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Michael T. Hartney

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Hartney, Michael T., 'Members, Money, and Maintenance', How Policies Make Interest Groups: Governments, Unions, and American Education (Chicago, IL, 2022; online edn, Chicago Scholarship Online, 18 May 2023), https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226820897.003.0005, accessed 8 July 2024.

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Hartney, Michael T.. "Members, Money, and Maintenance." In How Policies Make Interest Groups: Governments, Unions, and American Education University of Chicago Press, 2022. Chicago Scholarship Online, 2023. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226820897.003.0005.

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Politics is ultimately a contest that hinges on the strength of organized groups. Education is no different. Teachers are influential because—far more than any other education interest group—they are represented by a massive federated interest group that is capable of coordinating political action in fifty states and thousands of local school districts. Yet teachers were only able to build that kind of organizational strength because of state patronage. Chapter 5 provides evidence for these claims by empirically examining the rise of the most powerful interest group in American education: the National Education Association (NEA). Drawing on both qualitative and quantitative data from the NEA’s archives, it shows how government policies helped the NEA secure the three resources interest groups covet most: members, money, and organizational maintenance.

Keywords: interest groups, patron support, resource mobilization, union membership density, collective action problem, collective bargaining laws, governmental subsidy, union security, policy feedback

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