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1 online resource (344 pages) |
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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? |
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2.5 Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 1974-812.6 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) |
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3.3 Exceptionalism, decline and revival3.4 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 |
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5.4 The organisation of the French parliament in the Fifth Republic5.5 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 |
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7 A decentralised republic in a unitary state? Local and regional government7.1 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 |
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9 French parties today |
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Print version record |
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Politics and government
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Social conditions
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France -- Politics and government -- 1945-
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France -- Social conditions -- 1945-1995.
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France -- Social conditions -- 1995-
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France
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317376958 |
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1317376951 |
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131737696X |
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9781317376965 |
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