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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administration alliance Balladur budget candidates cent Chirac civil servants coalition cohabitation Communists competition Conseil d’État Constitutional Council Council of Ministers 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 Française France France’s François Mitterrand French politics Front National Gaulle Gaulle’s Gaullist Gaullist party 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 notably officials organisation Paris parliament parliamentary elections parliamentary majority party party’s policy-making politicians polls Pompidou prefects president presidential election prime minister privatisation programme Raffarin referendum reform régime regional right-wing Rocard role second ballot sector Senate social Socialists tradition trente glorieuses Union vote voters