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Revisiting General and Specific Union Beliefs: The Union‐Voting Intentions of Professionals
Author(s) -
PARK HEEJOON,
MCHUGH PATRICK P.,
BODAH MATTHEW M.
Publication year - 2006
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.2006.00426.x
Subject(s) - voting , social psychology , psychology , structural equation modeling , political science , mathematics , statistics , law , politics
We examine how general and specific beliefs about unions influence the union‐voting intentions of professional employees. Previous research, mainly on nonprofessionals, has found that both beliefs are significant in predicting voting behavior, but that specific beliefs have the stronger effect. Using a structural equation model, we found a causal relationship between general and specific beliefs, and that the total effect of general beliefs is nearly three times as strong as that of specific beliefs.