ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION The testing of the organisational hypotheses on the British unions followed a different strategy, basically because of the smaller sample - thirty-one unions as compared to fifty-one American - and the availability of much fuller information. Emphasis was placed on the directions and size of the simple correlations between the predictors and the measures of electoral opposition, rather than on the complex analyses performed on the Ameri can data using all the predictors simultaneously. Factor analysis was literally impossible for statistical reasons: there were too few British unions in relation to the number of variables examined.
