1st Edition

France’s Political Institutions at 50

Edited By Emiliano Grossman, Nicolas Sauger Copyright 2010
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

Fifty years after the creation of the Fifth Republic, French politics is undergoing profound changes. The election of Nicolas Sarkozy has announced a general review of the French political system. A special committee – the comité constitutionnel – is currently drafting a catalogue of potential reforms. Debates focus on issues like presidentialization, parliamentary scrutiny of the... Read more

1. Introduction: The Institutions of the French Republic at 50  Emiliano Grossman and Nicolas Sauger

2. Duverger, Semi-presidentialism and the Supposed French Archetype  Robert Elgie

3. The President’s Choice? Government and Cabinet Turnover under the Fifth Republic  Emiliano Grossman

4. The French National Assembly’s Oversight of the Executive: Changing Role, Partisanship and Intra-Majority Conflict  Sebastien G. Lazardeux

5. Party Discipline and Coalition Management in the French Parliament  Nicolas Sauger

6. MPs under the Fifth Republic: Professionalisation within a Weak Institution  Olivier Costa and Eric Kerrouche

7. The French Electoral System and its Effects  Andre Blais and Peter John Loewen

8. The Evolution of the French Political Space and Party System  Simon Bornschier and Romain Lachat

9. The Politics of Constitutional Veto in France: Constitutional Council, Legislative Majority and Electoral Competition  Sylvain Brouard

10. Public Budgeting in the French Fifth Republic: The End of La Republique des partis?  Frank R. Baumgartner, Martial Foucault and Abel Francois

11. The End of Ambiguity? Presidents versus Parties or the Four Phases of the Fifth Republic  Emiliano Grossman and Nicolas Sauger

Biography

Emiliano Grossman and Nicolas Sauger are both senior research fellows at CEVIPOF / Sciences Po and lecturers at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. Grossman’s research concentrates on economic interest groups and political institutions. Sauger has specialised on political parties and electoral systems. Their work is published in journals like the European Journal of Political Research, the Journal of Common Market Studies, the Journal of European Public Policy, West European Politics or the Revue Française de Science Politique.