| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
decline and revival of the 'French model' |
| Alternative Intellectual Responsibility: |
ChaferTony., |
| Alternative Intellectual Responsibility: |
GodinEmmanuel., |
| Place of Publication: |
New York |
| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| Year of Publication: |
2010 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (xiii, 279 p.) |
| Series: |
French politics, society and culture series |
| Subject: |
National characteristics, French. - |
| Subject: |
Civilization. - |
| Subject: |
France. - |
| Subject: |
Politics and government. - |
| Subject: |
Social life and customs. - |
| Subject: |
History. - |
| Subject: |
HISTORY. - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230281394An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| Notes: |
Description based on print version record. |
| Summary: |
The End of the French Exception? seeks to understand how the French national polity has responded to external pressures such as Europeanization and globalization: what, if anything, makes French responses 'exceptional', or at least different, compared to those of other countries? How are we to understand these differences? And how might this analysis lead us to rethink or modify our hypothesis of French exceptionalism? The contributors to this collection analyse the ways in which the notion of the French exception has informed both academic analysis and political commentary on France today. Adopting a comparative and interdisciplinary approach it examines the resilience of the concept of French exceptionalism and evaluates its relevance in a changing domestic and global context. This highly topical volume also covers the Sarkozy presidency. |
| ISBN: |
9780230281394electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0230281397electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
hardback |
| ISBN: |
hardback |
| Content Note: |
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 La�icit�e: 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. |