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This book provides timely assessment of the extent to which Emmanuel Macron's declared presidential goal - to bring in radical transformation of French politics, indeed a revolution, albeit a democratic one - has been achieved.
Sommario
1. Introduction: How Disruptive can a French President Be? 2. Emmanuel Macron: The Paradoxes of a Disruptive Presidency 3. Democracy under the Macron Presidency: From Crisis of Representation to Crisis of Régime? 4. Political Corruption in France and the ‘Moralisation of Public Life’ Under Emmanuel Macron 5. Political Parties After the 2017 Earthquake 6. Macron, the Media and Political Communication 7. Towards a ‘Sovereign Europe’? Macron’s European Policy Between Conceptual Fireworks and National Interests 8. Macron and the Economy: A Labour Market Perspective 9. Emmanuel Macron’s Reform of the Higher Civil Service: Transforming the ‘State Nobility’ into ‘Can-Do Managers’? 10. Education under Emmanuel Macron: Some Market-Inspired Change and Much Continuity 11. A Paler Shade of Green: Emmanuel Macron’s Policies on the Environment and Climate Change 12. Protest and Repression During Emmanuel Macron’s Presidency 13. Macron’s Africa Policy: Promises, Practices and Path Dependencies 14. Macron’s New Beginning: Coming to Terms with the Colonial Past through Restitution, Recognition and Empathy 15. Recognition and Surveillance: Emmanuel Macron’s Religious Policy
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Susan Collard is Senior Lecturer in French Politics and Contemporary European Studies at the University of Sussex, UK.
Riassunto
This book provides timely assessment of the extent to which Emmanuel Macron’s declared presidential goal - to bring in radical transformation of French politics, indeed a revolution, albeit a democratic one - has been achieved.
This analysis of his presidency provides a framework for reflection on ‘immobilism’ in French politics, and how enduring transformation has remained much more elusive to most of those who promised it. With a wide a range of underlying, seemingly intractable and unresolved structural issues dominating French society, the book asks whether the young ‘disrupter’ has succeeded in reforming France where others had failed. What can we be learnt about the processes of political change from analysing Macron’s successes and failures in working through his ambitions for France?
This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and followers of French politics/studies and society, gender studies, media studies and more broadly European studies.
