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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... non-Gaullist moderate Right (NGMR) 227 Conflict, co-operation and the UMP 232 Other right-wing groups 236 The extreme Right: permanence and isolation of the Front National 239 The far Right's lasting breakthrough 240 The FN in the ...
... non-Gaullist moderate Right (NGMR) 227 Conflict, co-operation and the UMP 232 Other right-wing groups 236 The extreme Right: permanence and isolation of the Front National 239 The far Right's lasting breakthrough 240 The FN in the ...
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... Gaullist parties, 1958–2004 Votes for the non-Gaullist moderate Right, 1958–2004 Votes for the extreme Right, 1958–2004 The party system of the Fourth Republic: a simplified view Presidential elections, 1974: Giscard d'Estaing, second ...
... Gaullist parties, 1958–2004 Votes for the non-Gaullist moderate Right, 1958–2004 Votes for the extreme Right, 1958–2004 The party system of the Fourth Republic: a simplified view Presidential elections, 1974: Giscard d'Estaing, second ...
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... Gaullist prime minister from 1969 to 1972, and mayor of Bordeaux from 1947 ... not altogether inaccurate popular view, by a league of European despots to destroy the Revolution: the ... non-French origin to 10 French political traditions.
... Gaullist prime minister from 1969 to 1972, and mayor of Bordeaux from 1947 ... not altogether inaccurate popular view, by a league of European despots to destroy the Revolution: the ... non-French origin to 10 French political traditions.
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Andrew Knapp, Vincent Wright. 1889) and the duty of citizens of non-French ... no longer muster from the enemies of the Republic. Because the nationalism of ... Gaullist parties have come predominantly (though never exclusively) from the ...
Andrew Knapp, Vincent Wright. 1889) and the duty of citizens of non-French ... no longer muster from the enemies of the Republic. Because the nationalism of ... Gaullist parties have come predominantly (though never exclusively) from the ...
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... Gaulle as a straightforward conservative. And the Gaullist insistence on France's independence and status in the world has taken its place in the national diplomatic discourse, whether uttered by Gaullists, Socialists, members of the non ...
... Gaulle as a straightforward conservative. And the Gaullist insistence on France's independence and status in the world has taken its place in the national diplomatic discourse, whether uttered by Gaullists, Socialists, members of the non ...
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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