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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... European integration, culminating in the historic rejection of the European constitutional treaty by French voters in ... Europe (third edition, 1998). The late Vincent Wright was Official Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and one of ...
... European integration, culminating in the historic rejection of the European constitutional treaty by French voters in ... Europe (third edition, 1998). The late Vincent Wright was Official Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and one of ...
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... Europe? 451 France and European policies 453 The Common Agricultural Policy 453 France, Europe and the neo-liberal paradigm change 459 The Common Foreign and Security Policy 467 Voters, parties and Europe 472 Concluding remarks 481 ...
... Europe? 451 France and European policies 453 The Common Agricultural Policy 453 France, Europe and the neo-liberal paradigm change 459 The Common Foreign and Security Policy 467 Voters, parties and Europe 472 Concluding remarks 481 ...
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... Europe, 1980–2004 French fears of Europe, spring 2004 Turnout at European elections in France and EEC/EU, 1979–2004 3 2 65 67 81 99 99 102 130 146 162 172 174 175 176 181 233 260 263 263 317 323 323 352 362 415 419 424 473 474 475 ...
... Europe, 1980–2004 French fears of Europe, spring 2004 Turnout at European elections in France and EEC/EU, 1979–2004 3 2 65 67 81 99 99 102 130 146 162 172 174 175 176 181 233 260 263 263 317 323 323 352 362 415 419 424 473 474 475 ...
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... European leaders the previous year. The former is incorporated chiefly into the chapters on party politics, the latter into an entirely new chapter (Chapter 14) on France and Europe which I had already decided to add to the text, and ...
... European leaders the previous year. The former is incorporated chiefly into the chapters on party politics, the latter into an entirely new chapter (Chapter 14) on France and Europe which I had already decided to add to the text, and ...
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... Europe. Whether it was to extend French territory to include pieces of Flanders or Savoy, in the name of frontiers spuriously considered as 'natural' from Louis XIV; or to throw back the forces of the crowned heads of Europe at Valmy ...
... Europe. Whether it was to extend French territory to include pieces of Flanders or Savoy, in the name of frontiers spuriously considered as 'natural' from Louis XIV; or to throw back the forces of the crowned heads of Europe at Valmy ...
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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