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  1. Book Review: of Riley-Smith and of Wheatcroft

    Article • Party Politics, June 2024, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tim Bale

  2. Book review: Data-driven campaigning and political parties: Five advanced democracies compared

    Article • Party Politics, April 2024, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tim Bale

  3. Book review: The 1922 Committee: Power Behind the Scenes

    Article • Party Politics, November 2023, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tim Bale

  4. Book Review: Review of the art of the impossible: How to start a political party (and why you probably Shouldn’t)

    Article • Party Politics, October 2023, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tim Bale

  5. In power but not in office: how radical right ‘outsiders’ can influence their mainstream rivals – the UK and Australian cases

    Article • Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, April 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tim Bale

  6. The Modern British Party System

    Article • September 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Tim Bale

  7. Shopping for a better deal? Party switching among grassroots members in Britain

    Article • Journal of Elections Public Opinion and Parties, June 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tim Bale

  8. Les jeux sont faits, rien ne va plus ? Has the Tory Party Finally Chosen between Europe and America?

    Article • The Political Quarterly, May 2021, Wiley

    Professor Tim Bale

  9. Ploughed under? Labour's Grassroots post‐Corbyn

    Article • The Political Quarterly, March 2021, Wiley

    Professor Tim Bale

  10. The Death of May’s Law: Intra- and Inter-Party Value Differences in Britain’s Labour and Conservative Parties

    Article • Political Studies, March 2021, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tim Bale

  11. Policy, office, votes – and integrity. The British Conservative Party, Brexit, and immigration

    Article • Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, February 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tim Bale

  12. Centre-right parties and immigration in an era of politicisation

    Article • Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, February 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tim Bale

  13. ‘Leaving the red Tories’: Ideology, leaders, and why party members quit

    Article • Party Politics, September 2020, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tim Bale

  14. ‘Mistake overturned, so I call it a lesson learned’:1 The Conservatives

    Article • Parliamentary Affairs, September 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Tim Bale

  15. Footsoldiers: Political Party Membership in the 21st Century

    Article • July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tim Bale

  16. All about the money? A cross-national study of parties’ relations with trade unions in 12 western democracies

    Article • Party Politics, July 2019, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tim Bale

  17. Sacred Cows and Common Sense

    Article • May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tim Bale

  18. Social networkers and careerists: Explaining high-intensity activism among British party members

    Article • International Political Science Review, March 2019, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tim Bale

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

    Article • The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, December 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tim Bale

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

    Article • The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, October 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tim Bale

  21. Why do only some people who support parties actually join them? Evidence from Britain

    Article • West European Politics, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tim Bale

  22. Participating Locally and Nationally: Explaining the Offline and Online Activism of British Party Members

    Article • Political Studies, September 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tim Bale

  23. ‘We Didn’t See it Coming’:1 The Conservatives

    Article • Parliamentary Affairs, March 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Tim Bale

  24. The relationship between the Conservatives and UKIP

    Article • Politics, February 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tim Bale

  25. Change-and Scepticism-as a Constant: Anthony King on Parties and Party Systems

    Article • The Political Quarterly, December 2017, Wiley

    Professor Tim Bale

  26. Explaining the Absence of Christian Democracy in Contemporary Poland

    Article • November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tim Bale

  27. So who really does the donkey work in ‘multi-speed membership parties’? Comparing the election campaign activity of party members and party supporters

    Article • Electoral Studies, April 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Tim Bale

  28. ‘All mouth and no trousers?’ How many Conservative Party members voted for UKIP in 2015 – and why did they do so?

    Article • Politics, March 2017, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tim Bale

  29. Left-of-Centre Parties and Trade Unions in the Twenty-First Century

    Article • February 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Tim Bale

  30. No Place Else To Go

    Article • February 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Tim Bale

  31. Variations in Party–Union Relationships

    Article • February 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Tim Bale

  32. European Politics

    Article • January 2017, Nature

    Professor Tim Bale

  33. The evolving Conservative Party membership

    Article • December 2016, Manchester University Press

    Professor Tim Bale

  34. The evolving Conservative Party membership

    Article • November 2016, Manchester University Press

    Professor Tim Bale

  35. 'The Corbyn Problem and the Future of Labour

    Article • Political Insight, November 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tim Bale

  36. The oratory of David Cameron

    Article • May 2016, Manchester University Press

    Professor Tim Bale

  37. Britain’s Experience of Coalition Government: Continuity and Change

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tim Bale

  38. The Loser Takes It All. Labour and Jeremy Corbyn: A Response to Steve Richards

    Article • The Political Quarterly, January 2016, Wiley

    Professor Tim Bale

  39. The End of the Affair

    Article • November 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Tim Bale

  40. The Conservatives: Their Sweetest Victory?

    Article • Parliamentary Affairs, September 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Tim Bale

  41. Immigration and asylum policy under Cameron’s Conservatives

    Article • British Politics, April 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tim Bale

  42. Survival on the outside: Assessing Labour in opposition, 2010-2015

    Article • Juncture, March 2015, Wiley

    Professor Tim Bale

  43. In life as in death? Margaret Thatcher (mis)remembered

    Article • British Politics, February 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tim Bale

  44. Reply

    Article • Global Discourse, January 2015, Policy Press

    Professor Tim Bale

  45. European Politics

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tim Bale

  46. Immigration and Housing

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tim Bale

  47. When Second-Best is Still a No-Brainer: Why Labour Should Shoot for a Majority Coalition in May 2015

    Article • The Political Quarterly, January 2015, Wiley

    Professor Tim Bale

  48. Not as Bad as We Feared or Even Worse Than We Imagined? Assessing and Explaining Conservative Party Members’ Views on Coalition

    Article • Political Studies, September 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tim Bale

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

    Article • Acta Politica, August 2014, Nature

    Professor Tim Bale

  50. New Administration, New Immigration Regime: Do Parties Matter After All? A UK Case Study

    Article • West European Politics, August 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tim Bale

  51. If Opposition is an Art, is Ed Miliband an Artist? A Framework for Evaluating Leaders of the Opposition

    Article • Parliamentary Affairs, July 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Tim Bale

  52. Putting it Right? The Labour Party's Big Shift on Immigration Since 2010

    Article • The Political Quarterly, July 2014, Wiley

    Professor Tim Bale

  53. Why mainstream parties change policy on migration: A UK case study – The Conservative Party, immigration and asylum, 1960–2010

    Article • Comparative European Politics, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tim Bale

  54. And it’s good night Vienna. How (not) to deal with the populist radical right: The Conservatives, UKIP and some lessons from the heartland

    Article • British Politics, May 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tim Bale

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

    Article • Political Studies, April 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tim Bale

  56. The United Kingdom Independence Party: Insurgency or Splinter?

    Article • January 2014, Nomos Verlag

    Professor Tim Bale

  57. Immigration and Integration Policy in Europe

    Article • October 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tim Bale

  58. Concede and Move On? One Nation Labour and the Welfare State

    Article • The Political Quarterly, October 2013, Wiley

    Professor Tim Bale

  59. What the modernisers did next: From opposition to government - and beyond

    Article • Juncture, September 2013, Wiley

    Professor Tim Bale

  60. Down but Not Out: A Comparison of Germany's CDU/CSU with Christian Democratic Parties in Austria, Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands

    Article • German Politics, June 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tim Bale

  61. More and More Restrictive—But Not Always Populist: Explaining Variation in the British Conservative Party's Stance on Immigration and Asylum

    Article • Journal of Contemporary European Studies, March 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tim Bale

  62. Modernisierung in kleinen Schritten?

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tim Bale

  63. The Conservatives since 1945: The Drivers of Party Change

    Article • September 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Tim Bale

  64. The Tories' Ten Commandments

    Article • Soundings, July 2012, Lawrence and Wishart

    Professor Tim Bale

  65. Whither the Tory left?: The demise of progressive Conservatism

    Article • Public Policy Research, May 2012, Wiley

    Professor Tim Bale

  66. Supplying the Insatiable Demand: Europe's Populist Radical Right

    Article • Government and Opposition, January 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tim Bale

  67. David Cameron, 2005–10

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tim Bale

  68. Political parties and interest groups

    Article • Party Politics, December 2011, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tim Bale

  69. Conclusion

    Article • Party Politics, December 2011, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tim Bale

  70. The Black Widow Effect: Why Britain's Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition Might Have an Unhappy Ending

    Article • Parliamentary Affairs, November 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Tim Bale

  71. Having One's Cake and Eating It Too: Cameron's Conservatives and Immigration

    Article • The Political Quarterly, July 2011, Wiley

    Professor Tim Bale

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

    Article • Party Politics, June 2011, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tim Bale

  73. Fresh start or false promise? Lessons from Tory policy reviews

    Article • Public Policy Research, June 2011, Wiley

    Professor Tim Bale

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

    Article • Comparative European Politics, May 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tim Bale

  75. I don't Agree with Nick: Retrodicting the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition

    Article • The Political Quarterly, April 2011, Wiley

    Professor Tim Bale

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

    Article • Acta Politica, March 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tim Bale

  77. Divided in Victory? The Conservatives and the Republicans

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tim Bale

  78. Political data in 2009

    Article • European Journal of Political Research, November 2010, Wiley

    Professor Tim Bale

  79. ‘May Contain Nuts’? The Reality behind the Rhetoric Surrounding the British Conservatives' New Group in the European Parliament

    Article • The Political Quarterly, March 2010, Wiley

    Professor Tim Bale

  80. Political data in 2008

    Article • European Journal of Political Research, December 2009, Wiley

    Professor Tim Bale

  81. If you can't Beat them, Join them? Explaining Social Democratic Responses to the Challenge from the Populist Radical Right in Western Europe

    Article • Political Studies, June 2009, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tim Bale

  82. ‘Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Dave’: How Far is the Conservative Party's Revival All Down to David Cameron?

    Article • The Political Quarterly, April 2009, Wiley

    Professor Tim Bale

  83. The Conservatives: Trounced, Transfixed — and Transformed?

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tim Bale

  84. Political data in 2007

    Article • European Journal of Political Research, December 2008, Wiley

    Professor Tim Bale

  85. ‘A Bit Less Bunny-Hugging and a Bit More Bunny-Boiling’? Qualifying Conservative Party Change under David Cameron

    Article • British Politics, August 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tim Bale

  86. Why Is There No Christian Democracy in Poland — and Why Should We Care?

    Article • Party Politics, July 2008, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tim Bale

  87. Politics matters: a conclusion

    Article • Journal of European Public Policy, April 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tim Bale

  88. Turning round the telescope. Centre-right parties and immigration and integration policy in Europe1

    Article • Journal of European Public Policy, April 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tim Bale

  89. Political data in 2006

    Article • European Journal of Political Research, December 2007, Wiley

    Professor Tim Bale

  90. Book Review: Simon Lightfoot, Europeanizing Social Democracy? The Rise of the Party of European Socialists. London: Routledge. 2005. £65.00 (hbk), xiv + 177 pp. ISBN 0 415 34803 X

    Article • Party Politics, July 2007, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tim Bale

  91. Red Flag Still Flying?

    Article • Party Politics, May 2007, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tim Bale

  92. Britain and Europe: A Pause for Reflection?

    Article • January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tim Bale

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

    Article • Parliamentary Affairs, May 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Tim Bale

  94. PR Man? Cameron's Conservatives and the Symbolic Politics of Electoral Reform

    Article • The Political Quarterly, May 2006, Wiley

    Professor Tim Bale

  95. You Can't Always Get What You Want: Populism and the Power Inquiry

    Article • The Political Quarterly, April 2006, Wiley

    Professor Tim Bale

  96. A Taste of Honey Is Worse Than None at All?

    Article • Party Politics, March 2006, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tim Bale

  97. ‘All poke and no soak?’: interpreting the labour party

    Article • History of the Human Sciences, February 2006, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tim Bale

  98. Britain and Europe: Less of the Poison?

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tim Bale

  99. Captives No Longer, but Servants Still? Contract Parliamentarism and the New Minority Governance in Sweden and New Zealand

    Article • Government and Opposition, January 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tim Bale

  100. ‘Natural because it had become just that.’ Path dependence in pre-electoral pacts and government formation: A New Zealand case study

    Article • Australian Journal of Political Science, December 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tim Bale

  101. ‘It's Labour, but Not as we Know it.’ Media Lesson-Drawing and the Disciplining of Social Democracy: A Case Study

    Article • The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, August 2005, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tim Bale

  102. The Impact of Proportional Representation on Government Effectiveness: The New Zealand Experience

    Article • Australian Journal of Public Administration, December 2003, Wiley

    Professor Tim Bale

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

    Article • West European Politics, July 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tim Bale

  104. New Labour in Power

    Article • September 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tim Bale

  105. Is the Grass Really Greener?

    Article • Party Politics, May 2002, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tim Bale

  106. Restricting the broadcast and publication of pre‐election and exit polls: some selected examples

    Article • Representation, March 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tim Bale

  107. New Labour: New Christian Democracy?

    Article • The Political Quarterly, January 2002, Wiley

    Professor Tim Bale

  108. The Symbolic Agenda of a British Satellite Broadcaster's 1997 General Election Coverage

    Article • Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, September 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tim Bale

  109. Crimes and Misdemeanours: Managing Dissent in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Labour Party

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tim Bale

  110. Managing Sleaze

    Article • European Journal of Communication, December 1999, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tim Bale

  111. Can young pups teach an old Dog new tricks? Lessons for British reformers from eastern Europe's new constitutional democracies

    Article • Journal of Legislative Studies, June 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tim Bale

  112. Towards a ‘cultural theory’ of parliamentary party groups

    Article • Journal of Legislative Studies, December 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tim Bale

  113. ‘The death of the past’: Symbolic politics and the changing of clause IV

    Article • British Elections and Parties Yearbook, January 1996, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tim Bale

  114. Immigration Policy

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tim Bale

  115. BROAD CHURCHES, BIG THEORY AND ONE SMALL EXAMPLE

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tim Bale

  116. The Conservative Party

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Professor Tim Bale