French Socialism in a Global Era

A valuable edition to the Politics, Culture and Society in the New Europe series, this fascinating book seeks to explain and explore the fortunes of the French Socialist party. The party is employed as a test case to examine the veracity of the ''crisis of social democracy'' literature and its predictions for the future direction and fortunes of social democratic parties. Ben Clift extends his analysis in an attempt to define the wider relationship between social democracy and globalization. Topics covered in this seminal account include the ideological redefinition in the French parti socialiste, as well as the changing political economy of French socialism. After an in-depth party profile of the Jospin government, Clift concludes by investigating the political economy of the French Socialist electoral strategy.>

List of contents

1. The Crisis of Social Democracy
2. Globalization and Social Democracy
3. The Historical and Institutional Context of French Socialism
4. Organisational Change in the Parti Socialiste in the 1990s
5. Ideological Redefinition in the PS
6. The Changing Political Economy of French Socialism - Neo-Keynesianism Resurgent
7. The Policy Profile of the Jospin Government
8. The Political Economy of French Electoral Strategy
Conclusion
Bibliography

About the author

Ben Clift is Professor of Political Economy, and an Associate Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, Warwick University, UK.

Ben Clift is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Ben Clift, Clift Ben
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2005
• EAN: 9780826486929
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-8692-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Politics, Culture and Society; Politics, Culture and Society; Politics, Culture & Society in the New Europe
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Political Parties, France, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Political parties and party platforms