Left-of-Centre Parties and Trade Unions in the Twenty-First Century

by Allern, Elin Haugsgjerd; Bale, Tim

• ISBN13: 9780198790471
• ISBN10: 0198790473
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-04-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Elin Haugsgjerd Allern, Professor of Political Science, University if Oslo,Tim Bale, Professor of Politics, Queen Mary University of London

Elin Haugsgjerd Allern is Professor of Political Science at the University if Oslo. Allern's doctoral thesis was shortlisted for the European Consortium for Political Research's Jean Blondel PhD Prize in 2008. Her work has appeared in multiple edited volumes and journals and she is the author and co-author of two monographs in English on Norwegian political parties. In 2012, she co-edited a special issue of Party Politics on parties and interest groups. Currently, she is the principal investigator of new comparative research project party-interest group relationships in contemporary democracies.


Tim Bale is Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London where he specialises in party politics in Britain and Europe. He is the author of books on the Conservative and Labour Parties and on European Politics, and writes about politics for several newspapers and comments on current affairs on both television and radio. He is currently directing a project on party membership in the UK.

Table of Contents

1. The Relationship between Left-of-Centre Parties and Trade Unions, Elin Haugsgjerd Allern and Tim Bale
2. Mapping Party-Trade Union Relationships in Contemporary Democracies, Elin Haugsgjerd Allern, Tim Bale, and Simon Otjes
3. The Australian Labor Party and the Trade Unions: 'til Death Do Us Part'?, Phil Larkin and Charles Lees
4. A Dying Embrace? Interlocked Party-union Directorates in Austria's Cartel Democracy, Kurt Richard Luther
5. Finland: Strong Party-union Links under Challenge, Tapio Raunio and Niko Laine
6. Left-wing Parties and Trade Unions in France, Nick Parsons
7. Growing Apart? Trade Unions and Centre-left Parties in Germany, Tim Spier
8. Parties and Labour Federations in Israel, Ronen Mandelkern and Gideon Rahat
9. Left-of-Centre Parties and Trade Unions in Italy: From Party Dominance to a Dialogue of the Deaf, Liborio Mattina and Mimmo Carrieri
10. The Legacy of Pillarization: Trade Union Confederations and Political Parties in the Netherlands, Simon Otjes and Anne Rasmussen
11. Two Branches of the Same Tree? Party-union Links in Sweden in the 21st Century, Jenny Jansson
12. Strong Ties between Independent Organizations. Unions and Political Parties in Switzerland, Roland Erne and Sebastian Schief
13. No Place Else To Go: The Labour Party and the Trade Unions in the UK, Paul Webb and Tim Bale
14. Still So Happy Together? The Relationship between Labour Unions and the Democratic Party, Christopher Witko
15. The Relationship between Left-of-Centre Parties and Trade unions in Contemporary Democracies, Elin Haugsgjerd Allern, Tim Bale, and Simon Otjes
16. Variations in Party-union Relationships: Explanations and Implications, Elin Haugsgjerd Allern, Tim Bale, and Simon Otjes