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 xvii
... polling days: 21 April 2002, when France's voters surprised themselves and the world by putting a candidate of the extreme Right into the second ballot of a presidential election, and 29 May 2005, when they rejected the constitutional ...
... polling days: 21 April 2002, when France's voters surprised themselves and the world by putting a candidate of the extreme Right into the second ballot of a presidential election, and 29 May 2005, when they rejected the constitutional ...
Page 9
... polls show that the French have little difficulty in placing both themselves and leading politicians at a particular point on a Left–Right continuum. Left and Right have been regular terms of French political discourse for over a ...
... polls show that the French have little difficulty in placing both themselves and leading politicians at a particular point on a Left–Right continuum. Left and Right have been regular terms of French political discourse for over a ...
Page 32
... polls found that a majority of abstentionists considered high petrol prices a more important issue (though interestingly, it was in the debates over the European constitutional treaty in 2005 that some of the old passions over ...
... polls found that a majority of abstentionists considered high petrol prices a more important issue (though interestingly, it was in the debates over the European constitutional treaty in 2005 that some of the old passions over ...
Page 35
... polls from the early 1990s on showed that for the first time since 1945, most French parents expected their children to live no better, and possibly less well, than they did. The popularity of books such as Viviane Forrester's L'horreur ...
... polls from the early 1990s on showed that for the first time since 1945, most French parents expected their children to live no better, and possibly less well, than they did. The popularity of books such as Viviane Forrester's L'horreur ...
Page 38
... poll in 2001 viewed globalisation as a threat to French firms and jobs, against 37 per cent who saw it as an opportunity), plus a sense of France's universal mission for humankind, leavened with anti-Americanism. But beyond the creation ...
... poll in 2001 viewed globalisation as a threat to French firms and jobs, against 37 per cent who saw it as an opportunity), plus a sense of France's universal mission for humankind, leavened with anti-Americanism. But beyond the creation ...
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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