French politics and society:
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List of illustrations ÎX
Preface X
Glossary xii
List of abbreviations XV
introduction
1 The making of modern France 3
1.1 Introduction 3
1.2 The ancien régime 4
1.3 The French Revolution: the making of modem France 5
1.4 The French Revolution: a divisive heritage 6
1.5 The Third Republic, 1870-1940 9
1.6 Vichy and the French Resistance 1940-4 13
1.7 The Fourth Republic 1944-58 14
2 France since 1958 21
2.1 Introduction 21
2.2 De Gaulle s republic 21
2.3 May 68: the Fifth Republic in crisis 24
2.4 Georges Pompidou, 1969-74: the acceptable face of Gaullism? 26
2.5 Valéry Giscard d Estaing, 1974-81 28
2.6 François Mitterrand, 1981-8: the chameleon 31
2.7 Mitterrand s second term, 1988-95 33
2.8 Jacques Chirac, 1995-7: the abrupt presidency 34
2.9 Jospin and the plural left coalition, 1997-2002 36
2.10 Chirac s second term, 2002-7 37
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2.11 Nicolas Sarkozy s fast presidency, 2007-12 38
2.12 François Hollander normal presidency, 2012-17 41
2.13 Concluding remarks 45
3 French political culture: representations and realities 49
3.1 Political culture in France: the traditional reading 49
3.2 A divided France? Post-revolutionary political culture(s) 51
3.3 Exceptionalism, decline and revival 58
3.4 Concluding remarks 61
4 Presidents and prime ministers 67
4.1 Introduction 67
4.2 Political leadership in the French Republican tradition 67
4.3 The 1958 constitution 68
4.4 The French presidency 71
4.5 Presidential style 72
4.6 Presidential resources 75
4.7 Prime-ministerial political leadership 77
4.8 Changing temporalities of French politics: towards a fast presidency? 83
4.9 Concluding comments 85
5 Checks and balances? 89
5.1 Introduction 89
5.2 The evolving constitution 89
5.3 The French parliament 93
5.4 The organisation of the French parliament in the Fifth Republic 94
5.5 Parliament in the Fifth Republic: an emasculated legislature? 96
5.6 Political dynamics and the operation of parliament 100
5.7 The judicialisation of French politics? 102
5.8 Concluding remarks 107
6 Reforming the state 111
6.1 Introduction 111
6.2 The French civil service: characteristics, context and culture 111
Contents vii
6.3 Reforming the French state: the public-service narrative 117
6.4 Reforming the French state: the state-productivity narrative and its limits 119
6.5 The French state today: continuity, conflict, cohesion 125
6.6 Concluding comments 129
7 A decentralised republic in a unitary state? Local and regional
government 135
7.1 Introduction 135
7.2 From the French model of territorial administration to the
decentralised republic 135
7.3 Actors and institutions of territorial governance 140
7.4 Dimensions and dilemmas of territorial governance 150
7.5 Concluding remarks 156
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8.2
8.3
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Political forces and representation
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The French party system: change and understanding change
163
Introduction 163
The French party system before 1981 163
The changing French party system 167
Cohesion and continuity of the French party system 172
Concluding remarks 177
9 French parties today
9.1 Introduction
9.2 The Republicans and their allies
9.3 Socialists, Communists and Greens
9.4 The Front National
9.5 Concluding remarks
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10 The representation of interests
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Economic interest groups
10.3 Social movements old and new
10.4 Groups and the French political system
10.5 Concluding remarks
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11.1
11.2
11.3
11.4
11.5
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12.1
12.2
12.3
12.4
12.5
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13.1
13.2
13.3
13.4
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14.1
14.2
14.3
Reshaping modern France
Society, Citizenship and welfare
Introduction
The evolution of French society: social consensus or social fracture?
The economy and economic governance
Social policy, the welfare state and the French social model
Concluding remarks
The Republican model of citizenship and its limits
Introduction
The French Republican tradition
The Republican model and the challenges of multiculturalism
The Republican tradition and the challenge of territory: the case of
lesser used languages
Multiple identities in contemporary France: a case study from Brittany
Concluding remarks
Europe and Europeanisation
Introduction
France and the European Union
Quelle finalité européenne? The French vision of Europe
France and Europeanisation
Concluding remarks
The Republic in danger?
Timeless institutions?
The Republic in danger!
The danger of hysteresis
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Index
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