ISBN:
9781317376958
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (344 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Cole, Alistair French Politics and Society
DDC:
306.2/0944
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Glossary -- List of abbreviations -- Part I Introduction -- 1 The making of modern France -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The ancien régime -- 1.3 The French Revolution: the making of modern France -- 1.4 The French Revolution: a divisive heritage -- 1.5 The Third Republic, 1870-1940 -- 1.6 Vichy and the French Resistance 1940-4 -- 1.7 The Fourth Republic 1944-58 -- 2 France since 1958 -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 De Gaulle's republic -- 2.3 May '68: the Fifth Republic in crisis -- 2.4 Georges Pompidou, 1969-74: the acceptable face of Gaullism? -- 2.5 Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 1974-81 -- 2.6 François Mitterrand, 1981-8: the chameleon -- 2.7 Mitterrand's second term, 1988-95 -- 2.8 Jacques Chirac, 1995-7: the abrupt presidency -- 2.9 Jospin and the plural left coalition, 1997-2002 -- 2.10 Chirac's second term, 2002-7 -- 2.11 Nicolas Sarkozy's fast presidency, 2007-12 -- 2.12 François Hollande's 'normal' presidency, 2012-17 -- 2.13 Concluding remarks -- 3 French political culture: representations and realities -- 3.1 Political culture in France: the traditional reading -- 3.2 A divided France? Post-revolutionary political culture(s) -- 3.3 Exceptionalism, decline and revival -- 3.4 Concluding remarks -- Part II Institutions and power -- 4 Presidents and prime ministers -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Political leadership in the French Republican tradition -- 4.3 The 1958 constitution -- 4.4 The French presidency -- 4.5 Presidential style -- 4.6 Presidential resources -- 4.7 Prime-ministerial political leadership -- 4.8 Changing temporalities of French politics: towards a fast presidency? -- 4.9 Concluding comments -- 5 Checks and balances? -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The evolving constitution -- 5.3 The French parliament
Abstract:
5.4 The organisation of the French parliament in the Fifth Republic -- 5.5 Parliament in the Fifth Republic: an emasculated legislature? -- 5.6 Political dynamics and the operation of parliament -- 5.7 The judicialisation of French politics? -- 5.8 Concluding remarks -- 6 Reforming the state -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The French civil service: characteristics, context and culture -- 6.3 Reforming the French state: the public-service narrative -- 6.4 Reforming the French state: the state-productivity narrative and its limits -- 6.5 The French state today: continuity, conflict, cohesion -- 6.6 Concluding comments -- 7 A decentralised republic in a unitary state? Local and regional government -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 From the French model of territorial administration to the decentralised republic -- 7.3 Actors and institutions of territorial governance -- 7.4 Dimensions and dilemmas of territorial governance -- 7.5 Concluding remarks -- Part III Political forces and representation -- 8 The French party system: change and understanding change -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The French party system before 1981 -- 8.3 The changing French party system -- 8.4 Cohesion and continuity of the French party system -- 8.5 Concluding remarks -- 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 -- 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 -- Part IV Reshaping modern France -- 11 Society, citizenship and welfare -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 The evolution of French society: social consensus or social fracture? -- 11.3 The economy and economic governance
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11.4 Social policy, the welfare state and the French social model -- 11.5 Concluding remarks -- 12 The Republican model of citizenship and its limits -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 The French Republican tradition -- 12.3 The Republican model and the challenges of multiculturalism -- 12.4 The Republican tradition and the challenge of territory: the case of lesser used languages -- 12.5 Multiple identities in contemporary France: a case study from Brittany -- 12.6 Concluding remarks -- 13 Europe and Europeanisation -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 France and the European Union -- 13.3 Quelle finalité européenne? The French vision of Europe -- 13.4 France and Europeanisation -- 13.5 Concluding remarks -- 14 The Republic in danger? -- 14.1 Timeless institutions? -- 14.2 The Republic in danger! -- 14.3 The danger of hysteresis -- Index
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