The Government and Politics of FranceThe Government and Politics of France has been the leading textbook on French politics for over a generation, and continues to provide students with a comprehensive and incisive introduction to the intricacies of French politics and government. This edition updates every chapter, with the addition of a new chapter on France and Europe. Recent events necessitate a new edition, particularly the 2002 elections and the growing interpenetration of France and the EU in student programmes, as well as in the real world. Whether covering the shifting balance within France's two-headed executive, the paradoxes of the French party politics, the power and fragmentation of France's administration, the growing assertiveness of French local government, or the newly visible world of the judiciary, The Government and Politics of France has always sought to confront established paradigms with the complex and untidy reality of French politics at the grass roots. |
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Page viii
... Constitutional Council and the État de droit 63 The constitution in flux 64 Further reading 66 3 Presidents and prime ministers: the personal factor 67 Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) 67 Georges Pompidou (1908–74) 68 Valéry Giscard d ...
... Constitutional Council and the État de droit 63 The constitution in flux 64 Further reading 66 3 Presidents and prime ministers: the personal factor 67 Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) 67 Georges Pompidou (1908–74) 68 Valéry Giscard d ...
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... Constitutional Council as anti-parliamentary watchdog 149 The decline of parliament: factors unconstitutional and extra-constitutional 149 An overbearing executive 149 Le fait majoritaire 152 Parliament's lack of resources 153 ...
... Constitutional Council as anti-parliamentary watchdog 149 The decline of parliament: factors unconstitutional and extra-constitutional 149 An overbearing executive 149 Le fait majoritaire 152 Parliament's lack of resources 153 ...
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... Constitutional Council 395 The Cour de Justice de la République (Court of Justice of the Republic) 396 The ordinary courts 396 The Conseil d'État (Council of State) 397 The Cour des Comptes (Court of Accounts) 398 14 15 The ...
... Constitutional Council 395 The Cour de Justice de la République (Court of Justice of the Republic) 396 The ordinary courts 396 The Conseil d'État (Council of State) 397 The Cour des Comptes (Court of Accounts) 398 14 15 The ...
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... Constitutional Council Public confidence in the justice system in Europe, 1999 A chronology of the EU, 1950–2005 Attitudes to European integration in France and Europe, 1980–2004 French fears of Europe, spring 2004 Turnout at European ...
... Constitutional Council Public confidence in the justice system in Europe, 1999 A chronology of the EU, 1950–2005 Attitudes to European integration in France and Europe, 1980–2004 French fears of Europe, spring 2004 Turnout at European ...
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... Constitutional Council, France's (very) approximate equivalent to the United States Supreme Court, which from 1971 incorporated the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen into the 'bloc of constitutionality' when it ...
... Constitutional Council, France's (very) approximate equivalent to the United States Supreme Court, which from 1971 incorporated the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen into the 'bloc of constitutionality' when it ...
Contents
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2 From Fourth to Fifth Republic | 49 |
The personal factor | 67 |
4 The sources of executive power | 85 |
The variable diarchy | 109 |
Decline and resurgence? | 141 |
The dilemma of government | 168 |
Domination and division | 216 |
Etat de droit | 389 |
14 France and European integration | 422 |
15 Conclusion | 487 |
Main events from the Revolution to the collapse of the Fourth Republic | 501 |
Main events from the foundation of the Fifth Republic until 2005 | 503 |
penetration of each social group by candidate | 514 |
penetration of each social group by Left and Right | 516 |
Appendix 5 Voting behaviour in two referendums on Europe 20 September 1992 and 29 May 2005 | 517 |
Continuity and change | 252 |
Foundations myth and changing reality | 281 |
11 The state and the pressure groups | 312 |
The postJacobin state | 349 |
Appendix 6 Abbreviations for French parties | 518 |
Appendix 7 Other abbreviations | 520 |
Index | 522 |
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