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This new version of a leading textbook on French politics offers expert analysis of recent national and international events, discussing their significance for France itself as well as for Europe and the wider world. It covers a wide range of current challenges facing the country under the presidency of Emmanuel Macron and considers how issues such as immigration, multiculturalism and gender and sexual politics fit with wider patterns in global politics.
Sommario
1. Transformation and Resistance in French Politics.
2. Can the French Presidency Survive? Political Leadership in Crisis.
3. Understanding the Unexpected: Emmanuel Macron’s Victory in the 2017 French Presidential Election.
4. All Change? Partisan Realignment and Parliamentary Reform Under Macron.
5. 2007-2017. From Father to Daughter: Shifts and Constants in the le Pen Strategy.
6. The Catholics Strike Back? Conservative Catholics and the Reshaping of the French Right.
7. Old Thinking about New Families: Reproductive and Sexual Politics in a Technological Age.
8. Territorial Governance in France: Between Recentralization and Differentiation.
9. Racial prejudice in Multicultural France.
10. Socio-economic Policy and Governance: The Difficult and Contested Politics of Reform.
11. The Yellow Vests Movement: Causes, Consequences and Significance.
12. Is France Back (Again)? European Governance for a Global World.
13. In Whose Name? French Society, Terrorism and Foreign Policy.
Info autore
Helen Drake is Professor of French and European Studies and Director of the Institute for Diplomacy and International Governance (IDIG) at Loughborough University London.Alistair Cole is Professor of Politics and Head of the Department of Government and International Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University.Sophie Meunier is Senior Research Scholar at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, and Co-Director of the EU Program at Princeton.Vincent Tiberj is full professor and researcher at the Emile Durkheim Center, and Dean of Research at Sciences Po Bordeaux.
Riassunto
This new version of a leading textbook on French politics offers expert analysis of recent national and international events, discussing their significance for France itself as well as for Europe and the wider world. It covers a wide range of current challenges facing the country under the presidency of Emmanuel Macron and considers how issues such as immigration, multiculturalism and gender and sexual politics fit with wider patterns in global politics.
New to this Edition:
- New co-editor Helen Drake joins the book's experienced team of editors.
- Completely revised to take stock of the presidency of François Hollande, the first half of Emmanuel Macron's mandate, and to look forward to the future of France and its significance to European and global politics.
- Covers a range of new topics including the National Rally (formerly the National Front), immigration, multiculturalism and gender and sexual politics.
Prefazione
This textbook on French politics offers expert analysis of recent national and international events, discussing their significance for France itself as well as for Europe and the wider world. It covers a wide range of current challenges facing the country under the presidency of Emmanuel Macron and considers how issues such as immigration, multiculturalism and gender and sexual politics fit with wider patterns in global politics.
Testo aggiuntivo
An insightful and timely guide to the forces shaping contemporary France, and the challenges facing Emmanuel Macron.
