The end of the French exception?:decline and revival of the 'French model'

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Group Author: Godin Emmanuel.; Chafer Tony.
Published: Palgrave Macmillan,
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.