Elin Haugsgjerd Allern

Head of Department - Institutt for Statsvitenskap
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Background

  • Dr. polit. (PhD, political science) from the University of Oslo (2002-2006)
  • Joined Dep. of Political Science (ISV), University of Oslo (UiO), in 2008, Professor since 2013, Head of Department since 2024.
  • Visiting research fellow, Dep. of Politics and Contemporary European Studies, University of Sussex, spring 2011  
  • Senior researcher, Institute for Social Research (ISF), Oslo, 2006-2008
  • Visiting scholar (doctoral fellow), Dep. of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, USA, spring 2004
  • Research assistant/junior researcher Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR), Oslo, 2000-2002
  • Member of the Editorial Board of Norsk statsvitenskapelig tidsskrift
  • Member of the Steering Committee of the Political Party Database 2023-
  • Member of the "Kuratorium of the Düsseldorf Party Research Institute (PRuF)", University of Düsseldorf
  • Member of the Norwegian Centre for Research Data (NSD) Board of Directors 2013-2022
  • Member of the Board of the Department of Political Science, UiO, 2012-2019. 
  • Coordinator of the department's research methods courses/teaching section 2020-2023.
  • Member of EILIN - a faculty-level network for teaching and learning (the pol sci department's contact person) 2022-2023.
  • Member of the Editorial Board of Acta Politica 2015-2022
  • Co-editor of Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning (‘Journal of Social Science’) 2007-2010

Allern's doctoral thesis was shortlisted for the European Consortium for Political Research's Jean Blondel PhD Prize in 2008. In 2014, Allern received a national "starting grant" from the Research Council of Norway/University of Oslo. For information about her research projects the last ten years, see this webpage. For details regarding education and work experience, see CV. For Google scholar-profile, use this link.

Research interests

  • Political parties and party systems
  • Interest groups
  • Political representation
  • Public policy making
  • Multi-level government
  • Political organizations and democratic theory
  • Text data, interviews, survey
  • Empirical focus on established democracies 

Teaching 

Currently not teaching as Head of Department, except for supervison of PhD students and mentoring of postdocs within fields of interest. 

Tags: Comparative Politics, Democracy, Political parties, Interest groups

Selected publications

Monographs and Edited Volumes 

Special Issues 

  • Allern, Elin H. and Tim Bale (2012, guest eds.): "Political Parties and Interest Groups: Qualifying the Common Wisdom". Special issue of Party Politics, 18 (1).

Journal Articles (Peer-reviewed)

  • Røed, Maiken, Allern, Elin H. & Hansen, Vibeke W. (2023) "Party-Interest Group Ties and Patterns of Influence", Political Studies. First published online: https://doi.org/10.1177/00323217231202596.
  • Allern, Elin H., Vibeke W. Hansen, David Marshall, and Simon Otjes (2023): “Party-interest group ties: The resource exchange model revisited“, European Journal of Political Research, first published online: https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12595
  • Allern, Elin H., Vibeke W. Hansen, Lise Rødland, Maiken Røed, Heike Klüver, Cal Le Gall, David Marshall, Simon Otjes, Thomas Poguntke, Anne Rasmussen, Sabine Saurugger, and Christopher Witko (2022):  “Introducing the Party-Interest Group Relationships in Contemporary Democracies (PAIRDEM) Datasets”, Party Politics, first published online: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F13540688221075591 
  • Allern, Elin H., Heike Klüver, David Marshall, Simon Otjes, Anne Rasmussen and Christopher Witko (2021): "Policy positions, power and interest group-party lobby routines", Journal of European Public Policy, first published online, https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2021.1912148 
  • Allern, Elin H., Simon Otjes, Thomas Poguntke, Vibeke W. Hansen, David Marshall and Sabine Saurugger (2020): "Conceptualizing and measuring party-interest group relationships", Party Politics, first published online, https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1354068820949393   
  • Allern, Elin H., Vibeke W. Hansen, David Marshall, Anne Rasmussen and Paul Webb (2020): "Competition and interaction: Party ties to interest groups in a multidimensional policy space", European Journal of Political Research, first published online, https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12403
  • Allern, Elin H., Vibeke W. Hansen, Simon Otjes, Anne Rasmussen, Maiken Røed and Tim Bale (2019): "All about the Money? A Cross-national Study of Individual Parties Relations with Trade Unions in 12 Western Democracies", Party Politics, first published online, https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068819862143
  • Poguntke,Thomas, Susan E. Scarrow, and Paul D. Webb, with Elin H. Allern, Nicholas Aylott, Ingrid van Biezen, Enrico Calossi, Marina Costa Lobo, William P. Cross, Kris Deschouwer, Zsolt Enyedi, Elodie Fabre, David M. Farrell, Anika Gauja, Eugenio Pizzimenti, Petr Kopecký, Ruud Koole, Wolfgang C. Müller, Karina Kosiara-Pedersen, Gideon Rahat, Aleks Szczerbiak, Emilie van Haute, and Tània Verge (2016): "Party Rules, Party Resources and the Politics of Parliamentary Democracies: How Parties Organize in the 21st Century", Party Politics, 22 (6): 661-78.
  • Allern, Elin. H. and Rune Karlsen (2014):  "A Turn to the Right: The Norwegian Parliamentary Election of September 2013", West European Politics, 37 (3): 653-63.
  • Allern, Elin H., Ann-Helén Bay and Jo Saglie (2013): "The New Politics of the Welfare State? A Case Study of Extra-Parliamentary Party Politics in Norway", European Journal of Social Security, 15 (3): 249-272.
  • Allern Elin H. (2013): "The Contemporary Relationship of ‘New Left’ and ‘New Right’ Parties with Interest Groups: Exceptional or Mainstream? The Case(s) of Norway’s Socialist Left and Progress Party", Scandinavian Political Studies, 36 (1): 67-90.
  • Allern, Elin H. and Jo Saglie (2012): "Inside the Black Box: Parties as Multi-level Organizations in a Unitary State", West European Politics, 35 (5): 947-70.

  • Allern, Elin H. and Tim Bale (2012): "Political Parties and Interest Groups: Disentangling Complex Relationships", Party Politics 18 (1): 7-25.
  • Allern, Elin H. and Tim Bale (2012): "Conclusion: Qualifying the Common Wisdom", Party Politics 18 (1): 99-106.
  • Allern, Elin H. (2010): "The Survival of a Majority Coalition: The Norwegian 2009 Parliamentary Elections”, West European Politics 33 (4): 904–12.
  • Allern, Elin H. and Nicholas Aylott (2009): “Overcoming the Fear of Commitment: Pre-electoral Coalitions in Norway and Sweden”, Acta Politica: 44: 259–85.
  • Allern, Elin H., Nicholas Aylott and Flemming J. Christiansen (2007): “Social Democrats and Trade Unions in Scandinavia: The Decline and Persistence of Institutional Relationships”, European Journal of Political Research 46 (5): 607–35.
  • Allern, Elin H. and Karina Pedersen (2007): “The Impact of Party Organizational Changes on Democracy”, West European Politics 30 (1): 69–92.
  • Allern, Elin H. and Terje Kleven (2002): “Ånden som går? Om utbredelse og utforming av kommunal målstyring i Sverige, Danmark og Norge”, Norsk statsvitenskapelig tidsskrift 18 (3): 195–224.

Chapters in Edited Volumes  (after 2009)

  • Allern, Elin H. (2020): "Political Parties and Interest Groups", chapter in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Interest Groups, Lobbying and Public Affairs, Palgrave Mcmillan, Cham, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-138950  
  • Saglie, Jo og  Allern, Elin H. (2020). Et åpnere partisystem? I Bergh, Johannes; Haugsgjerd, Atle & Karlsen, Rune (Red.), Valg og politikk siden 1945. Velgere, institusjoner og kritiske hendelser i norsk politisk historie. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. 

  • Allern, Elin H. and Vibeke Wøien Hansen (2019): "Organiserte interesser: Hvem har tilgang til partiene?", ch.11 in Allern, Elin H., Jo Saglie and  Øyvind Østerud (eds.): Makt og opposisjon: De politiske partiene som demokratisk paradoks. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.

  • Allern Elin H. and Tània Verge (2017): “Still Connecting with Society? Political Parties’ Formal Links with Social Groups in the 21st century?”, ch. 5 in Poguntke, Thomas, Susan E. Scarrow and Paul D. Webb (eds): Organizing Representation: Political Parties, Participation, and Power. Oxford: Oxford University Press
  • Allern, Elin H. and Tim Bale (2017): "he Relationship Between Left-of-Centre Parties and Trade Unions”, ch. 1 in Allern, Elin H. and Tim Bale (2017, eds): Left-of-centre Parties and Trade Unions in the Twenty-First Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Allern Elin H., Tim Bale, and Simon Otjes (2017a): “Mapping Party-Trade Union Relationships in Contemporary Democracies”, ch. 2 in Allern, Elin H. and Tim Bale (2017, eds): Left-of-centre Parties and Trade Unions in the Twenty-First Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Allern Elin H., Tim Bale, and Simon Otjes (2017b): “The Relationship between Left-of-Centre Parties and Trade Unions in Contemporary Democracies”, ch. 15 in Allern, Elin H. and Tim Bale (2017, eds): Left-of-centre Parties and Trade Unions in the Twenty-First Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Allern Elin H., Tim Bale, and Simon Otjes (2017c): “Variations in Party-Union Relationships: Explanations and Implications”, ch. 16 in Allern, Elin H. and Tim Bale (2017, eds): Left-of-centre Parties and Trade Unions in the Twenty-First Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Allern, Elin H. (2015): ‘Borgerrollen og ulike sosiale grupper 1913-2013’, ch. in Kirsti Strøm Bull (ed.): Borgerrolle og borgrrett. Oslo: Dreyers forlag
  • Allern, Elin Haugsgjerd, Rune Karlsen and Hanne Marthe Narud (2014): “Kvinnerepresentasjon og parlamentariske posisjoner” in Hanne Marthe Narud, Knut Heidar and Tore Grønlie (eds): Stortingets historie 1964-2014. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget.
  • Allern, Elin Haugsgjerd, Rune Karlsen and Hanne Marthe Narud (2014): “En representativ forsamling?” in Hanne Marthe Narud, Knut Heidar and Tore Grønlie (eds): Stortingets historie 1964-2014. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget.
  • Allern, Elin Haugsgjerd, Rune Karlsen and Hanne Marthe Narud (2014): “Stortingets sosiale sammensetning” in Hanne Marthe Narud, Knut Heidar and Tore Grønlie (eds): Stortingets historie 1964-2014. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget.
  • Allern, Elin H. and Rune Karlsen (2013): "Unanimous, by Acclamation? Selecting Party Leadership in Norway", ch. in Cross, William and Jean-Benoit Pilet (eds): The Selection of Political Party Leaders in Contemporary Parliamentary Democracies: A Comparative Study. London: Routledge.
  • Allern, Elin H. (2012): "Appointments to Public Administration in Norway: No Room for Political Paties?", ch. 14 in Kopecký, Petr, Peter Mair and Maria Spirova (eds): Party Patronage and Party Government in European Democracies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Allern, Elin H. and Jo Saglie (2012): ‘Partiene mellom kommune og stat – organisatorisk bindeledd eller «missing link»?’, ch. in Saglie, Jo, Marit Reitan and Eivind Smith (eds): Det norske flernivådemokratiet. Oslo: Abstrakt forlag.
  • Allern, Elin H. (2010): “Parties as Vehicles of Democracy in Norway: Still Working after All These Years?”, ch. 7 in Lawson, Kay (ed.): Political Parties and Democracy: Europe, vol. 2. Westport, Conn. : Praeger.

Pubished reports (working papers and documentation reports)

For a complete list of publications and work-in-progress, see CV.

Published Sep. 21, 2010 1:10 PM - Last modified Feb. 4, 2024 9:29 PM