This article analyses the condition of the labour alliance of the Labour Party and its affiliated unions in the light of a recent typology of union-party links, and of Lewis Minkin's seminal study of the British union-party link. We conclude that, while the link appeared to have stabilized...

This paper examines the feasibility of network governance in the context of the EU's expansion in the Western Balkans. The EU is formally committed to promoting network governance but the realities of enlargement require the creation of effective states, in other words of the primacy of...

Purpose – This paper seeks to investigate the determinants of private medical insurance (PMI) consumption in the UK. Design/methodology/approach – A unique combination of panel data estimators, reduced from equations and instrumental variables, applied to six waves of the British Household...