Politics in France
Tables, figures, map, and boxes -- Preface -- Toward normal politics -- "The hexagon": France's political and social geography -- History I: the long term -- History II: the Fifth Republic -- Political culture and participation -- Political parties and elections -- The state -- Domest...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Washington, D.C
CQ Press
2008
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Tables, figures, map, and boxes -- Preface -- Toward normal politics -- "The hexagon": France's political and social geography -- History I: the long term -- History II: the Fifth Republic -- Political culture and participation -- Political parties and elections -- The state -- Domestic public policy -- France and Europe -- Foreign policy -- Conclusion: Sarkoland. Tables, figures, map, and boxes -- Preface -- Oward normal politics -- Why normal politics matters -- Thinking systematically, thinking systemically -- Using this book -- Key concepts -- Key people, entities, and events -- Questions for discussion -- "The hexagon": France's political and social geography -- The hexagon -- From diversity to homogeneity to diversity -- The new French revolution -- The European and global contexts -- Conclusion -- Key concepts -- Key people, entities, and events -- Questions for discussion -- History I: the long term -- Transformations -- The traditional syndrome -- The multiparty system -- Crisis and compromise -- Explosion -- Conclusion -- Key concepts -- Key people, entities, and events -- Questions for discussion -- History II: the Fifth Republic -- De Gaulle: routinizing charisma -- Pompidou and Giscard: steps toward normality -- Mitterrand: the U-turn -- Chirac: from normal to banal -- The next generation -- Key concepts -- Key people, entities, and events -- Questions for discussion -- Political culture and participation -- Political culture -- Participation beyond the ballot box -- Conclusion: the people and normal politics -- Key concepts -- Questions for discussion -- Political parties and elections -- Bucking the trends ... at least for a while -- The major parties -- Who votes for whom? -- Why this happened -- The stakes of 2007 -- Key concepts -- Key people, entities, and events -- Questions for discussion -- The state -- The constitution -- Legislative-executive relations in practice -- Using all the constitutional levers: the early years -- The iron triangle -- Normal politics in normal times -- Key concepts -- Key people, entities, and events -- Questions for discussion -- Domestic public policy -- Social services -- Markets and the logic of the interventionist state -- Conclusion: Guy de Rothschild and the passing of a generation -- Key concepts -- Questions for discussion -- France and Europe -- The question of sovereignty -- The European Union -- How France has dealt with Europe -- The impact of the European Union on France -- Conclusion: a fact of life -- Key concepts -- Key people, entities, and events -- Questions for discussion -- Foreign policy -- The historical context -- The Gaullist legacy -- De Gaulle: myth and reality -- Change amid continuity -- Chirac and the case of Iraq -- Conclusion: we're number thirty-four -- Key concepts -- Key people, entities, and events -- Questions for discussion -- Conclusion: Sarkoland -- Sarkoland -- And the left? -- Normal politics -- Key people, entities, and events -- Questions for discussion |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XX, 281 S. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 9781568026701 978-1-56802-670-1 1568026706 1-56802-670-6 |