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Berkman, Michael. and Plutzer, Eric. "School Budgets and Local Teacher's Unions: The Mediating Role of Political" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, Sep 02, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p60544_index.html>

Berkman, M. B. and Plutzer, E. , 2004-09-02 "School Budgets and Local Teacher's Unions: The Mediating Role of Political" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p60544_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Do teachers’ unions cause school districts to spend more than they would in the absence of unions? Is the ability of unions to induce higher spending a consequence of their collective bargaining power, their ability to mobilize resources politically, or some combination of the two? When unions attempt to influence school budgets, do they weaken the linkage between public preferences and policy outcomes? To answer these questions, we explore how union strength, union size, public opinion, and the state-level budgetary environment contribute to local educational spending for a sample of over 9000 unified school districts in 49 states. We find that unions influence local per pupil spending through their political power (membership) and monopoly control of a critical public service (strength). But we also find that much of this power works at the state level – through the aggregation of local resources. In states with more centralized funding systems, unions have an interest in influencing the state legislature and have less to gain by expending resources in local politics. Consistent with that, we find that local unions are most effective in increasing spending where the state role is small and state-level measures of union strength have their largest effects where the state role is large. Finally, while unions lead schools to spend more, we find that they do so largely within the range of preferences of district residents and do not hinder policy responsiveness.

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