What is included with this book?
List of Tables | p. x |
List of Maps | p. xii |
Acknowledgements | p. xiii |
Abbreviations | p. xiv |
Introduction | p. 1 |
The Senate in the Fifth Republic | |
Bicameralism and political culture in the French Republic | p. 11 |
The constitution is the Senate 1875 | p. 12 |
1884 | p. 18 |
A republican Grand Council of Notables | p. 20 |
Absolute bicameralism | p. 24 |
The Fourth Republic-Bayeux and its consequences | p. 29 |
The provisional Council of the Republic | p. 32 |
The return to 1884 | p. 33 |
De Gaulle and the Senate 1958-1969 | p. 37 |
La restauration sénatoriale writing the Senate in 1958 | p. 39 |
The revenge of the notables | p. 42 |
Ostracism | p. 45 |
Bayeux redux | p. 49 |
1969: renovation of the Senate | p. 52 |
The parliamentary other 1969-1997 | p. 57 |
Normalisation | p. 58 |
The bipolar trap | p. 60 |
Une redoutable machine de guerre | p. 63 |
Cohabitation and the Senate | p. 65 |
Renovation versus reform | p. 67 |
Recovery | p. 71 |
Anomaly and apotheosis 1997-2009 | p. 75 |
Une anomalie | p. 76 |
Parity, décumul and Senate reform | p. 77 |
Apotheosis-a senator at Matignon | p. 79 |
Between hyperpresidentialism and parliamentary fetishism | p. 83 |
Balladur II and the millefeuille territorial | p. 88 |
Senators and the Senate | |
Departments, seats and colleges | p. 95 |
The Senate in 1959 | p. 96 |
1976-a missed opportunity | p. 100 |
2003-the loi Poncelet | p. 102 |
The electoral colleges | p. 107 |
The Raincourt proposal | p. 117 |
Mayfly electors | p. 119 |
Representing expatriates | p. 121 |
Les élus des elus | p. 123 |
Continuity and change | p. 128 |
Departmental turnover | p. 131 |
Senators, ministers and suppléants | p. 136 |
Deputies and senators | p. 138 |
The cumul des mandats | p. 142 |
Parity and sénatrices | p. 144 |
Mortality, age and longevity | p. 147 |
From a chambre d'agriculture to the République des professeurs | p. 151 |
Senators for French expatriates | p. 152 |
Senate elections and the Constitutional Council | p. 154 |
Being a senator | p. 157 |
Président de tous les sénateurs-the speaker of the Senate | p. 158 |
Vingt-deux and de présidence | p. 161 |
From Poher to pohérisation | p. 163 |
France's no. 1 car dealer | p. 166 |
A modest speaker for an ambitious Senate | p. 168 |
Un mandat de trop? | p. 171 |
Mon bon Gérard | p. 173 |
The executive bureau and the conférence des présidents | p. 175 |
The Republic of committees | p. 179 |
Political groups and political balance | p. 181 |
La gauche au pouvoir? | p. 187 |
Conclusion | p. 191 |
A quoi sert le Sénat? | p. 191 |
La chambre de tous les dangers | p. 193 |
Notes | p. 197 |
Select Bibliography | p. 209 |
Index | p. 215 |
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