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The Government and Politics of France

This fifth edition of The Government and Politics of France offers a fully revised, updated and comprehensive view of the contemporary French political scene based on the work of the leading specialist on France of his generation. It covers such events as the dramatic presidential election of 2002 and includes a major new chapter on France and European integration, culminating in the historic rejection of the European constitutional treaty by French voters in May 2005.

Although particular attention is paid to the most recent period, the book covers the whole of the Fifth Republic in depth, from its heroic beginnings under de Gaulle to the period of reverses and defeats sustained by successive governments under the Mitterrand and Chirac presidencies. The contemporary period is placed firmly in the context of those long-standing political traditions which have maintained their power to shape French political behaviour to this day.

The long view supplied in this book allows a unique understanding of how the dynamic, confident economic and political power of the early de Gaulle years has become the more hesitant and troubled nation of the early twenty-first century and of the points of continuity that underlie this development.

The Government and Politics of France is the authoritative guide to French politics and is essential for undergraduates and postgraduates with interests in French politics, European studies and political science.

Andrew Knapp is Professor of French Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Reading. He is author of Parties and the Party System in France (2004), LeGaullisme aprs de Gaulle (1996), and, with Yves Mny, Government and Politics inWestern Europe (third edition, 1998).

The late Vincent Wright was Official Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and one of the worlds leading specialists on French and European Government.

The Government and Politics
of France

Fifth edition

Andrew Knapp and Vincent Wright

First published 2006
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor and Francis Group, an informa business

2006 Andrew Knapp & Vincent Wright

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2006.

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All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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ISBN10: 0-415-35733-0 (hbk)
ISBN10: 0-415-35732-2 (pbk)
ISBN10: 0-203-40260-X (ebk)

ISBN13: 978-0-415-35733-3 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-415-35732-6 (pbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-203-40260-3 (ebk)

To the memory of Vincent Wright

Figures and maps

Figures

The heart of the Fifth Republic Constitution

The Fifth French Republic, 19582005: a chronological framework

Votes for the Communist Party, 19562004

Votes for Socialist parties, 19562004

Votes for the far Left, 19622004

Votes for ecology movements, 19742004

Votes for Gaullist parties, 19582004

Votes for the non-Gaullist moderate Right, 19582004

Votes for the extreme Right, 19582004

The party system of the Fourth Republic: a simplified view

Maps

Presidential elections, 1974: Giscard dEstaing, second ballot

Presidential elections, 1995: Chirac, second ballot

France: dpartements and regions

Tables

(see also )

Left, Right, and the tradition of political division in France

France: rgimes since 1789

Constitutional amendments since 1958

Presidents of the Fifth Republic

Prime ministers of the Fifth Republic

Presidential popularities, October 1978June 2005

Prime ministerial popularities, October 1978May 2005

Party and majority support for presidents under the Fifth Republic

Percentage of ministers without any parliamentary seat on their appointment, 19582005

Use of Articles 443 and 493 in the National Assembly, 19582004

Amendments in the National Assembly, 196873 and 19972002

France: party membership since 1945

Results of National Assembly elections under the Fifth Republic

Results of presidential elections (first ballots), 19652002

Results of presidential elections (second ballots), 19652002

Party control of towns of over 30,000 inhabitants, 19712001

The growth of the right-wing ruling coalition, 195881

Bipolar multipartism: the party system of the Fifth Republic

The two-ballot system: alliances rewarded

The two-ballot system: isolation penalised

The strength of major trade unions in France

Working days lost through strikes in France, 196381

Working days lost through strikes in France, 19822001

Local budgets, 1984 and 2001

Notables in the National Assembly, 1978, 1988 and 2002

The political composition of the Constitutional Council

Public confidence in the justice system in Europe, 1999

A chronology of the EU, 19502005

Attitudes to European integration in France and Europe, 19802004

French fears of Europe, spring 2004

Turnout at European elections in France and EEC/EU, 19792004

Preface to thefifth edition

Much of the new material in this edition is framed by two polling days: 21 April 2002, when Frances voters surprised themselves and the world by putting a candidate of the extreme Right into the second ballot of a presidential election, and 29 May 2005, when they rejected the constitutional treaty signed by twenty-five European leaders the previous year. The former is incorporated chiefly into the chapters on party politics, the latter into an entirely new chapter (Chapter 14) on France and Europe which I had already decided to add to the text, and drafts of which David Goldey and Wilfrid Knapp were again kind enough to read. All other chapters have been revised and updated to varying degrees.

France in 2005 was prey to a bout of (not wholly unfounded) pessimism about its own long-term future, and this will doubtless appear in some of the following pages. But it has not stopped being one of Europes most enjoyable countries to study; it is to be hoped that the rest of the book reflects this too, as Vincent Wrights earlier editions did so well.

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