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Two types of leadership styles in social movements are constructed on the basis of closed or open access to the source of legitimacy. Several predictions about structural consequences of the open or closed access are then made. The types are applied to four cases: the Nazis, the Manson Family, the Millerites and Women's Liberation. The hypotheses are confirmed.

Chapter 1: The sociological study of conflict, social movements, and collective behavior -- Chapter 2: Sources of social conflict -- Chapter 3: Crises of national unity in new states: origins of the Nigerian Civil War -- Chapter 4: Mobilization: the formation of conflict groups -- Chapter 5: Mobilization: participation in opposition movements, leaders and activists, opposition ideas -- Chapter 6: Mobilization, leaders, and followers in the Civil Rights movement in the United States, 1950 to 1970 -- Chapter 7: Social control and conflict regulation -- Chapter 8: Confrontation -- Chapter 9: Group violence

This article takes the somewhat unusual form of a series of letters exchanged between Mr. B. A. Santamaria and Professor H. W. Arndt. The correspondence, which arose out of the Chifley Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor Arndt, is presented here because it represents a reasoned contribution to the discussion upon one of the most controversial issues in contemporary Australian politics. The attachment to the last letter takes the form of a commentary by Professor Arndt.