Doctoral Dissertation Research: Explaining the Mechanisms of Collective Bargaining Legislative Outcomes at the State-Level

拉里·艾萨克安娜·雅各布斯范德比尔特大学今天阶级斗争的一个表现是在过去十年中对工作权(RTW)立法的倡导复兴。仅在2014年，27个州就提出了60项RTW法案，密歇根州(2012)和威斯康星州(2014)RTW法律的通过让许多人质疑，工会组织严重集中的州如何才能通过倒退的劳动法。归根结底，被问到的问题是一个更大的问题，即谁或什么影响了国家制定的政策？在社会学领域，有四种不同的理论试图回答这个普遍问题：(1)多元主义，(2)精英理论，(3)工具主义-马克思主义，(4)国家中心的制度主义。州立法机构中劳工和商业利益之间日益激烈的斗争，为检验四种占主导地位的权力社会学理论的相对优点提供了一个完美的案例。本论文的目的是回答以下问题：(1)是什么因素导致了州立法者的变化？行动？(2)哪些因素决定了拟议中的集体谈判法案在州立法机构的命运？这项研究审查了2011-2012年立法会议期间所有州级集体谈判法案的提出和通过情况。这项分析结合了五个独特的数据集。第一个数据集包括所有州立法机构在2011-2012年立法会议上提出的与集体谈判有关的每一项法案的数据(N=2,068)。第二份是关于2008年和2010年各州选举的财政捐款的数据。第三份是关于2010年人口普查的州和构成特征的信息。第四份包含关于州一级机构差异的数据，如关于否决的规则、多数规则和委员会任命程序的差异。第五个数据集将收集2012年所有州议员的企业业务联系的公开数据。这些数据将被用来研究两个结果：第一，通过使用每个立法者作为一个分析单位，调查者计划解释立法者的变异？法案建议。其次，通过将每个提案作为分析单位，广义有序Logistic回归模型将预测每个法案的结果：(1)提案，(2)一院失败，(2)二院失败，(3)否决，或(4)通过立法。这两种分析都将分析所有四种理论模型。

SES-1602606Larry IsaacAnna JacobsVanderbilt UniversityOne manifestation of class contention today is the revival in advocacy for Right-to-Work (RTW) legislation in the last decade. In 2014 alone, there were 60 proposed RTW bills in 27 states, and the passage of RTW laws in Michigan (2012) and Wisconsin (2014) has led many to question how regressive labor laws could be passed in heavily unionized states. Ultimately the question being asked is embedded in the larger question of who or what influences the policies enacted by the state? Within the field of sociology, there are four distinct theories that attempt to answer this general question: (1) pluralism, (2) elite theory, (3) instrumentalist-Marxism, and (4) state-centered institutionalism. The increasingly heated battle between labor and business interests in state legislatures provides a perfect case for testing the relative merit of four dominant sociological theories of power. The purpose of this dissertation is to answer the following questions: (1) What factors account for the variation in state legislators? actions? (2) What factors account for the fate of proposed collective bargaining bills in state legislatures? This study examines the proposal and passage of all state-level collective bargaining bills during the 2011-2012 legislative session. The analysis combines five unique datasets. The first dataset consists of data on every bill related to collective bargaining proposed among all state legislatures in the 2011-2012 legislative session (N=2,068). The second has data on the financial contributions to state-level elections in 2008 and 2010. The third has information on state and constituent characteristics from the 2010 census. The fourth contains data on state level institutional differences, such as differences in rules about vetoing, majority rule, and committee appointment procedures. The fifth dataset will collect publicly available data on the corporate business ties of all state legislators in 2012. These data will be used to study two outcomes: First, by using each legislator as a unit of analysis, the investigator plans to explain variation in legislators? bill proposals. Second, by using each proposed bill as the unit of analysis, generalized ordered logistic regression models will predict the outcome of each bill: (1) proposed, (2) failed in first chamber, (2) failed in second chamber, (3) vetoed, or (4) passed into legislation. Both analyses will analyze all four theoretical models.