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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... traditions which have maintained their power to shape French political behaviour to this day. The long view supplied in this book allows a unique understanding of how the dynamic, confident economic and political power of the early de ...
... traditions which have maintained their power to shape French political behaviour to this day. The long view supplied in this book allows a unique understanding of how the dynamic, confident economic and political power of the early de ...
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... traditions in a changing context 1 A legacy of conflict 1 The régime 2 The Church 4 The politics of class 6 Le parti du ... tradition 40 Patterns of political conflict 44 Concluding remarks 46 Further reading 47 2 From Fourth to Fifth ...
... traditions in a changing context 1 A legacy of conflict 1 The régime 2 The Church 4 The politics of class 6 Le parti du ... tradition 40 Patterns of political conflict 44 Concluding remarks 46 Further reading 47 2 From Fourth to Fifth ...
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... tradition of political division in France France: régimes since 1789 Constitutional amendments since 1958 Presidents of the Fifth Republic Prime ministers of the Fifth Republic Presidential popularities, October 1978–June 2005 Prime ...
... tradition of political division in France France: régimes since 1789 Constitutional amendments since 1958 Presidents of the Fifth Republic Prime ministers of the Fifth Republic Presidential popularities, October 1978–June 2005 Prime ...
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... traditions of political conflict and of the strong state in France are the subjects of this chapter. It will be argued that many, though not all, of France's traditional political conflicts are now played out; that the state tradition ...
... traditions of political conflict and of the strong state in France are the subjects of this chapter. It will be argued that many, though not all, of France's traditional political conflicts are now played out; that the state tradition ...
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... tradition of political division in France Area of division Left Right Régime (early Revolution) Régime (nineteenth century) Régime (first half of twentieth century) Church (nineteenth century) Church (twentieth century) Economy and ...
... tradition of political division in France Area of division Left Right Régime (early Revolution) Régime (nineteenth century) Régime (first half of twentieth century) Church (nineteenth century) Church (twentieth century) Economy and ...
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