NEW LEFTIST LEADERS AND FOLLOWERS: THE AUTHORITY GAP IN PARTICIPATORY‐DEMOCRATIC GROUPS Available to Purchase

Previous studies of late adolescent protesters on university campuses have generally focused on the social, psychological, and political differences between protesters and non‐protesters. Yet differences among the protesters themselves have rarely been the topic of intensive inquiry. Caught by surprise at the rapid surge of New Leftist campus protest, social scientists and psychologists hurriedly attempted to explain the phenomenon by discovering the differences between activists and non‐activists. Thus university protesters have generally been conceived as a somewhat homogenous mass set against their less radical fellow students.