Kentucky Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship

Project Title

Social or Special Interests: How Unions Influence Spending

Authors

Devon Moffett, Northern Kentucky UniversityFollow

Domain

Social Sciences

Abstract

Unions are in a decades long decline, heading for the point of non-relevance. To better understand what this change will entail, this paper asks: how does union strength affect state spending? Previous research on unions has exhausted the answers to national and congressional effects, so looking at spending on the state and local level will add more clarity to our understanding of union influence. Independent data will be used to test several areas of spending with multivariate regressions. Additionally, pairwise comparisons will test whether union influence differs across areas. It is found that unions have a positive influence on spending independent of the Democratic Party, and do not have even effects across areas of spending.

Mentor Name

Shauna Reilly

Mentor Email

reillys3@nku.edu

Recommended Citation

Moffett, Devon (2021) "Social or Special Interests: How Unions Influence Spending," Kentucky Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship: Vol. 5: Iss. 1, Article 7.
Available at: https://encompass.eku.edu/kjus/vol5/iss1/7