How Policies Make Interest Groups
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-82090-3 (ISBN)
As most American labor organizations struggle for survival and relevance in the twenty-first century, teachers unions appear to be an exception. Despite being all but nonexistent until the 1960s, these unions are maintaining members, assets—and political influence. As the COVID-19 epidemic has illustrated, today’s teachers unions are something greater than mere labor organizations: they are primary influencers of American education policy. How Policies Make Interest Groups examines the rise of these unions to their current place of influence in American politics.
Michael Hartney details how state and local governments adopted a new system of labor relations that subsidized—and in turn, strengthened—the power of teachers unions as interest groups in American politics. In doing so, governments created a force in American politics: an entrenched, subsidized machine for membership recruitment, political fundraising, and electoral mobilization efforts that have informed elections and policymaking ever since. Backed by original quantitative research from across the American educational landscape, Hartney shows how American education policymaking and labor relations have combined to create some of the very voter blocs to which it currently answers. How Policies Make Interest Groups is trenchant, essential reading for anyone seeking to understand why some voices in American politics mean more than others.
Michael T. Hartney is assistant professor of political science at Boston College. His work has been published in American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and Perspectives on Politics and received media coverage in the Economist, New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal.
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Chapter 1. Governments, Teachers Unions, and Education Policy
Chapter 2. Meetings, Mailboxes, and Mobilization
Chapter 3. Turning Out Teachers
Chapter 4. Creatures of the State
Chapter 5. Members, Money, and Maintenance
Chapter 6. Teachers Unions in State Politics
Chapter 7. Teachers Unions in Local Politics
Chapter 8. Teacher-Union Power and Student Achievement
Chapter 9. The Resilience of Teachers Unions
Chapter 10. The Scorecard: Unions versus Reformers
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.08.2022 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 41 line drawings, 28 tables |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-226-82090-4 / 0226820904 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-82090-3 / 9780226820903 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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