Choosing Where to Fight

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Choosing Where to Fight
Organized Labor and the Modern Regulatory State, 1948-1987

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Eric N. Waltenburg - Author

Price: $95.00
Hardcover - 152 pages

Release Date: December 2001

ISBN10: 0-7914-5243-3
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-5243-1

Price: $31.95
Paperback - 152 pages

Release Date: December 2001

ISBN10: 0-7914-5244-1
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-5244-8

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Summary

Examines how organized labor has decided where to pursue its interests.

Choosing Where to Fight studies how organized labor decided to strategically locate its energies in national policy making. The idea that organized interests divide their efforts among different institutional settings is well known. Waltenburg, however, systematically uncovers the determinants of how labor has decided to engage in one particular policy making arena over another. He examines labor’s actions between 1948 and 1987 in the National Labor Relations Board, the federal circuit courts, and Congress. Labor’s choice of where to act, he argues, is an instance of rational decision making under risk. The basis of labor’s expectations and preferences for one of these arenas depends on prior experiences and the presence of allies within the particular institution.

“This book addresses a critically important topic that has received scant attention from scholars: in a system of separated powers how do interest groups choose venues in which to pursue their policy goals? It is well-designed, well-written, and makes a significant contribution.” — Eric S. Heberlig, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Eric N. Waltenburg is Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue University. He is the coauthor, with Bill Swinford, of Litigating Federalism: The States Before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. The National Labor Relations Board

3. The Judiciary

4. The Congress

5. Choosing Where to Fight

6. Conclusion

Appendix 1: The Unions

Appendix 2: The Continuing Validity of Democrat Support as a Coalition of Labor's Legislative Success

Notes

Table of Cases and Decisions

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

American Labor History
Public Administration
Political Science

40189/40190(MR/SG/)

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