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Author(s): Andrew Knapp
ISBN(s): 9780415357333, 0415215269
Edition: 4
File Details: PDF, 4.32 MB
Year: 2001
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0415107709

ISBN 13: 978-0415107709

Author: Andrew Knapp, Vincent Wright

The Government and Politics of France 4th Edition continues to provide students with a comprehensive and incisive introduction to the intricacies of French politics and government. Written by two leading authorities on the subject, this widely used textbook has been fully revised and up-dated to take into account the many changes that have occurred since the last edition was published. Coverage includes:

* French political traditions
* constitution and the Fifth Republic
* the executive
* the Parliament
* parties and the party system
* the Administration
* interest groups
* local politics
* the impact of the EU.

Table of contents:

  1. The Church

  2. Nationalisms

  3. Consensus on the régime

  4. The State tradition: challenges from within

  5. Readings of the Fifth Republic

  6. Valéry Giscard d’Estaing (1926– )

  7. The Élysée

  8. Domains of presidential policy-making

  9. Cultural and broadcasting questions

  10. Cohabitation: patronage and policy-making

  11. The limitation on parliament’s law-making powers

  12. Committees of enquiry

  13. The budget

  14. The PCF’s mutation: too little, too late?

  15. The ‘revolutionary’ label

  16. Leadership

  17. Co-operation, conflict and defeat, 1974–83

  18. The Gaullists

  19. Organisational renovation, electoral and strategic impasse: 1976–81

  20. Political strategy

  21. Party configurations, 1956–2000

  22. Gaullist ‘dominance’, 1962–74

  23. Socialist ‘dominance’, 1981–86

  24. Bipolarity: characteristics

  25. Institutional dynamics

  26. Social developments and voting behaviour

  27. The colonisation by the civil service of areas beyond the confines of mere administration

  28. The determination of the founders of the Fifth Republic to subordinate the administration to politics

  29. The permeable State–groups barrier

  30. The endemic and open conflict model: objections

  31. Mixed models

  32. Determinants of group influence

  33. The power of the notables

  34. Decentralisation: the measures

  35. Concluding remarks: a continuing process

  36. The Constitutional Council

  37. The judicialisation of public policy

  38. Judges as policy-makers

  39. Judicial activism and corruption cases

  40. Domestic constraints on policy-making

  41. Appendix 1 Chronological table

  42. Appendix 2 Chronological table

  43. Appendix 3 Voting behaviour in the April–May 1995 presidential elections

  44. Voting behaviour in the April–May 1995 presidential elections

  45. Appendix 4 Presidents and prime ministers of the Fifth Republic

  46. Appendix 5 Abbreviations for French parties

  47. The extreme Right

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