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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... administration transformed? 295 New pressures 296 A shrinking state 298 The administration and the limits to change 301 Concluding remarks 308 Further reading 310 The state and the pressure groups 312 The domination-crisis model 315 The ...
... administration transformed? 295 New pressures 296 A shrinking state 298 The administration and the limits to change 301 Concluding remarks 308 Further reading 310 The state and the pressure groups 312 The domination-crisis model 315 The ...
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... administration, was still largely unforeseen. The transformation of relations within the executive necessitated a major restructuring of the relevant chapters, for the prime minister can no longer be treated, as was still possible in ...
... administration, was still largely unforeseen. The transformation of relations within the executive necessitated a major restructuring of the relevant chapters, for the prime minister can no longer be treated, as was still possible in ...
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... administration to this day. Napoleon I gave each département a prefect, the symbol for two centuries of an intrusive and arbitrary central authority reaching into the most obscure corners of the furthest provinces. • Because the ...
... administration to this day. Napoleon I gave each département a prefect, the symbol for two centuries of an intrusive and arbitrary central authority reaching into the most obscure corners of the furthest provinces. • Because the ...
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... administration. • A tool of national cohesion. In a land prone to murderous political divisions, dirigisme appeared to be a positive-sum game in which everyone could win: not only the elites who conceived and managed it but also groups ...
... administration. • A tool of national cohesion. In a land prone to murderous political divisions, dirigisme appeared to be a positive-sum game in which everyone could win: not only the elites who conceived and managed it but also groups ...
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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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Common terms and phrases
administration alliance Balladur budget candidates cent Chirac civil servants coalition cohabitation Communists competition Conseil d’État Constitutional Council Council of Ministers Debré decentralisation defence départements Deputies dirigisme economic electoral elite Élysée Europe Europe’s European constitutional treaty European elections Eurosceptical example favour Fifth Republic finance firms former Fourth Republic France France’s François Mitterrand Front National Gaulle Gaulle’s Gaullist party Gaullists Giscard government’s groups industrial institutions Jacobin Jacques Chirac Jospin Juppé Laurent Fabius leaders leadership Left left-wing Left’s legislation less Maastricht Maastricht Treaty mainstream Matignon mayors Ministry Mitterrand moderate Right National Assembly Nationale non-Gaullist notably officials organisation Paris parliament parliamentary elections parliamentary majority party party’s policy-making politicians polls Pompidou prefects president presidential election prime minister privatisation Raffarin referendum reform régime regional right-wing Rocard role second ballot sector Senate social Socialists tion tradition trente glorieuses Union vote voters