The Changing French Political System

Robert Elgie

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9780714680989
• eBook ISBN:
  9781135267339
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political Parties
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Examining the nature of the Fifth Republic after its first 42 years, this study looks at the challenges posed by new parties and new expressions of political mobilization. Entrenched policy routines are being undermined by the emergence of new actors and the failure of old paradigms.

Index

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Act Up (AIDS organisation) 5, 68

Aerospatiale 9, 176–7

Aides 68

Air France 9, 32, 149, 152, 156, 176–7

Albert, Michel 217

Alcatel-Alsthom 176–7

Alleanza Nazionale 5, 52

Alliance, the 4, 49

Amnesty International 67

Arcat-sida 68

Arreckx, Maurice 110

Assemblée nationale (see National Assembly)

Aubry, Marline 32, 185

Avril, Pierre 207

Badinter, Robert 110, 115

Balladur, Édouard 3, 10, 40–2, 44, 46, 48–9, 51–2, 54, 80, 99, 102, 151, 155, 175

Bank of France 11

Barre, Raymond 187, 199, 201

Barrot, Jacques 185

Barzach, Michelle 189, 194

Baumgartner, Frank R. 193, 198

Baur, Charles 51

Bay let, Jean-Michel 26

Bayrou, Francois 46, 48–9, 54

Bérégovoy, Pierre 80, 151, 185, 188, 194, 199, 201

Blanc, Jacques 51

Botton, Pierre 112

Boucheron, Jean-Michel 110

Bousquet, Jean 110

Bousquet, René 112

Bouygues, Martin 111–12

Boyer, Robert 218

Braibant, Guy 109–10

Brittan, Leon 171

Brocas, Louise 65

Bull Company 152

Cambadélis, Jean-Christophe 24

Carignon, Alain 110

Casetta, Louis-Yvonne 111

Centre des Démocrates Sociaux (CDS) 48

Chasse, Pêche, Nature et Traditions (CNPT) 5

Chesnais, François 217

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Books of Related Interest
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Incomparable Comparatist
• The Changing French Political System
• The Parties of the French ‘Plural Left’: An Uneasy Complementarity
• The Right: Divisions and Cleavages in fin de siècle France
• The New Social Movement Phenomenon: Placing France in Comparative Perspective
• Amendments to the French Constitution: One Surprise After Another
• The Fifth Republic: From the Droit de l'État to the État de droit?
• The Changing Role of French Local Government
• The Changing Dynamics of State-Society Relations in the Fifth Republic
• The Service Public Under Stress
• Restructuring Health Policy Networks: A French Policy Style?
• The End of French Exceptionalism?
• Abstracts
• About the Contributors
• Index