Abstract
Do political attitudes influence the likelihood of employees being members of a trade union, and to what extent is this the case in the Nordic countries with their high aggregate levels of membership? In this article, I address these questions using European Social Survey data from 2012. The results show that left-wing political attitudes have the most impact on the likelihood of trade union membership in Sweden and to a lesser extent in Denmark. In Norway and Finland, there is no statistically significant impact. I argue that the impact of left-wing political attitudes on unionization in Sweden and Denmark reflects a conception among employees that trade unions are normative organizations.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 0 |
| Journal | European Journal of Industrial Relations |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Pages (from-to) | 381-395 |
| ISSN | 0959-6801 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2017 |
