NOT Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions.

• Date: 01 July 2023
• Author: Howard, Philip K.

NOT Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions

By Philip K. Howard

Reviewed by Marshall Kapp

Many Americans are deeply dissatisfied with the current performance of government at the federal, state, and local levels. Some of the populace's unease owes to disagreements about the proper direction of public policy, but the perceived dilemma is also largely more fundamental, going to dysfunction in the operational mechanics or administration of government in the first place. There are a multitude of plausible explanations for such government dysfunction. NOT Accountable carefully dissects a major one: the negative impact of disproportionate, self-serving, and arguably unconstitutional dominance by public employee unions (as opposed to trade unions to which only 6% of private...