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 11
... Gaulle's decision to call on the French to continue the struggle under his leadership, gave a new and forceful expression to a third variety of French nationalism which had been crowded out by the extremists. In many ways Gaullism owes ...
... Gaulle's decision to call on the French to continue the struggle under his leadership, gave a new and forceful expression to a third variety of French nationalism which had been crowded out by the extremists. In many ways Gaullism owes ...
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... Gaulle's claim to transcend has some justification. The war years placed him on the same side as the predominantly left-wing Resistance. As head of a post-Liberation provisional government that included Communists, he nationalised banks ...
... Gaulle's claim to transcend has some justification. The war years placed him on the same side as the predominantly left-wing Resistance. As head of a post-Liberation provisional government that included Communists, he nationalised banks ...
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Andrew Knapp, Vincent Wright. • De Gaulle's wish to demonstrate French independence from the United States, and his ... Gaulle guarded praise from the PCF, but criticism from the Atlanticist parties of the Centre-Left and Centre-Right ...
Andrew Knapp, Vincent Wright. • De Gaulle's wish to demonstrate French independence from the United States, and his ... Gaulle guarded praise from the PCF, but criticism from the Atlanticist parties of the Centre-Left and Centre-Right ...
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... Gaulle's successor as president, put it succinctly, 'would not exist without a state.' The English have (or had) a ... Gaulle himself – could be seen as worthy democratic successors to the ancien régime monarchs. If this broadly ...
... Gaulle's successor as president, put it succinctly, 'would not exist without a state.' The English have (or had) a ... Gaulle himself – could be seen as worthy democratic successors to the ancien régime monarchs. If this broadly ...
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... Gaulle's family were a good example of the Gallican side of the divide: loyal to the Church, but wanting it run from within France. • The primacy of the state over its own servants is also part of the French state tradition. The ...
... Gaulle's family were a good example of the Gallican side of the divide: loyal to the Church, but wanting it run from within France. • The primacy of the state over its own servants is also part of the French state tradition. The ...
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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