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This book examines the structure of Israeli interest groups, their strategies, their effectiveness, and their relations with state organizations and political parties. It addresses such important questions as the following. What are the links between political parties and interest groups? What are the attitudes of senior state officials toward interest groups? Why do interest groups influence public policy and to what extent? Are some groups more influential than others? Is Israel moving toward a post-materialist era?Land of Paradoxes reflects the realities of contemporary Israeli politics. Using a framework of universal interest-group configurations, the book shows how Israel deviates from these patterns and places it in a historical and comparative perspective.

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With an introduction by George Woodcock. Nearly a century has passed since Kropotkin wrote In Russian and French Prisons, yet his criticisms of the penal system have lost none of their relevance. Prisons- far from reforming the offender, or deterring crime- are, in themselves, "schools of crime". Every year, thousands of prisoners are returned to society without hope, without a trade, or without nay means of subsistence, and statistics show that once a man has been in prison he is likely to return. Moreover, the new offense is likely to be more serious than the first. Although Kropotkin makes extensive use of the memoirs of former prisoners and the works of contemporary penologists, it is his own experience in prison--he spent five years behind bars, two in Russia, three in France--that gives this book its power. He shows from first hand knowledge the immense human suffering caused by prison life: how it destroys the mind and body, how it degrades and humiliates, how it perverts the prisoner's character and robs him of his dignity, how it reduces him to the condition of a caged animal, how his whole life is subjected to a deadly mechanical routine, how everything is done to break his spirit and kill his inner strength. In Russian and French Prisons is the 6th volume of The Collected Works of Peter Kropotkin.Table of Contents Introduction to the 1991 edition by George Woodcock Author's preface to the Russian edition (1906) Introduction I. My first acquaintance with Russian prisons II. Russian prisons III. The fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul IV. Outcast Russia V. The exile in Siberia VI. The exile of Sakhalin VII. A foreigner in Russian prisons VIII. In French prisons IX. On the moral influence of prisons on prisoners X. Are prisons necessary? Appendix A- Trial of the Soldiers accused of having carried Letters from Alexis Ravelin Appendix B- On the part played by the Exiles in the Colonization of Siberia Appendix C- Extract from a Report on "Administrative Exile," read by M. Shakeeff at the Sitting of the St. Petersburg Nobility on February 17, 1881 Appendix D- On Reformatories for Boys in France1991: 387 pages, index

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"Ihde is perhaps uniquely situated to provide authoritative accounts of such diverse philosophical traditions as those involved in current explorations of the technology of scientific instruments. . . . Ihde's book breaks new ground and . . . makes an important debate accessible." --Robert AckermannInstrumental Realism has three principal aims: to advocate a "praxis-perception" approach to the philosophy of science; to explore ways in which such an approach offers a mutually illuminating overlap with a philosophy of technology; and to examine comparatively and critically the work of some who advocate an "instrumental realist" approach to the philosophy of science.

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