The High Priests of American Politics: The Role of Lawyers in American Political InstitutionsUniv. of Tennessee Press, 2002 - 228 pàgines Using a multidisciplinary approach, Mark C. Miller draws in large part on interviews he conducted with members of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Ohio legislature, and the Massachusetts legislature. From this rich data, he shows how American lawyers are socialized into a common legal ideology, which in turn shapes the behavior of individual lawyer-politicians, legislative committees dominated by lawyers, and the entire legislative institutions of government. |
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Socialization into the Legal Profession | 17 |
Lawyers Lawyers Everywhere | 29 |
The Prevalence of LawyerLegislators in the United States | 57 |
Are Lawyers Really Different from Nonlawyers? | 76 |
How LawyerLegislators and NonlawyerLegislators | 95 |
Are All LawyerLegislators the Same? A Typology | 122 |
Lawyers on Congressional Committees | 139 |
The Institutional Effects | 162 |
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