Conflict and Rhetoric in French Policymaking

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Baumgartner vividly illustrates how such variables as degree of conflict and environment combine with the strategic behavior of policy makers to determine the nature of participation and policy outcomes. . . . Specialists in both French politics and comparative public policy will thus find this book to be a significant and provocative contribution to the literature. * <i>American Political Science Review</i> * Baumgartner's study is an excellent one that merits wide notice. . . . as it constitutes an important study both of agenda-setting that is in many ways cross-nationally applicable and of an increasingly important domain of public policy in the advanced, industrial democracies. It is also, simply, a fine book on France. * <i>Journal of Politics</i> * Baumgartner's book should receive the attention of anyone interested in theories of political decision making. The research is strongly theoretically oriented; . . . his approach is highly innovative. * <i>Social Science Quarterly</i> *