| Description | | - Up-to-date - covers the results of the 2002 presidential and legislative elections
- Covers all the core elements of a course on French political institutions
- Written by one of the most well-known contemporary experts on French politics
- Includes tables, figures and exhibits which set out the information clearly
- Includes comparisons to similar institutions in other political systems, helping readers who are new to French politics by relating these to more familiar systems
| | A core text for undergraduates studying the political institutions of contemporary France. It provides an accessible introduction to the government and politics of France by focusing on the institutions of the Fifth Republic. It contains key information about the legal and constitutional powers of the country's political institutions and party system, about the procedures and practices of the
decision-making process and about the general development of the political system since 1958. |
Readership: Undergraduate students in studying French Politics as a separate module or as part of a course on Comparative Politics, European Politics or West European Politics.
| Contents |
1.
The Fifth Republic
2.
The Party System
3.
The State
4.
The Executive
5.
The Bureaucracy
6.
The Legislature
7.
The Judiciary
8.
Local Government
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors | Robert Elgie, Paddy Moriarty Professor of Government and International Studies, Dublin City University
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