Structures of Power in Modern France

ISBN-13: 9780333670880 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 184 str.

Opis

Traditionally, France has been viewed as host to a unique set of tensions between the centre and the periphery, dating back to the Revolution and beyond, which has shaped its structures of power and marked its evolution as a modern society. This survey provides a fresh overview of those tensions between a centralising state and the constituencies challenging it, and asks whether that model can remain viable or whether it is not, in fact, undergoing a process of profound change.

Recenzje

... there is a good discussion of frequently neglected topics, such as the press, education, religion, and the politics of language. Choice

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Abbreviations and Acronyms Notes on Contributors Introduction The President: Still a 'Republican Monarch?'; G.G.Raymond The Party System: the End of Old Certainties; A.Cole Trade Unions; a New Civil Agenda?; S.Milner The Limits of Economic Dirigisme and Collusion; G.Jones The Press, the PAF and the Decline of Tutelage; J.Forbes Education: from Confessionalism to Consumerism; G.G.Raymond The State and Religion: Rethinking LaIcité; G.Salemohamed Language and Power; D.Ager Decentralizing or Deconstructing the Republic?; G.G.Raymond Index

O autorze

DENNIS AGER Professor of French and Pro-Vice Chancellor of Aston University ALISTAIR COLE Lecturer, Politics Department, University of Keele JILL FORBES Professor of French, University of Bristol GEORGE JONES Head of French Studies, European Business School, London SUSAN MILNER Lecturer in French, University of Bath