Congressional Elections and Union Officer Prosecutions
研究发现，当工会支持的候选人以微弱劣势落选时，工会官员被起诉的概率比微弱胜选时高1.5个百分点，表明国会成员可能影响对工会的司法追究。
Abstract Politicizing the investigation of politically active groups is harmful for both the justice system and democratic accountability. I test whether members of the U.S. Congress affect the investigation and prosecution of politically active labor unions. Union officers are 1.5 percentage points more likely to be prosecuted when their supported candidate barely loses instead of barely wins (compared to the 3% base rate). Anecdotal evidence and a novel decomposition suggest a role for both union-supported winners protecting allies and union-opposed winners pushing for aggressive prosecution of their opponents. I show that prosecutions undermine unions' strength, and I calculate implications for the incumbency advantage.