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Overview

Tim Bale is affiliated with Queen Mary University of London in the United Kingdom and contributes primarily to the field of Social Sciences. Their research mainly focuses on Political Science and International Relations, with additional work in Sociology and Political Science, Communication, and Gender Studies.

Their scholarly work covers a range of topics including:

  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Political and Economic history of UK and US
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • European Union Policy and Governance
  • German legal, social, and political studies
  • Social and Cultural Dynamics

Tim Bale has authored several papers such as:

  • 'Centre-right parties and immigration in an era of politicisation', 2021, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
  • 'The Death of May's Law: Intra- and Inter-Party Value Differences in Britain's Labour and Conservative Parties', 2021, Political Studies
  • 'Leaving the red Tories': Ideology, leaders, and why party members quit', 2020, Party Politics
  • 'Policy, office, votes - and integrity. The British Conservative Party, Brexit, and immigration', 2021, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
  • 'Shopping for a better deal? Party switching among grassroots members in Britain', 2021, Journal of Elections Public Opinion and Parties

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Party Politics
  • Political Insight
  • The Political Quarterly
  • Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
  • Parliamentary Affairs

Tim Bale collaborates frequently with several coauthors, notably:

  • Paul Webb
  • Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser
  • Alan Wager
  • Sam Power

Their book publications are associated with Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press, including titles such as:

  • The Modern British Party System, 2021, Oxford University Press
  • Riding the Populist Wave, 2021, Cambridge University Press

Best Publications

  • If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them? Explaining Social Democratic Responses to the Challenge from the Populist Radical Right in Western Europe

    Tim Bale;Christoffer Green-Pedersen;AndréA Krouwel;Kurt Richard Luther

  • Cinderella and her ugly sisters: the mainstream and extreme right in Europe's bipolarising party systems

    Tim Bale

  • The Conservative Party: From Thatcher to Cameron

    Tim Bale

  • Turning round the telescope: centre-right parties and immigration and integration policy in Europe

    Tim Bale

  • Captives no longer, but servants still? : Contract parliamentarism and the new minority governance in Sweden and New Zealand

    Tim Bale;Torbjörn Bergman

  • Political parties and interest groups Disentangling complex relationships

    Elin H Allern;Tim Bale

  • European Politics: A Comparative Introduction

    Tim Bale

  • Thrown around with abandon? Popular understandings of populism as conveyed by the print media: A UK case study

    Tim Bale;Stijn van Kessel;Paul Taggart

  • The Modern British Party System

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  • Why Do Tories Defect to UKIP? Conservative Party Members and the Temptations of the Populist Radical Right:

    Paul Webb;Tim Bale

  • The radical left in coalition government: Towards a comparative measurement of success and failure

    Richard Dunphy;Tim Bale

  • Who leads and who follows? The symbiotic relationship between UKIP and the Conservatives - and populism and Euroscepticism

    Tim Bale

  • The Conservatives since 1945: The Drivers of Party Change

    Tim Bale

  • Footsoldiers: Political Party Membership in the 21st Century

    Tim Bale;Paul Webb;Monica Poletti

  • Five Year Mission: The Labour Party under Ed Miliband

    Tim Bale

  • In from the cold? Left parties and government involvement since 1989

    Tim Bale;Richard Dunphy

  • Riding the Populist Wave

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  • Between a Soft and a Hard Place? The Conservative Party, Valence Politics and the Need for a New ‘Eurorealism’

    Tim Bale

  • Immigration into the mainstream: Conflicting ideological streams, strategic reasoning and party competition

    Pontus Odmalm;Tim Bale

  • Oh Jeremy Corbyn! Why did Labour Party membership soar after the 2015 general election?:

    Paul Whiteley;Monica Poletti;Paul Webb;Tim Bale

  • Populism as an intra-party phenomenon: The British Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn:

    Jake Watts;Tim Bale

  • The Conservative Party

    Tim Bale;Paul Webb

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Webb
Paul Webb University of Sussex
Paul Taggart
Paul Taggart University of Sussex
Aleks Szczerbiak
Aleks Szczerbiak University of Sussex
André Krouwel
André Krouwel Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Simon Otjes
Simon Otjes Leiden University
Paul Whiteley
Paul Whiteley University of Essex
Anne Rasmussen
Anne Rasmussen King's College London
Jonathan Boston
Jonathan Boston Victoria University of Wellington
Philip Cowley
Philip Cowley Queen Mary University of London
Anand Menon
Anand Menon King's College London

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