2020
DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/j9asz
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What Do Americans Want From (Private) Government? Experimental Evidence Demonstrates that Americans Want Workplace Democracy

Abstract: Much of the American labor force spends time in "private governments" over which they have little say during and beyond the work day. Do Americans prefer to work for businesses that look more like democracies or autocracies? We study this question using conjoint experimental techniques on a nationally representative sample of Americans. This design allows us to vary a large number of features of the workplace--especially their governance structures and the degree to which these structures allow for meaningful … Show more

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“…For all the public and philosophical interest that workplace democracy has recently elicited, this question has been largely neglected. In recent years, lawmakers in Europe, Australasia, and the Americas have proposed bills to secure employee representation in corporate boards (European Parliament, 2021;Jäger et al, 2021); governments from South Korea to Argentina have enacted laws to boost worker cooperatives, with the United Nations proclaiming the International Year of Cooperatives in 2025; workers on both sides of the Atlantic have expressed bipartisan support for employee control and ownership (Mazumder and Yan, 2023;High Pay Centre, 2022); and philosophers have inspected the reasons for and against workers' inclusion in corporate governance (Breen 2015;Anderson, 2017;Herzog, 2021;Kolodny, 2023). Yet few among these have pondered whether nonworker stakeholders, such as purchasers and local communities, likewise warrant inclusion.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For all the public and philosophical interest that workplace democracy has recently elicited, this question has been largely neglected. In recent years, lawmakers in Europe, Australasia, and the Americas have proposed bills to secure employee representation in corporate boards (European Parliament, 2021;Jäger et al, 2021); governments from South Korea to Argentina have enacted laws to boost worker cooperatives, with the United Nations proclaiming the International Year of Cooperatives in 2025; workers on both sides of the Atlantic have expressed bipartisan support for employee control and ownership (Mazumder and Yan, 2023;High Pay Centre, 2022); and philosophers have inspected the reasons for and against workers' inclusion in corporate governance (Breen 2015;Anderson, 2017;Herzog, 2021;Kolodny, 2023). Yet few among these have pondered whether nonworker stakeholders, such as purchasers and local communities, likewise warrant inclusion.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Board-level and shop-floor codetermination laws are widespread in Europe today, but absent in liberal market economies such as the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand ). Yet, surveys suggest that workers in these liberal market economies would prefer a greater voice in workplace governance (Bryson and Freeman, 2013;Kochan, Yang, Kimball, and Kelly, 2019;Hertel-Fernandez, Kimball, and Kochan, 2020;Mazumder and Yan, 2020).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…See https://www.forbes.com/sites/sageworks/2013/05/26/4-things-youdont-know-about-private-companies/?sh=cf28e4a291aa.18 The Supplementary Material provides the full materials. SeeMazumder and Yan (2023).19 We also present the results using marginal means followingLeeper, Hobolt, and Tilley (2020) in Appendix S2 of the Supplementary Material. Our results are unchanged.…”
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confidence: 99%