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Correlates of State Public Employee Bargaining Laws
Author(s) -
KOCHAN THOMAS A.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-232x.1973.tb00858.x
Subject(s) - industrial relations , citation , state (computer science) , collective bargaining , sociology , management , law , law and economics , political science , library science , computer science , economics , algorithm
IN RECENT YEARS the rapid growth of collective bargaining in public employment has raised policy issues in the public sector to the center of attention in the industrial relations literature. Most research in this area, however, has consisted of qualitative discussions of potential and actual consequences of various policy options. In comparison, there have been few attempts to systematically examine the relationships between public sector policies in the 50 states and the respective milieus in which they were developed. This paper describes an attempt to analyze public sector legislation quantitatively by developing an index of public policy and then relating it to a number of environmmtal characteristics in each of the states.l The overall conclusion is that roughly one-third of the variance in state public sector laws can be accounted for by the environmental characteristics observed.