Labor law rules function as tools for partisan entrenchment

Evidence

Labor law continues to serve this electoral entrenchment function in contemporary politics. As we noted at the outset, because unions are critical institutional supporters of the contemporary Democratic Party, undermining the efficacy of labor unions is a well-understood means by which incumbent Republican leaders can increase their reelection prospects. Recall the recent effort by Wisconsin Republicans to suppress opposition by amending the state’s labor laws to restrict the collective bargaining rights of public employees and to prohibit public unions from collecting dues through payroll deductions. — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 241

Categorization

• QUESTION: Note the frame flips here: the author of this section treats anti-union law as Republican entrenchment, while Levinson-Sachs’s own thesis is about labor law as Democratic entrenchment — worth checking whose side the book ultimately locates the entrenchment motivation on.
• XREF: connects to: Restrictive labor laws entrench party advantage without any formal rule change. — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 14; Electoral rules have long served partisan entrenchment across American history — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 83; Parties entrench themselves by writing the rules of party structure and ballot access — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 90 (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Political entrenchment operates through informal and coercive means, not only formal legal rules #expands (0.80) — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 48
• Unemployment functioned as a deliberate political weapon to weaken labor #exemplifies (0.79) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 994
• Functional political entrenchment works without changing formal legal rules #expands (0.78) — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 173
• Trade unions can be co-opted to contain working-class opposition #exemplifies (0.77)
• Seemingly substantive policy domains conceal underlying partisan self-entrenchment battles. #corroborates (0.76) — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 536
• Substantive policy entrenchment outlasts and outperforms partisan entrenchment in durability. #complicates (0.75) — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 166
• Entrenchment can be functional, via empowered constituencies, not only formal legal rules #qualifies (0.74) — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 370
• Judging partisan entrenchment depends entirely on which baseline is chosen #qualifies (0.73) — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 420
• Legal entrenchment always depends on political entrenchment of the rules #qualifies (0.72) — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 187