id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt d217qn61t83 Michael Thomas Hartney Turning Out Teachers: The Causes and Consequences of Teacher Political Activism in the Postwar United States 2014 .txt text/plain 357 10 20 I first demonstrate that the wave of public sector collective bargaining laws enacted by states during the 1960s and 1970s helped catalyze teacher political activism by decreasing the costs for teachers unions to mobilize rank-and-file teachers to participate more in politics. Namely, if teachers and their unions are as dominant a force in education politics as the conventional wisdom portends they are, why is the quantitative research literature on teacher unions effects so inconclusive at establishing those effects? cache/d217qn61t83.txt txt/d217qn61t83.txt