Professor Tim Bale

Professor of Politics / School of Politics and International Relations
Profile
As well as being Professor of Politics in SPIR, Tim is also Co-Director of QM's Mile End Institute and Deputy Director of the think-tank UK in a Changing Europe. Tim works on all aspects of party politics in Britain, Europe and sometimes further afield. He has recently finished a project on party members, funded by the ESRC and is currently working on two comparative projects on the centre-right in Europe, with a special focus on its interaction with the radical right and on its handling of immigration.
Research
Research Interests:
- Political Parties
- Party members
- Politics of Immigration
Publications
Bale, Tim (2017) European Politics: a Comparative Introduction (Palgrave Macmillan).
Odmalm, Pontus and Bale, Tim (2015) 'Immigration into the mainstream: Conflicting ideological streams, strategic reasoning and party competition', Acta Politica, 50 (4), pp. 365–378
Hampshire, James and Bale, Tim (2014): New Administration, New Immigration Regime: Do Parties Matter After All? A UK Case Study, West European Politics, 38(1), 145-166.
Bale, Tim (2013) ‘Concede and move on? One Nation Labour and the Welfare State’, Political Quarterly, 84 (3).
Bale, Tim and Krouwel, André (2013) ‘Down but Not Out: A Comparison of Germany's CDU/CSU with Christian Democratic Parties in Austria, Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands’, German Politics, 22 (1-2), pp. 16-45.