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

Waltenburg, Eric N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791452441 ISBN 13: 9780791452448

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2001

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791452441
• ISBN 13: 9780791452448
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152