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Mitterrand’s Economic and Social Policy in Perspective

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Economic and social policy in the Mitterrand era had many faces. The president, not as familiar with economic affairs as his predecessor Giscard, had no clear-cut vision or doctrine on economics himself. Nor was there any continuity. Over fourteen years, Mitterrand worked with seven prime ministers, each of them giving his (or her) personal touch, and was forced into two periods of shared power with a right-wing majority (cohabitation) when his Socialist Party lost parliamentary elections. This produced a pattern of changing and partly contradictory policies over the whole period.

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Uterwedde, H. (1998). Mitterrand’s Economic and Social Policy in Perspective. In: Maclean, M. (eds) The Mitterrand Years. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26395-0_8

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