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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Page viii
... policy-making: the variable diarchy 109 Presidential government 109 Presidential control of the government 110 Processes of presidential policy-making 111 Domains of presidential policy-making 112 Presidential policy-making: limitations ...
... policy-making: the variable diarchy 109 Presidential government 109 Presidential control of the government 110 Processes of presidential policy-making 111 Domains of presidential policy-making 112 Presidential policy-making: limitations ...
Page ix
... policy-making 123 Models of cohabitation 127 Ministers and government 129 The role of ministers under the Fifth Republic 129 The variable nature of ministerial power 131 Institutionalised tensions and the elusive goal of co-ordination ...
... policy-making 123 Models of cohabitation 127 Ministers and government 129 The role of ministers under the Fifth Republic 129 The variable nature of ministerial power 131 Institutionalised tensions and the elusive goal of co-ordination ...
Page xii
... development 383 Local policy-making 383 New local actors 383 Networks and local authority entrepreneurship 384 Concluding remarks: a continuing process 385 Further reading 387 French justice and the elusive État de droit 389 French ...
... development 383 Local policy-making 383 New local actors 383 Networks and local authority entrepreneurship 384 Concluding remarks: a continuing process 385 Further reading 387 French justice and the elusive État de droit 389 French ...
Page xiii
... policy-making 446 Speaking with one voice? France and European policy-making 447 Implementation: the slow man of Europe? 451 France and European policies 453 The Common Agricultural Policy 453 France, Europe and the neo-liberal paradigm ...
... policy-making 446 Speaking with one voice? France and European policy-making 447 Implementation: the slow man of Europe? 451 France and European policies 453 The Common Agricultural Policy 453 France, Europe and the neo-liberal paradigm ...
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... policy-making would require a hefty encyclopedia. At the summit, with overall responsibility for macroeconomic, fiscal and monetary policy, were the Presidency (after 1958), the Prime Minister's Office and the Finance Ministry ...
... policy-making would require a hefty encyclopedia. At the summit, with overall responsibility for macroeconomic, fiscal and monetary policy, were the Presidency (after 1958), the Prime Minister's Office and the Finance Ministry ...
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