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Left-of-Centre Parties and Trade Unions in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
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Left-of-Centre Parties and Trade Unions in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
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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 more a 'marriage of convenience', it is
widely believed that their relationship helped socialist, social
democratic, and labour parties win power and ensured the working
class achieved huge gains in terms of full employment, the welfare
state and labour market regulation 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. Based on a brand new dataset, including
organizational data 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 left-of-centre parties and unions in twelve different
countries that have been democracies since at least the mid -to
late-1940's. Testing a series of hypotheses on the importance and
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 suggests 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. Traditional partners that still
have fairly strong links with each other seem to have greater
incentives than others to maintain those links. Moreover, it
remains the case that the links between parties and unions matter
in policy terms.
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