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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... favour 322 The endemic and open conflict model: objections 328 The corporatist and concerted politics models 330 Corporatism: evidence in favour 331 Corporatism: objections 333 The pluralist model 334 Pluralism: evidence in favour 335 ...
... favour 322 The endemic and open conflict model: objections 328 The corporatist and concerted politics models 330 Corporatism: evidence in favour 331 Corporatism: objections 333 The pluralist model 334 Pluralism: evidence in favour 335 ...
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... favoured independence for France's most important, and most densely colonised, North African territory. While groups of the far Left rapidly came to support the independence movement, it was de Gaulle, a right-wing soldier, who finally ...
... favoured independence for France's most important, and most densely colonised, North African territory. While groups of the far Left rapidly came to support the independence movement, it was de Gaulle, a right-wing soldier, who finally ...
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... favour the success of grands projets; it deployed a variety of contractual tools, linked to financial inducements, to promote or succour specific sectors or nationalised industries; it wielded an extraordinary array of protectionist ...
... favour the success of grands projets; it deployed a variety of contractual tools, linked to financial inducements, to promote or succour specific sectors or nationalised industries; it wielded an extraordinary array of protectionist ...
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... favour of state control: telecommunications and electricity supply are good examples of sectors in which barriers to ... favoured extensive state intervention in capitalist economies French political traditions 27.
... favour of state control: telecommunications and electricity supply are good examples of sectors in which barriers to ... favoured extensive state intervention in capitalist economies French political traditions 27.
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Andrew Knapp, Vincent Wright. economic consensus which favoured extensive state intervention in capitalist economies via regulation or ownership of firms, managed exchange rates and the use of demand management (through, for example ...
Andrew Knapp, Vincent Wright. economic consensus which favoured extensive state intervention in capitalist economies via regulation or ownership of firms, managed exchange rates and the use of demand management (through, for example ...
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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