The high priests of American politics : the role of lawyers in American political institutions /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Knoxville :
University of Tennessee Press,
[1995]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The study of politics and of lawyers
- 2. Socialization into the legal profession
- 3. Lawyers, lawyers everywhere
- 4. The prevalence of lawyer-legislators in the United States
- 5. Are lawyers really different from nonlawyers?
- 6. How lawyer-legislators and nonlawyer-legislators view the courts
- 7. Are all lawyer-legislators the same? : a typology
- 8. Lawyers congressional committees
- 9. Lawyers' views and lawyers' ways : the institutional effects of lawyer-politicians.