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Tables of Contents for Developments in French Politics 2
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Maps and Tables
viii
Preface
ix
Notes on the Contributors
xi
List of Abbreviations
xiii
Political Developments in their Historical Institutional Context
1
22
Alain Guyomarch
Howard Machin
The Institutional Inheritance of the Fifth Republic
9
9
A Second Constitutional Framework: The European Union?
18
5
Electoral Politics and Party Competition
23
27
Alain Guyomarch
Major Trends in Opinion and Electoral Behaviour
24
7
The Voters and Voting Behaviour
31
6
The Parties and the Evolving Party System
37
8
Political Context and Public Opinion
45
4
Concluding Remarks
49
1
Interest Representation and the Politics of Protest
50
18
John T. S. Keeler
Peter A. Hall
The Range of Organized Interests
51
9
Group-State Relations: Access, Influence and Protest
60
5
New Trends and Prospects
65
3
Political Leadership
68
24
Howard Machin
French Leadership in its International, European and Local Contexts
70
6
The Institutional Allocation of Responsibilities
76
7
Power Resources for Leadership within and amongst the Parties
83
3
Politics and Socio-Economic Leaders
86
1
New Technologies and Political Communication
87
2
Societal Expectations and Leadership Personalities
89
2
Concluding Remarks
91
1
Territorial Politics after Decentralization
92
24
Jonah D. Levy
A Partial, Limited Revolution
94
1
The Achievements of Decentralization
95
2
Problems in the Provinces
97
1
Regional Weakness and Sub-National Rivalries
98
2
Municipal Competition for Mobile Investors
100
2
The Limits of Local Democracy
102
2
Paris in the Provinces: The Post-Defferre State
104
5
Completing the 'Revolution'? Problems of Reform
109
2
Decentralization under the Jospin Government
111
5
The Europeanization of Policy-Making
116
21
Alain Guyomarch
Institution Building and Adapting Policy Processes
118
11
Transposing and Implementing European Policies in France
129
6
Concluding Remarks
135
2
Retooling the State Machine?
137
19
Howard Machin
The Institutional Inheritance: Napoleonic Myth and Muddled--Through Reality
138
8
Judicialization
146
5
Public Service and New Public Management
151
4
Concluding Remarks
155
1
Foreign and Security Policy in the Post-Cold World
156
16
Jolyon Howorth
The Foreign Policy-Making Process: domaine reserve?
156
5
France, NATO and the European Pillar
161
3
France, Germany and Europe
164
2
France and the Arab World: Towards European Brokerage?
166
2
France and Africa: The End of an Era?
168
2
Conclusion: France, America and the Challenge of Globalism
170
2
The Evolution of Economic Policy
172
19
Peter A. Hall
The Post-War Modernization Strategy
173
1
The Years of Transition
174
2
A Neo-Liberal Modernization Strategy
176
4
Contemporary Economic Policy-Making
180
6
The Coming Challenges
186
5
Social Policy in the Age of High Unemployment
191
20
Jonah D. Levy
Unemployment and the Expansion of the Welfare State
193
5
From Tinkering to Retrenchment: Welfare Reform in the 1990s
198
9
The Challenges Ahead
207
4
The Politics of Immigration
211
16
Patrick Weil
The Ambiguous History of Immigration Policy
212
9
Integration of Immigrants in France
221
6
Politics and Policy in Education
227
17
John S. Ambler
Power in Education: Four Case Studies
228
12
The Education Policy Agenda
240
4
Corruption: From 'Scandals' to 'Affairs'
244
13
Veronique Pujas
Corruption in the 1980s and 1990s
246
2
Exposure of Corruption and the Political Response
248
3
Corruption: A Mirror Image of the Weaknesses of the Political System?
251
6
In Search of an Evanescent European Identity
257
29
Jack Hayward
The Nationality--Universality Nexus
257
3
Europe: A Receding Mobilizing Myth
260
3
Frozen Partisan Cleavages
263
3
Residual Communism
266
3
Socialist Reformism without Socialism
269
4
The Greens: From Protest Movement to Political Party
273
2
The Fragmented Right: Neo-Gaullism and Neo-Liberalism
275
4
Populist Nationalism: An Ephemerally Resurgent Extreme Right
279
3
Beyond the Demise of French Distinctiveness
282
4
Guide to Further Reading
286
5
Bibliography
291
14
Index
305