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French Politics and Society

Author : Alistair Cole

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 406 pages

File Size : 21,65 MB

Release : 2017-04-21

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1317376951

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French Politics and Society is the ideal companion for all students of France and French politics with a strong reputation for its lucidity and lively exposition of the French polity. This third edition remains a highly readable text and offers a broad, critical and comprehensive understanding of French politics. The book provides an excellent description of French institutions and ensures readers access to background information through discussing historical developments, political forces, public policy, and the evolution of important aspects of French society. Key updates for the third edition include: extensive updates including the Chirac, Sarkozy and Hollande presidencies; inclusion of constitutional and state reform coverage since 2008; the French party system and evolution of the French left and right; more on France’s positioning with regards to Brussels and the impact of the European economic crisis. French Politics and Society is essential reading for all undergraduates studying French politics, French studies, European studies or comparative politics.



Changing France

Author : P. Culpepper

Publisher : Springer

Page : 333 pages

File Size : 26,44 MB

Release : 2006-01-27

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0230584535

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How do European states adjust to international markets? Why do French governments of both left and right face a public confidence crisis? In this book, leading experts on France chart the dramatic changes that have taken place in its polity, economy and society since the 1980s and develop an analysis of social change relevant to all democracies.



French Politics and Society

Author : Alistair Cole

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 344 pages

File Size : 15,5 MB

Release : 2017-04-21

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 131737696X

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Book Description

French Politics and Society is the ideal companion for all students of France and French politics with a strong reputation for its lucidity and lively exposition of the French polity. This third edition remains a highly readable text and offers a broad, critical and comprehensive understanding of French politics. The book provides an excellent description of French institutions and ensures readers access to background information through discussing historical developments, political forces, public policy, and the evolution of important aspects of French society. Key updates for the third edition include: extensive updates including the Chirac, Sarkozy and Hollande presidencies; inclusion of constitutional and state reform coverage since 2008; the French party system and evolution of the French left and right; more on France’s positioning with regards to Brussels and the impact of the European economic crisis. French Politics and Society is essential reading for all undergraduates studying French politics, French studies, European studies or comparative politics.



Contemporary France

Author : D. L. Hanley

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 349 pages

File Size : 37,9 MB

Release : 2005-08-17

Category : History

ISBN : 1134974221

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Many recent studies of French politics have tended to concentrate on the French political system in isolation. Contemporary France aims to set the working of the French political system into its historical, social and economic context. The first section gives a succinct description of the main developments since 1944 in all major contexts - economy, society, domestic politics and foreign relations. The authors then analyse the economic, social and cultural structures of present-day France, and discuss the institutional framework of decision-making and the major political forces involved in it. There are also chapters on French external and defence policy and on the education system, all of which are set in the context of the political system as a whole. Aimed primarily at students of European history and politics or of French society and culture, the book assumes little knowledge in the social sciences and will be readily accessible to beginners in this field.



Contemporary France

Author : David Howarth

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 257 pages

File Size : 25,8 MB

Release : 2014-03-18

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 1444118870

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At least since the French Revolution, France has the peculair distinction of simultaneously fascinating, charming and exasperating its neighbours and foreign observers. Contemporary France provides an essential introduction for students of French politics and society, exploring contemporary developments while placing them in a deeper historical, intellectual, cultural and social context that makes for insightful analysis. Thus, chapters on France's economic policy and welfare state, its foreign and European policies and its political movements and recent institutional developments are informed by an analysis of the country's unique political and institutional traditions, distinct forms of nationalism and citizenship, dynamic intellectual life and recent social trends. Summaries of key political, economic and social movements and events are displayed as exhibits.



Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution

Author : Lynn Hunt

Publisher : Univ of California Press

Page : 274 pages

File Size : 47,42 MB

Release : 2016-10-17

Category : History

ISBN : 0520931041

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When this book was published in 1984, it reframed the debate on the French Revolution, shifting the discussion from the Revolution's role in wider, extrinsic processes (such as modernization, capitalist development, and the rise of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes) to its central political significance: the discovery of the potential of political action to consciously transform society by molding character, culture, and social relations. In a new preface to this twentieth-anniversary edition, Hunt reconsiders her work in the light of the past twenty years' scholarship.



France, Social Capital and Political Activism

Author : Francesca Vassallo

Publisher : French Politics, Society and Culture

Page : 230 pages

File Size : 28,56 MB

Release : 2010-01-27

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN :

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France, Social Capital and Political Activism deals with the theme of political participation in France, focusing on conventional and unconventional forms of political activism over the last three decades. Measures of social integration and political involvement are used to question the validity of social capital theory. The French model of political participation supports the interpretation that countries do not need necessarily to focus on the development of social capital to increase people's political involvement and consequently the quality of their participatory democracies.



My France

Author : Eugen Weber

Publisher : Harvard University Press

Page : 428 pages

File Size : 42,40 MB

Release : 1991

Category : History

ISBN : 9780674595767

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My France focuses on some of the most intriguing aspects of French life: politics, myths, personalities, public problems, actions, and conflicts. The topics Weber treats range from sports to religion, and include comments on folklore, national socialism, antisemitism, and famous Frenchmen.



French Women in Politics: Writing Power

Author : Raylene L. Ramsay

Publisher : Berghahn Books

Page : 344 pages

File Size : 28,49 MB

Release : 2003

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9781571810816

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Although more women in France have entered political life than ever before, the fact remains that there are fewer women representatives in the French parliament than there were after the Second World War. In a new and original approach, the author presents an overview and analysis of the emerging body of text by or on women who have held high political office in France. The argument is that writing about women and politics has not just described or reflected women's slow but now substantial entry into political life; it has played a major part in shaping the parity debate and its outcomes. Interviews with political women, such as Huguette Bouchardeau, Simone Veil or Edith Cresson, inserted in the text, demonstrate the emergence and circulation of a new common discourse focused on the issue of whether women in politics make or should make a difference. A close reading of the various texts examined in this book and their connection to new public counter-discourses in France suggest that a re-writing of power is indeed occurring.



Contemporary France

Author : David R. Howarth

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 240 pages

File Size : 42,7 MB

Release : 2003

Category : History

ISBN : 9780340741870

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Contemporary France is a handbook covering most of the major features of French politics and society. The book is up-to-date, exploring the latest political and social developments and trends while at the same time placing them in a deeper historical, intellectual, cultural and social context that makes for insightful analysis.