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Local Union Organization and Law Making in the US Congress

Local Union Organization and Law Making in the US Congress

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Local Union Organization and Law Making in the US Congress

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Full title

Local Union Organization and Law Making in the US Congress

Publisher

Chicago: University of Chicago on behalf of the Southern Political Science Association

Journal title

The Journal of politics, 2018-04, Vol.80 (2), p.539-554

Language

English

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Publisher

Chicago: University of Chicago on behalf of the Southern Political Science Association

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Contents

The political power of labor unions is a contentious issue in the social sciences. Departing from the dominant focus on membership size, we argue that unions’ influence on national law making is based to an important degree on their local organization. We delineate the novel hypothesis that the horizontal concentration of union members within elect...

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Local Union Organization and Law Making in the US Congress

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2098782234

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2098782234

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ISSN

0022-3816

E-ISSN

1468-2508

DOI

10.1086/694546

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