Political Orders and Political Eras in France: Can There be a Sarkozy Era?
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Andrew Appleton
This article reviews evidence bearing upon the question of political orders and eras in recent French politics. It places this evidence against the legacy of revolutionary republicanism, with its idealized version of political identity and citizenship. Looking at social cleavages, intermediary organizations, and political institutions, the article finds that there has been a constant evolution over the course of the Fifth Republic. At the level of fundamental policy debate, there has also been an evolution, although rather more mitigated. The article concludes by considering the opportunities for a new political direction afforded to the incoming president elected in May 2007, Nicholas Sarkozy. It argues that the diminution of the power of the central state, coupled with a new sense of political competition at all levels, means that the possibility of a neoliberal era is very real.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Article
- Notes from a New Editor
- A Blair Era? The Political Order of Modern Britain
- From Collectivist Consensus to 21st Century Neoliberalism: Orders and Eras in Postwar Britain
- Where Are We in History? Political Orders and Political Eras in the Postwar U.S.
- The Grand Coalition and a Changing Political Order: Shifting Alliances and a New Era in German Politics
- Political Orders and Political Eras in France: Can There be a Sarkozy Era?
- Listening to the Coalition Merchants: Measuring the Intellectual Influence of Academic Scribblers
- The Utility of Staying on Message: Competing Partisan Frames and Public Awareness of Elite Differences on Political Issues
- Review
- Those Wild and Wooly Seventies
- The Great Society in Education: A Persistent National Consensus?
- Book Review: A Divider, Not a Uniter
- Poles Apart: The Effect of George W. Bush on the American Electorate--Review of A Divider, Not a Uniter: George W. Bush and the American People: The 2006 Election and Beyond
- Review of A Divider, Not a Uniter
- Saving Us from Liberals: A Commentary on Who Really Cares
