimination regimes, and second, it specifies the political processes through which those component parts change over time. I chart the development of an ideology of antidiscrimination, and through two case studies, I show the conditions under which political elites in Australia and New Zealand institutionalized its core tenets.