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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... Dirigisme 18 The state: image and reality 22 The changing context of French political traditions 24 Post-war boom: the trente glorieuses 24 Globalisation 27 Europe 29 Political conflict and the state: transformations 31 Zones of ...
... Dirigisme 18 The state: image and reality 22 The changing context of French political traditions 24 Post-war boom: the trente glorieuses 24 Globalisation 27 Europe 29 Political conflict and the state: transformations 31 Zones of ...
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... dirigisme. The adoption in 1880 by what was to prove France's longest Republic, the Third, of the most obvious Republican symbols – the Marseillaise as the national anthem and the 14th July, anniversary of the storming of the Bastille ...
... dirigisme. The adoption in 1880 by what was to prove France's longest Republic, the Third, of the most obvious Republican symbols – the Marseillaise as the national anthem and the 14th July, anniversary of the storming of the Bastille ...
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... receptive to the great expansion in the role of the state that occurred throughout the developed capitalist world after 1945. Dirigisme A prime example of a state-led consensus between apparently French political traditions 17.
... receptive to the great expansion in the role of the state that occurred throughout the developed capitalist world after 1945. Dirigisme A prime example of a state-led consensus between apparently French political traditions 17.
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Andrew Knapp, Vincent Wright. Dirigisme A prime example of a state-led consensus between apparently opposed political forces is dirigisme, the term coined to characterise the intervention of the state in the post-war economy. Dirigisme ...
Andrew Knapp, Vincent Wright. Dirigisme A prime example of a state-led consensus between apparently opposed political forces is dirigisme, the term coined to characterise the intervention of the state in the post-war economy. Dirigisme ...
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Andrew Knapp, Vincent Wright. Divided in its ideological justifications for dirigisme, the coalition still shared a common aversion to what was called capitalisme sauvage and indeed to the market in general, and an assumption that heroic ...
Andrew Knapp, Vincent Wright. Divided in its ideological justifications for dirigisme, the coalition still shared a common aversion to what was called capitalisme sauvage and indeed to the market in general, and an assumption that heroic ...
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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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