Left-Of-Centre Parties and Trade Unions in the Twenty-First Century Tapa dura - 2017

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.