[lbo-talk] union money

[Michael Hoover]

>>> dhenwood at panix.com 02/14/06 11:43 AM >>>
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>To rule out the spuriousness of the second kind, you need a longitudinal
>panel data for individuals to show what comes first, union membership or
>voting Democratic.  Such data may not be available for individual elections,
>but they surely must exist for general party preference.  This is not really
>my field so I do not know what data are available, but can somebody with
>expertise in that field shed more light on this subject?

A data geek could work with the National Election Studies 
<http://www.umich.edu/~nes/>. They're the best we've got, and they go 
back a long way.
Doug
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nes dates to '48, prior to that there is some gallup election data going back to 36
which includes union member - divided into afl & cio - votes for dem & rep prez
candidates, nes surveys ask about union households vote choice, not union 
member vote choice, and nothing re. union member/race/vote choice combo (i've 
been working with nes stuff since early '70s undergrad days)...

i've never seen any data from any longitudinal survey research that begins to get at
questions that yoshie asked (to which my previous post in this thread - indicating
absence of availability of such data - was a response)...   mh...