Ebook: Politics in France

Tables, figures, map, and boxes -- Preface -- Toward normal politics -- "The hexagon": France's political and social geography -- History I: the long term -- History II: the Fifth Republic -- Political culture and participation -- Political parties and elections -- The state -- Domestic public policy -- France and Europe -- Foreign policy -- Conclusion: Sarkoland.;France has shifted toward more normal politics since the mid 1960s. Hauss's text looks beyond de Gaulle & revolution tracing France's historical development up to the present and describing with fresh insight its political culture, parties, interest groups, and institutional system, as well as its place in the EU and the larger global economic order. Hauss offers lively analysis of recent events and issues, including the May 2007 presidential elections; policy issues like immigration and the assimilation of non-Westerners into the French cultural and political landscape and the impact of the EU on France's economic policies.