1: Elin Haugsgjerd Allern and Tim Bale: The Relationship between
Left-of-Centre Parties and Trade Unions
2: Elin Haugsgjerd Allern, Tim Bale, and Simon Otjes: Mapping
Party-Trade Union Relationships in Contemporary Democracies
3: Phil Larkin and Charles Lees: The Australian Labor Party and the
Trade Unions: 'til Death Do Us Part'?
4: Kurt Richard Luther: A Dying Embrace? Interlocked Party-union
Directorates in Austria's Cartel Democracy
5: Tapio Raunio and Niko Laine: Finland: Strong Party-union Links
under Challenge
6: Nick Parsons: Left-wing Parties and Trade Unions in France
7: Tim Spier: Growing Apart? Trade Unions and Centre-left Parties
in Germany
8: Ronen Mandelkern and Gideon Rahat: Parties and Labour
Federations in Israel
9: Liborio Mattina and Mimmo Carrieri: Left-of-Centre Parties and
Trade Unions in Italy: From Party Dominance to a Dialogue of the
Deaf
10: Simon Otjes and Anne Rasmussen: The Legacy of Pillarization:
Trade Union Confederations and Political Parties in the
Netherlands
11: Jenny Jansson: Two Branches of the Same Tree? Party-union Links
in Sweden in the 21st Century
12: Roland Erne and Sebastian Schief: Strong Ties between
Independent Organizations. Unions and Political Parties in
Switzerland
13: Paul Webb and Tim Bale: No Place Else To Go: The Labour Party
and the Trade Unions in the UK
14: Christopher Witko: Still So Happy Together? The Relationship
between Labour Unions and the Democratic Party
15: Elin Haugsgjerd Allern, Tim Bale, and Simon Otjes: The
Relationship between Left-of-Centre Parties and Trade unions in
Contemporary Democracies
16: Elin Haugsgjerd Allern, Tim Bale, and Simon Otjes: Variations
in Party-union Relationships: Explanations and Implications
Elin Haugsgjerd Allern is Professor of Political Science at the
University if Oslo. Her work on political parties and interest
groups has appeared in multiple edited volumes and journals and she
is the author of two monographs in English on Norwegian political
parties. Currently, she is the principal investigator on a new
comparative research project on 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.
That cross-national variations exist has in fact been
suggestedelsewhere (Hyman and Gumbrell-McCormick, 2010), butin
Left-of Centre Parties and Trade Unions in the TwentyFirst Century
the editors Allern and Bale, plus a string ofcontributing country
experts, make a solid and creativecontribution to actually show
it.
*Jonas Hinnfors, Party Politics*
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