• DOI:10.1007/s11109-020-09624-3
Corpus ID: 220512676

Labor Unions and White Democratic Partisanship

@article{Macdonald2020LaborUA,
  title={Labor Unions and White Democratic Partisanship},
  author={D. Macdonald},
  journal={Political Behavior},
  year={2020},
  pages={1-21}
}

D. Macdonald

Published 2020

Political Science

Political Behavior

The Democratic Party’s declining support among white voters is a defining feature of contemporary American politics. Extant research has emphasized factors such as elite polarization and demographic change but has overlooked another important trend, the decades-long decline of labor union membership. This oversight is surprising, given organized labor’s long ties to the Democratic Party. I argue that the concurrent decline of union membership and white support for the Democratic Party is not… CONTINUE READING

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