Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

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*