During the early- to mid-2010s, there was a dramatic upsurge in conservative legislation restricting labor unions in U.S. states. The sweeping Republican victories at the state level in the 2010 midterm elections certainly enabled this legislative surge, though not all states controlled by conservative governments passed such legislation and there was considerable variation in the number of laws passed among states that did. Understanding the conditions under which restrictive labor laws are passed is important for labor scholarship as well as broader academic debates on corporate power and political influence. Using a longitudinal negative binomial regression analysis, this article evaluates the role of organized business and conservative mobilization on state labor policies between 2011 and 2016. Our findings are consistent with and extend literature emphasizing the growing influence of corporate interests on politics today. At the same time, the authors find little support for explanations emphasizing the economic aftershocks of the Great Recession and public opinion and find no evidence that grassroots pressure impacted state laws.

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美国的保守主义高潮和劳工政策

在 2010 年代初至中期，美国各州限制工会的保守立法急剧增加。共和党在 2010 年中期选举中在州一级的大获全胜无疑促成了这一立法激增，尽管并非所有由保守派政府控制的州都通过了此类立法，而且各州之间通过的法律数量也存在很大差异。了解通过限制性劳动法的条件对于劳工奖学金以及关于公司权力和政治影响力的更广泛的学术辩论很重要。本文使用纵向负二项式回归分析，评估了 2011 年至 2016 年间有组织的企业和保守动员对国家劳动政策的作用。我们的研究结果与强调企业利益对当今政治的影响越来越大的文献一致并有所扩展。同时，作者发现几乎没有支持强调大衰退和公众舆论的经济余震的解释，也没有发现草根压力影响了州法律的证据。