Examines the liberalizing effects of education, using anti-Semitism as a dependent variable, in four countries (United States, West Germany, France, and Austria). Reports that the effects of education on liberal values are not universal but, rather, vary systematically according to country's liberal-democratic regime form and degree of religious…

French public affairs at the local level are managed by a complex, stable system of groups and institutions. Interorganizational relations are regulated by a complex, and more or less organized, system rather than by an interorganizational network. (Author/IRT)

This paper describes the government agencies and interest groups active in the highly centralized and politicized French educational system, and the reactions of these groups to the reforms of Education Minister Rene Haby, which impact on all segments of elementary, secondary, and teacher education. (SJL)