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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... trente glorieuses 24 Globalisation 27 Europe 29 Political conflict and the state: transformations 31 Zones of consensus 31 The dismantling of dirigisme 33 The state tradition: challenges from within 35 Redefining political conflict 37 ...
... trente glorieuses 24 Globalisation 27 Europe 29 Political conflict and the state: transformations 31 Zones of consensus 31 The dismantling of dirigisme 33 The state tradition: challenges from within 35 Redefining political conflict 37 ...
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... trente glorieuses, as the French came to describe the three decades of expansion between 1945 and the mid-1970s, saw both the heyday of dirigisme and a social transformation of unprecedented dimensions in France: the farming population ...
... trente glorieuses, as the French came to describe the three decades of expansion between 1945 and the mid-1970s, saw both the heyday of dirigisme and a social transformation of unprecedented dimensions in France: the farming population ...
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... trente glorieuses The trente glorieuses is a somewhat misleading but widely used term describing the post-war boom: it took six post-war years simply to return to the levels of production of 1929, and the boom was over by 1975. That ...
... trente glorieuses The trente glorieuses is a somewhat misleading but widely used term describing the post-war boom: it took six post-war years simply to return to the levels of production of 1929, and the boom was over by 1975. That ...
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... trente glorieuses suffered from a chronic housing crisis, caused by low levels of construction in the inter-war years, wartime damage, population growth (by nearly 30 per cent, from 40.5 to 52.5 French political traditions 25.
... trente glorieuses suffered from a chronic housing crisis, caused by low levels of construction in the inter-war years, wartime damage, population growth (by nearly 30 per cent, from 40.5 to 52.5 French political traditions 25.
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... trente glorieuses were marked by a rapid general expansion of education, with the Fouchet reforms of 1963 guaranteeing at least some secondary education for all. As late as 1965, barely 10 per cent of French school leavers possessed the ...
... trente glorieuses were marked by a rapid general expansion of education, with the Fouchet reforms of 1963 guaranteeing at least some secondary education for all. As late as 1965, barely 10 per cent of French school leavers possessed the ...
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