The End of the Experiment

Stanley Rothman (1927-2011) was director of the Center for the Study of Social and Political Change and was Mary Huggins Gamble Professor of Government Emeritus at Smith College, USA. Althea Nagai is a statistical consultant and co-authored three books with Stanley Rothman and Robert Lerner. Robert Maranto is the 21st Century Chair in Leadership at the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas, USA. Matthew C. Woessner is associate professor of political science and public policy at Penn State Harrisburg, USA. David J. Rothman serves as director of the graduate program in creative writing at Western State Colorado University, USA.

Foreword by Robert Maranto

Preface by Matthew Woessner

Acknowledgments by Althea Nagai

Part I: The Unraveling of Liberal Capitalism

1 Post-Industrial America

2 A Changing America

3 Post-Calvinist Society and the Rise of the Modern Intellectual

4 The Communications Revolution and American Society

Part II: New Strategic Elites

5 Elites in Conflict: The Theory (with Althea Nagai)

6 Elites in Conflict: The Findings (with Althea Nagai)

7 Personality, Occupation, and Social Change
(with Althea Nagai)

8 Afterword by Althea Nagai

Part III: Rothman's Impact

9 Stanley Rothman: Scholar and Academic Citizen
by Stephen H. Balch

10 The New Left and Political Intolerance
by April Kelly-Woessner

11 "People Are More Important Than Ideas": The Achievement of Stanley Rothman
by David J. Rothman

Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index