Acronyms and Abbreviations Preface CHAPTER 1 Introduction: The End of French Exceptionalism France: Changing Yet Steadfast France and Europe France as a Power Economic and Social Problems in France Today France as It Really Is Endnotes CHAPTER 2 Political Culture and Public Attitudes Four Images of France on Which to MeditateFrench "Exceptionalism": History and Genealogy The Fading of French Exceptionalism: Decline or Renewal? The Legitimate Republic: One Thousand Years in the Making Watershed: The Eclipse of Marxism in French Political CultureThe Muting of Class and Class Conflict French Youth and the Political Culture Religion and the Political Culture Immigrants, the Problem of Racism and the Question of French National Identity The Changing Political Culture of French Protest After Exceptionalism, What? Endnotes CHAPTER 3 The Logic of French Institutions The Fifth Republics Institutions The President and the OthersPresident and Prime Minister: Ambiguity and the Threat of Anarchy The Nature and Future of "Cohabitation" The Condition of Parliament in the Fifth RepublicThe Senate The National Assembly The European Parliament and FrenchParliamentary LifeJudicial Review: France Changes, but SlowlyDecentralization: A Socialist or a French Success? Mitterrands Constitutional Reforms On Using the Referendum Well or Badly Maastricht and French Institutions ConclusionEndnotesCHAPTER 4 Political Parties: The Centering of Right and Left Consensus or Impotence? French Parties TodayThe Presidential Parties: PS, RPR, and UDF The Nonpresidential Parties Conclusion Endnotes CHAPTER 5 Elections and Electoral Strategies Ambiguous Majorities: The Gaming of Presidential and Parliamentary Elections The Logic of French ElectionsAs the Partisan Wheel Turns Rising Abstentions: A Normal Aspect of Recenteredness? The European Parliament and French Parties Elections, Centrism, and Consensus The 1993 Parliamentary Elections and Cohabitation Conclusion Endnotes CHAPTER 6 Interests and GroupsThe French "Partenaires Sociaux" and the Single European Market French Business Today and the German Model Workers and the Decline of Labor Unions French Farmers, the CAP and the GATT SOS-Racism: Human Rights Activism in the Post-Marxian Age Conclusion Endnotes
