Newly available in paperback, Redefining the French Republic is an innovative work. Explicitly adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the book investigates continuity and change in contemporary French politics, society and culture. The chapters go beyond the familiar question of whether the Republic is acting in accordance with its vocation, to address the issue of whether that vocation is still viable. Drawing on contributions that reflect a variety of methodological approaches, ranging from theoretical speculations and modelling to the interpretation of fieldwork data, this study examines the dynamics of the relationship between the Republic and its constituencies, in the fields of political relations, territorial identities, social movements, public policy and foreign policy, and in each context juxtaposing what is perceived as the model for that relationship with the current reality. France in the twenty-first century is facing challenges that could not have been imagined a generation ago. The test for the Republic is whether it will resist the ongoing pressures for redefinition imposed by internal contestation and the emergence of powerful supranational and global forces, or whether it will find a way of adapting to these pressures while preserving a part of the vocation and ambition that make it characteristically French. The book concludes that, though the French polity remains characteristically different from other models of modern liberal democracy, internal and external pressures have challenged the republican model to the core.
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Redefining the French Republic is an innovative work. Explicitly adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the book investigates continuity and change in contemporary French politics, society and culture.
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1. The republican ideal and the reality of the Republic - Gino Raymond2. French politics in the twenty-first century - Alistair Cole and David Hanley3. Politics on the periphery: Brittany and republican France - Alistair Cole4. Urban governance and local democracy in France - Susan Milner5. From margin to mainstream? Establishing a community of gay citizens - Steve Wharton6.The citizen and the subject - Nadia Kiwan7. Social policy and the challenge to the ‘republican model’ - Jean-Paul Révauger8. The interventionist state: demise or transformation? - Mairi Maclean9.Exporting the republican model? A critique of France’s historic mission in Africa - Gordon Cumming
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Newly available in paperback, Redefining the French Republic is an innovative work. Explicitly adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the book investigates continuity and change in contemporary French politics, society and culture. The chapters go beyond the familiar question of whether the Republic is acting in accordance with its vocation, to address the issue of whether that vocation is still viable. Drawing on contributions that reflect a variety of methodological approaches, ranging from theoretical speculations and modelling to the interpretation of fieldwork data, this study examines the dynamics of the relationship between the Republic and its constituencies, in the fields of political relations, territorial identities, social movements, public policy and foreign policy, and in each context juxtaposing what is perceived as the model for that relationship with the current reality. France in the twenty-first century is facing challenges that could not have been imagined a generation ago. The test for the Republic is whether it will resist the ongoing pressures for redefinition imposed by internal contestation and the emergence of powerful supranational and global forces, or whether it will find a way of adapting to these pressures while preserving a part of the vocation and ambition that make it characteristically French. The book concludes that, though the French polity remains characteristically different from other models of modern liberal democracy, internal and external pressures have challenged the republican model to the core.
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'This is a very welcome volume, which all students of contemporary France will find useful and insightful. It offers an up-to-date and authoritative study, addressing very recent developments and providing some cogent and challenging analyses.' Professor Mike Kelly, University of Southampton
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780719071515
Publisert
2010-06-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Manchester University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
10 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
196

Biographical note

Alistair Cole is Professor of European Studies at Cardiff University. Gino Raymond is Reader in French Studies at the University of Bristol