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Lawyers and Political Participation

LAWYERS PROBABLY HOLD public office and engage in political activity more than members of any other single occupational group. Scholarly explanations of lawyers' political activism typically rely on factors endemic to the nature and structure of legal practice and the legal profession.' Although Joseph A. Schlesinger suggested long ago that variations in state political systems may help explain differential political success for occupational groups, analyses of lawyers' political activity usually emphasize structural legal variables and minimize or ignore political variables.2 This note examines the hypothesis that, in urban areas, individual practitioners are more active politically than lawyers in large