Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Key to Abbreviations xv
5. Introduction The Impact of France on the Fifth Republic 1
6. Government
7. The Constitution of 1958, Its Raison D’étre and How It Evolved 11
8. The Collective Political Executive Under the Gaullists 25
9. Parliament in the Fifth Republic 57
10. Administrative Reform and the Problem of Decentralization In the Fifth Republic 79
11. II. Politics
12. The RPR: From a Rassemblement To the Gaullist Movement 91
13. Gaullism Abandoned, Or The Costs Of Success 112
14. Centrism in the Fifth Republic: An Attitude in Search of an Instrument 123
15. The Effects of Twenty Years of Gaullism on the Parties of the Left 146
16. The French Left in the Fifth Republic 172
17. The French Left and the Transformation of French Society: Sisyphus Revisited 192
18. III. The Economy
19. The French Economy Under The Fifth Republic, 1958— 1978 204
20. The Gaullist Model of Economic Modernization 227
21. Twenty Years of the Gaullist Economy 240
22. The Interventionist Temptation: Financial Structure And Political Purpose 252
23. The Corporatist Dynamic of Agricultural Modernization in the Fifth Republic 271
24. Lame Ducks and National Champions: Industrial Policy In The Fifth Republic 292
25. Energy Policies of the Fifth Republic: Autonomy Versus Constraint 311
26. IV. Society and Culture
27. Gaullism and Organized Labor Two Decades of Failure? 330
28. Gaullism and Collective Bargaining: The Effect of the Fifth Republic on French Industrial Relations 348
29. The Fifth Republic and Education: Modernity, Democracy, Culture 367
30. France’s Cultural Anxieties Under Gaullism The Cultural Revolution Revisited 382
31. V Foreign and Defense Policies
32. The Fifth Republic in Europe 398
33. French Disarmament and Arms Control Policy: The Gaullist Heritage in Question 412
34. Consensus, Confusion, and Confrontation in France: The Left in Search of a Defense Policy 430
35. Conclusion: The Impact of the Fifth Republic on France 450
36. Appendix: Dialogue, Michel Debré and Conference Participants 494
37. Contributor 510
38. Index 512