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Director's Statement

The overall goal of the Center is to develop a better understanding of the past, present, and future of the American social and political experiment on the basis of certain hypotheses that I have developed which place that experiment in a particular historical and comparative perspective.

Empirical studies, each designed to elucidate some aspect of my hypotheses, have generated a series of inter-related publications. Work related to these studies continues under the aegis of the Center. Many of the Center's studies probe the political ideologies and the personalities of America's newly powerful cultural elites, and the influence of these elites on the general population and on various public policy issues.

To view a more detailed discussion of each of the studies in which the Center is currently involved Click Here

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