The end of the French exception?:decline and revival of the 'French model'
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Group Author: | ; |
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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Publisher Address: | New York |
Publication Dates: | 2010. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
French politics, society and culture series |
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Carrier Form: | xiii, 279 p.: ; 23 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780230220782 (hardback) 0230220789 (hardback) 1819945502 9781819945508 |
Index Number: | K565 |
CLC: | K565.03 |
Call Number: | K565.03/E565 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-270) and index. The French exception: rise and fall of a Saint-Simonian discourse / Sue Collard -- Reviving the French exception? Sarkozy, authoritarian populism and the Bonapartist tradition / Nick Hewlett -- Social policy and France's 'exceptional' social model / Susan Milner -- L'exception culturelle / Hugh Dauncey -- The French extreme left and the persistence of a revolutionary myth / David Bell -- French Euroscepticism and the construction of national exceptionalism / Robert Harmsen -- French immigration policy in comparative perspective / Martin A. Schain -- France, Islam and Laïcité: colonial exceptions, contemporary reinventions and European convergence / Natalya Vince -- From private lives to intimate revelations: politicians and the media in contemporary France / Raymond Kuhn -- France, Europe and the limits of exceptionalism / Helen Drake -- Back to the future? Franco-African relations in the shadow of France's colonial past / Margaret A. Majumdar, Tony Chafer -- A view from the South. France in African eyes: universalism and Francophonie reassessed / Abdoulaye Gueye -- French exceptionalism and the Sarkozy presidency / Tony Chafer, Emmanuel Godin. |