Developments In French Politics 3

by Edited by Alistair Cole, Patrick Le Galès and Jonah Levy

• ISBN13: 9781403941800
• ISBN10: 1403941807
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2005-09-17
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Edited by a new team of leading authorities of French politics, Developments in French Politics 3 brings together specially written chapters by leading French and Anglo-American experts to provide a systematic and rigorously edited assessment of key issues, events and changes in French Politics under Chirac.

Author Biography

Alistair Cole is Professor of European Politics, Cardiff University.

Patrick Le GalFs is Director of Research, CEVIPOF CNRS/Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris, France.

Jonah Levy is Professor of European Politics, University of California, Berkeley.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	vii
List of Abbreviations	ix
Notes on the Contributors	xiv
Map of France	xviii
1 The Shifting Politics of the Fifth Republic	1	(17)
Jonah Levy, Alistair Cole and Patrick Le Galès
2 Parties and Organizations	18	(17)
Florence Haegel
3 Electorates, New Cleavages and Social Structures	35	(19)
Jocelyn Evans and Nonna Mayer
4 Associational Life in Contemporary France	54	(16)
Andrew Appleton
5 The Political Executive	70	(18)
Robert Elgie
6 Prometheus (Re)Bound? The Fifth Republic and Checks on Executive Power	88	(17)
Andrew Knapp
7 The Europeanization of the French State	105	(17)
Andy Smith
8 Reshaping the State? Administrative and Decentralization Reforms	122	(16)
Patrick Le Galès
9 Foreign and Defence Policy: Constraints and Continuity	138	(16)
John Keiger
10 Immigration Politics and Policies	154	(16)
Virginie Guiraudon
11 Economic Policy and Policy-Making	170	(25)
Jonah Levy
12 Education and Educational Governance	195	(17)
Alistair Cole
13 Gendering the Fifth Republic	212	(18)
Amy Mazur
14 Identities, Nationalism, Citizenship and Republican Ideology	230	(15)
Sophie Duchesne
Further Reading	245	(5)
Bibliography	250	(14)
Index	264