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

ISBN-13: 9780198790471 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 424 str.

Elin Haugsgjerd Allern; Tim Bale

Opis

This volume examines and assesses the contemporary relationships between old left-of-centre parties and trade unions in twelve countries that have been democracies since at least the mid- to late-1940s.

Recenzje

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.

O autorze

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.