The crystallization of the state and the struggles over rulemaking : Israel in comparative perspective / Joel S. Migdal -- Before the state : communal politics in Palestine under the mandate / Dan Horowitz -- Citizenship, nationality and religion in Israel and Thailand / Erik Cohen -- Jewish organized labor and the Palestinian : a study of state/society relations in Israel / Michael Shalev -- Children's perspective of minority rights : Israel in a cross-national perspective / Charles W. Greenbaum, Leon Mann & Shoshana Harpaz -- The social meaning of alternative systems : some explanatory notes / Nachman Ben-Yehuda -- The State of Israel as a theological dilemma / Menachem Friedman -- The structure and dilemmas of Israeli pluralism / Judith T. Shuval -- Between "Alexandria-on-the Hudson" and Zion / Baruch Kimmerling -- Boundaries and frontiers of the Israeli control system : analytical conclusions / Baruch Kimmerling