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This paper examines the impact of organized labor in elections particularly in the 1990s. The central finding is that labor has managed to maintain a high degree of influence in elections by maximizing the voter turnout of union members and their households through grassroots political mobilization. Even though union density in the workforce has declined, labor remains a potent electoral force because the turnout of union members and their households has gone up while turnout in the general electorate has gone down. Union households represented 26 percent of the electorate in 1980 when union members were 22 percent of the workforce. By the 2000 elections union density had declined considerably to 14 percent of the workforce but union households again represented 26 percent of the electorate. The paper examines why voter turnout among union households declined in the early nineties, particularly in 1994 when union households were a record low 14 percent of the electorate and the Republicans took control of Congress, and why it has increased in subsequent elections including the mobilization efforts of the newly revitalized AFL-CIO leadership. |
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| Roof, Tracy. "The Continuing Influence of Organized Labor in American Elections" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, Aug 28, 2002 <Not Available>. 2009-05-27 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p66217_index.html> |
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| Roof, T. , 2002-08-28 "The Continuing Influence of Organized Labor in American Elections" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-27 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p66217_index.html |
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Abstract: This paper examines the impact of organized labor in elections particularly in the 1990s. The central finding is that labor has managed to maintain a high degree of influence in elections by maximizing the voter turnout of union members and their households through grassroots political mobilization. Even though union density in the workforce has declined, labor remains a potent electoral force because the turnout of union members and their households has gone up while turnout in the general electorate has gone down. Union households represented 26 percent of the electorate in 1980 when union members were 22 percent of the workforce. By the 2000 elections union density had declined considerably to 14 percent of the workforce but union households again represented 26 percent of the electorate. The paper examines why voter turnout among union households declined in the early nineties, particularly in 1994 when union households were a record low 14 percent of the electorate and the Republicans took control of Congress, and why it has increased in subsequent elections including the mobilization efforts of the newly revitalized AFL-CIO leadership. |
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| 381 THE CONTINUING IMPACT OF LABOR IN ELECTIONS "We are always conscious of the fact that we are a minority but we are a minority which can provide the winning margin when there is not a real tide in the other direction." 1 Al Barkan Director of the AFLCIO's Committee on Political Education following 1966 elections Perhaps no other political event in the postWorld War II period better illustrates one of the central arguments of this thesis |
| 2001. 57 Ibid. 426 It is not clear why Gore was not "more victorious" but it is clear that the 2000 election and the last two election cycles of the nineties demonstrate the continuing power if not the dominance of organized labor in elections. Labor cannot dictate the outcome but it can certainly have a great deal of effect on the vote. Given increasingly low levels of voter turnout and political disaffection among the general population groups that can |
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