Name: The End of the French Exception? By T. Chafer
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The End of the French Exception?: Decline and Revival of the 'French Model' by T. Chafer

Analyzes the notion of the French exception and the ways in which it has informed both academic analysis and political commentary on France today. Adopting a comparative and interdisciplinary approach it examines the resilience of the notion of French exceptionalism and evaluates its relevance in a changing domestic and global context.

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'This is an extremely interesting book that makes an important contribution to scholarship. I think that students of contemporary French politics and sociology will find much to think about in this stimulating read.'

- West European Politics

About T. Chafer

DAVID BELL School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds UK TONY CHAFER Professor of Contemporary French Area Studies and Director of the Centre for European and International Studies Research at the University of Portsmouth, UK SUE COLLARD Sussex European Institute, UK HUGH DAUNCEY Newcastle University. UK HELEN DRAKE Loughborough University, UK EMMANUEL GODIN University of Portsmouth, UK ABOULAYE GUEYE University of Ottawa, Canada ROBERT HARMSEN University of Luxembourg NICK HEWLETT University of Warwick, UK RAYMOND KUHN Queen Mary, University of London, UK MARGARET MAJUMDAR University of Portsmouth, UK SUSAN MILNER University of Bath, UK MARTIN SCHAIN New York University, USA NATALYA VINCE Queen Mary, University of London, UK

Introduction; T.Chafer & E.Godin SECTION I: THE FRENCH STATE The French Exception: Rise and Fall of a Saint-Simonian Discourse; S.Collard Reviving the French Exception? Sarkozy, Authoritarian Populism and the Bonapartist Tradition; N.Hewlett Social Policy and the French 'Exceptional' Social Model; S.Milner 'L'exception Culturelle'; H.Dauncey SECTION II: CONFLICTS AND POLARIZATION The French Extreme Left and the Persistence of a Revolutionary Myth; D.Bell French Euroscepticism and the Construction of National Exceptionalism; R.Harmsen SECTION III: CITIZENSHIP AND THE REPUBLICAN MODEL French Immigration Policy in Comparative Perspective; M.A.Schain France, Islam and LaIcite: Colonial Exceptions, Contemporary Reinventions and European Convergence; N.Vince From Private Lives to Intimate Revelations: Politicians and the Media in Contemporary France; R.Kuhn SECTION IV: FRANCE AS A UNIVERSAL MODEL France in Europe, Europe in France: The Politics of Exceptionalism and their Limits; H.Drake Back to the Future? Franco-African Relations in the Shadow of France's Colonial Past; M.Majumdar & T.Chafer SECTION V: THE FRENCH EXCEPTION SEEN FROM ABROAD A View from the South: France in African Eyes: Universalism and Francophonie Reassessed; A.Gueye SECTION VI: CONCLUSION: FRENCH EXCEPTIONALISM RECONSIDERED French Exceptionalism and the Sarkozy Presidency; T.Chafer & E.Godin

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NPB9780230220782

ISBN 13

9780230220782

ISBN 10

0230220789

Title

The End of the French Exception?: Decline and Revival of the 'French Model' by T. Chafer

Author

T. Chafer

Series

French Politics, Society and Culture

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New

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Hardback

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year published

2010-06-01

Number of pages

279

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The End of the French Exception? T. Chafer

The End of the French Exception? by T. Chafer

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The End of the French Exception?: Decline and Revival of the 'French Model' by T. Chafer

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