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Industrial Concentration, Country Size, and Trade Union Membership

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

John D. Stephens  and
Michael Wallerstein
John D. Stephens
Affiliation:
Northwestern University
Michael Wallerstein
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
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Abstract

In his article, “Union Organization in Advanced Industrial Democracies” in the June 1989 issue of the Review, Michael Wallerstein advocated a model to account for cross-national differences in trade union organization rates. He argued that the size of the labor force provided the most important determinant of variation in union density. In this controversy, John Stephens takes issue with the operationalization of a key variable in Wallerstein's model—industrial infrastructure. Stephens reanalyzes the data using an alternative measure of this variable. His reanalysis supports his claim that in fact, the two variables yield results that are statistically indistinguishable. Wallerstein responds.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 85 , Issue 3 , September 1991 , pp. 941 - 953
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1991

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