This paper compares the Butler and Ehrenberg analysis of the narcotic effects of impasse procedures, presented in the preceding article, with the purposes, methods, and empirical results of the authors' earlier paper on the same subject. The authors use the differences in the two papers to argue...

Analyzes collective bargaining among police and firefighter units in New York between 1968 and 1976 to test a model of the determinants of reliance on impasse procedures. Determinants of impasses; Environmental sources of impasse; Data and methods used; Implications. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)