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 19
... sector (a major contrast with Britain). The public sector accounted for 24 per cent of employment, 32 per cent of sales, 30 per cent of exports and, most crucially, 60 per cent of annual investment in the industrial and energy sectors ...
... sector (a major contrast with Britain). The public sector accounted for 24 per cent of employment, 32 per cent of sales, 30 per cent of exports and, most crucially, 60 per cent of annual investment in the industrial and energy sectors ...
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... sectors, including non-ferrous metals, aerospace, mining, heavy chemicals and petroleum, over half of annual ... sector noted above. This dense variety of institutions was given (some) horizontal co-ordination by an equally dense ...
... sectors, including non-ferrous metals, aerospace, mining, heavy chemicals and petroleum, over half of annual ... sector noted above. This dense variety of institutions was given (some) horizontal co-ordination by an equally dense ...
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... sectors considered elsewhere, at least in the postwar period, as 'natural' public-sector domains. The social security system, for instance, was officially administered by the 'social partners' – unions and employers – with only periodic ...
... sectors considered elsewhere, at least in the postwar period, as 'natural' public-sector domains. The social security system, for instance, was officially administered by the 'social partners' – unions and employers – with only periodic ...
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... sector, it became an incoherent patchwork created by political acts but extended by the acquisition policies of nationalised firms. It included lame ducks in need of constant and often ineffective subsidy, but also highly profitable ...
... sector, it became an incoherent patchwork created by political acts but extended by the acquisition policies of nationalised firms. It included lame ducks in need of constant and often ineffective subsidy, but also highly profitable ...
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... sectors as varied as petrochemicals, automobiles, aerospace, or building and public works, went a corresponding increase ... sector such as healthcare and education. The new, salaried middle classes became more numerous than the old ones ...
... sectors as varied as petrochemicals, automobiles, aerospace, or building and public works, went a corresponding increase ... sector such as healthcare and education. The new, salaried middle classes became more numerous than the old ones ...
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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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