cam a22 7 4500 551395176 CHVBK 20201114035649.0 m d cr |n |||||||| 160722t20172017enk sb 001 0 eng d 2016948584 978-0-19-879047-1 0-19-879047-3 (SERSOL)ssj0001833960 (WaSeSS)ssj0001833960 YDXCP eng YDXCP ERASA BDX BTCTA OCLCQ YDX CDX OCLCO OCLCF CHVBK OCLCO IUL DLC WaSeSS rda HD6487.5 .L448 2017 324.2'17'09051 23 Left-of-centre parties and trade unions in the twenty-first century edited by Elin Haugsgjerd Allern and Tim Bale First edition. Oxford Oxford University Press 2017 ©2017 1 online resource (xviii, 379 pages) text txt rdacontent/eng computer c rdamedia/eng online resource cr rdacarrier/eng Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-367) and index. Lizenzbedingungen können den Zugang einschränken. License restrictions may limit access. Both parties and interest groups matter to democracy. Historically, examples of close relationships between the two abound. But perhaps the best known - because it was supposedly the most intimate and politically important - is the relationship between left-of-centre parties and trade unions. Whether rooted in a shared history, culture, and ideology or simply a 'marriage of convenience', the links between them helped socialist, social democratic, and labour parties win power and deliver huge gains to the working class in the post-war period. In recent decades, however, it has been widely argued that the links between left-of-centre parties and trade unions have declined as their collaboration has become less mutually beneficial, not least as a consequence of structural changes in the economy and labour market. This volume interrogates, qualifies, and even challenges that widespread assumption. 0Based on a brand new dataset, including organizational gathered by a cross-national team of experts, it uncovers and explores what turns out to be considerable variation in the strength of contemporary organizational links between parties and unions in twelve different countries that have been democracies since at least the mid- to late-1940s. Testing a series of hypotheses on the importance of on the impact of particular political systems and socio-economic factors, and on the costs and benefits for both parties and unions, detailed qualitative and quantitative analysis reveals that, left-of-centre party-trade union links are stronger where trade unions are larger, denser, and more unified and where parties are less able to rely on the state to finance their organizational activities and electoral campaigns. Moreover, it remains the case that the links between parties and unions still matter in policy terms. 2000-2099 fast Labor unions Political activity History 21st century Labor unions and socialism History 21st century Socialist parties History 21st century Labor unions and socialism (OCoLC)fst01750262 fast Labor unions Political activity (OCoLC)fst00990299 fast Socialist parties (OCoLC)fst01123730 fast Gewerkschaft gnd Die Linke gnd Mitte-Links-Partei gnd Sozialdemokratie gnd History fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 Allern Elin Haugsgjerd editor Bale Tim 1965- editor https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198790471.001.0001/acprof-9780198790471 Uni Bern: Volltext BK020053 XK020053 XK020000 Oxford Scholarship Online Political Science Oxford Scholarship Online E-Books von 360MarcUpdates IDSBB B405 B405 405VT NELB4051808 IDSBB 700 1- Allern Elin Haugsgjerd editor IDSBB 700 1- Bale Tim 1965- editor IDSBB 856 40 https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198790471.001.0001/acprof-9780198790471 Uni Bern: Volltext SWISSBIB 483107158