Luke Elliott-Negri is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is author of several articles about industrial unionism and social movements, and co-author of a policy report on Connecticut’s paid sick days law. His dissertation analyzes the prospects of a contemporary left-wing political party (the Working Families Party) against the backdrop of the literature on American exceptionalism with respect to party formation. His co-authored book about social movement success and failure is under review at Oxford University Press. He earned his M.A. in sociology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and his B.A. in sociology from Boston College.