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Parties and the Party System in France

A Disconnected Democracy?

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  • © 2004

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Authors:
  1. Andrew Knapp

    1. Department of French Studies, The University of Reading, UK

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Part of the book series: French Politics, Society and Culture (FPSC)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Perspectives on Parties in France

    • Andrew Knapp
    Pages 1-33

  3. The Course of Electoral Politics

    • Andrew Knapp
    Pages 34-59

  4. Left and Right: Patterns of Co-operation and Conflict

    • Andrew Knapp
    Pages 60-92

  5. The Communist Collapse

    • Andrew Knapp
    Pages 93-119

  6. Influence on the Margins: France’s Far Left

    • Andrew Knapp
    Pages 120-132

  7. Vanished Supremacy: the Socialists Under Mitterrand and After

    • Andrew Knapp
    Pages 133-178

  8. The Green Dilemma

    • Andrew Knapp
    Pages 179-198

  9. The Centre Cannot Hold: the UDF and its Disintegration

    • Andrew Knapp
    Pages 199-233

  10. The End of Gaullism and the Birth of the President’s Party

    • Andrew Knapp
    Pages 234-271

  11. From the Barrel of a Gun: Chasse, Pêche, Nature, Traditions

    • Andrew Knapp
    Pages 272-288

  12. ‘Français d’abord!’ The Rise and Rise of the Front National

    • Andrew Knapp
    Pages 289-337

  13. Conclusion: a Disconnected Democracy?

    • Andrew Knapp
    Pages 338-378

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 380-423
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The French elections of 2002 broke all records for fragmentation, abstention and far-right protest voting, yet returned incumbent President Chirac in triumph and gave him a solid basis of parliamentary support. Parties and the Party System in France seeks to explain the paradox of France's current relationship to politics through a comprehensive analysis of French political parties and their interaction over the last fifty years, set against the two contexts of French history and of contemporary theories of parties and party systems.

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  • Department of French Studies, The University of Reading, UK

    Andrew Knapp

About the author

ANDREW KNAPP is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Reading, UK. He is the author of Le Gaullisme Après de Gaulle (1996), and co-author of Government and Politics in Western Europe (third edition, with Yves Mény) and of The Government and Politics of France (fourth edition, with Vincent Wright).

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