Changing France

The Politics That Markets Make
2008. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-230-20447-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

Reihe: French Politics, Society and Culture

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Culpepper, P.

Hall, P.

Palier, B.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures Tables Notes on the Contributors Introduction: The Politics of Social Change in France; P.A.Hall PART ONE Capitalism, Coordination, and Economic Change: The French Political Economy since 1985; P.D.Culpepper New Patterns of Industrial Relations and Political Action since the 1980s; M.Lallement The Transformation of Corporate Governance in France; M.Goyer PART TWO The Long Good Bye to Bismarck? Changes in the French Welfare State; B.Palier Different Nation, Same Nationhood: The Challenges of Immigrant Policy; V.Guiraudon Social Generations, Life Changes and Welfare Regime Sustainability; L.Chauvel PART THREE The Government of the European Union and a Changing France; A.Smith The Ongoing March of Decentralization within the Post Jacobin State; P.Le Galès PART FOUR The French Party System and the Crisis of Representation; G.Grunberg Convergence, Fragmentation and Majority-Cycling in French Opinion; R.Balme

Über Autor(innen)

RICHARD BALME Professor of Political Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
SUZANNE BERGER Raphael Dorman and Helen Starbuck Professor of Political Science, MIT, Cambridge, USA
LOUIS CHAUVEL Professor of Sociology, Sciences-Po Paris, France
MICHEL GOYER Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK
GÈRARD GRUNBERG Deputy Director and Vice-Provost for Research, Sciences-Po Paris (Institut d'Etudes Politiques), France
VIRGINIE GUIRAUDON Research Fellow, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Lille, France
MICHEL LALLEMENT Professor of Sociology, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France
PATRICK LE GALÈS CNRS Senior Research Fellow, CEVIPOF and Associate Professor of Politics and Sociology, Sciences Po, Paris, France
ANDY SMITH Research Fellow, CERVL-Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux, France