Union Membership and Political Participation in the United States

Kerrissey, Jasmine; Schofer, Evan

doi:10.1093/sf/sos187

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“…Prior scholarship finds that living in the political south is also associated with lower levels of civic participation (Putnam 1995(Putnam , 2000Gomez and Gunderson 2003). Additionally, union membership increases civic participation, since unions provide social connections and civic opportunities (Kerrissey and Schofer 2013;Putnam 2000;Zullo 2013). Meanwhile, white individuals are much more likely to volunteer or participate in political activities than African-Americans and self-identified…”

Section: Potential Confounding Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Doing Less with More: Cohorts, Education, and Civic Participation in America

Horowitz

2015

Social Forces

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Doing Less with More: Cohorts, Education, and Civic Participation in America

Horowitz

2015

Social Forces

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“…He finds that the union vote premium is largest (approximately 11%) among those without a high school diploma, declining to 4% among those with a college degree. Kerrissey & Schofer (2013), although not distinguishing between public and private sectors, find a similar pattern: The strongest association between union membership and political participation is found among lower-SES individuals. Private sector unionism is strongly associated with increased participation among those least likely to participate otherwise.…”

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Labor Unions, Political Representation, and Economic Inequality

Ahlquist

2017

Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci.

112

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Decades of research across several disciplines have produced substantial evidence that labor unions, on balance, reduce economic disparities. But unions are complicated, multifaceted organizations straddling markets and politics. Much of their equality-promoting influence occurs through their ability to reduce class-based inequity in politics and public policy. Declining unionization across much of the developed world is eroding workers' bargaining power. Reduced economic leverage puts pressure on union solidarity and weakens labor-based political movements. Important research design problems and significant heterogeneity across unions, regions, countries, and time imply a continued need for more work.

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“…Zullo 2011). Moreover, recent research suggests that union membership is likely to affect political participation but not necessarily charitable engagement (Kerrissey and Schofer 2013). Using a rich panel dataset, we were able to address causality more efficiently and, thus, to provide new solid evidence that union membership generates civic engagement in the form of charitable behavior.…”

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“…Bryson et al 2014;Freeman 2003;Lamare 2010a, b;Sojourner 2013). Second, recent evidence shows that 5 although union members are more likely to join community organizations, they are not necessarily giving more time or money to these organizations (Kerrissey and Schofer 2013). This suggests that the relationship between union membership and charitable giving is still not sufficiently understood.…”

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Union Membership and Charitable Giving in the United States

Booth¹,

Lup²,

Williams

2016

ILR Review

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Using panel data for the United States 2001 – 2011, the authors examine general differences in charitable giving between union members, free-riders, and the non-unionized. Results indicate that union members are more likely to give and to give more to charity relative to the non-unionized, whereas free-riders are the least generous. Similar effects are found when examining joining a union or becoming a free-rider: joining a union positively affects charitable giving, while moving into free-riding makes individuals' behavior less charitable. Evidence also suggests that the positive effect of union membership on giving does not diminish over time. Taken together, these results provide new solid evidence that union membership generates civic engagement in the form of charitable behavior, but also suggest the need to further investigate the civic behavior of free-riders

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Union Membership and Political Participation in the United States

Cited by 82 publications

References 26 publications

Doing Less with More: Cohorts, Education, and Civic Participation in America

Doing Less with More: Cohorts, Education, and Civic Participation in America

Labor Unions, Political Representation, and Economic Inequality

Union Membership and Charitable Giving in the United States

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