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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... institution, though not necessarily to Christianity itself) became as much a badge of the Left as republicanism. The ... institutions, the construction of a welfare state, and industrial co-operation between workers and employers, in the ...
... institution, though not necessarily to Christianity itself) became as much a badge of the Left as republicanism. The ... institutions, the construction of a welfare state, and industrial co-operation between workers and employers, in the ...
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... institutions deployed to manage civil society, and because it will illustrate the difficulties encountered by France in adjusting to a more globalised, liberal world economy. Like the broader culture of the state, dirigisme in France ...
... institutions deployed to manage civil society, and because it will illustrate the difficulties encountered by France in adjusting to a more globalised, liberal world economy. Like the broader culture of the state, dirigisme in France ...
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... institutional architecture. A full description of the institutions involved in French economic policy-making would require a hefty encyclopedia. At the summit, with overall responsibility for macroeconomic, fiscal and monetary policy ...
... institutional architecture. A full description of the institutions involved in French economic policy-making would require a hefty encyclopedia. At the summit, with overall responsibility for macroeconomic, fiscal and monetary policy ...
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... institutions of the French welfare state (particularly the social security system), and an 'inflationary social compromise' that allowed the minimum wage, and thence a broad swathe of industrial wages, to rise at least in line with ...
... institutions of the French welfare state (particularly the social security system), and an 'inflationary social compromise' that allowed the minimum wage, and thence a broad swathe of industrial wages, to rise at least in line with ...
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... institutions in the process (so that the allocation of credit, for example, often bore little relation to the priorities of the Plan). Though a handful of flagship grands projets, such as Caravelle, succeeded, others, such as the Plan ...
... institutions in the process (so that the allocation of credit, for example, often bore little relation to the priorities of the Plan). Though a handful of flagship grands projets, such as Caravelle, succeeded, others, such as the Plan ...
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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