ABSTRACT
Leaders are activists. More precisely, they are the most active activists. Only one of them engages in less than eight kinds of activities. Leaders are overwhelmingly found in the seven per cent
Let us offer a small part of the available evidence. When a random sample of citizens is asked whether they talk to people during local, state, and national campaigns to show them why they should vote for one of the parties or candidates, the least difference between them and leaders is 23% in the national sphere. In the local arena, leaders are 51% ahead in this kind of participation (Table 37). When it comes to giving money or helping in state and national campaigns, leaders are two to three times as active as the general population (Table 38). On the national level, leaders do much more than activists and more than seven times as much as apathetics. Wherever we tum, whether it is writing or talking to local officials or Congressmen (Table 39) or attending national campaign meetings (Table 40), leaders do a great deal more than others. Leaders not only say they like to join organizations somewhat more than do the general population
(Table 41), they actually join many more and are officers in more. In the general population only seven per cent belong to more than five organizations compared to 45% of the leaders (Table 42).
