Author: J. Gaffney Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230274781 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 271
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Gaffney analyzes how de Gaulle came to power in 1958: The drama surrounding the Fourth Republic's collapse, and the focus upon an exceptional individual meant that de Gaulle was able to confer a particular style of leadership on the Fifth Republic. The five Presidents who came after him have each capitalized on their own political 'persona.'
Author: Christopher Flood Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135347956 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 326
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First Published in 2002. Myth theorists characterize myths as stories that possess the status of sacred truth within one or more social groups. Flood discusses how political myth is an ideologically marked narrative that purports to give a true account of a set of past, present, or predicted political events, widely accepted as valid in its essentials. Among the topics explored are: the historical line of political myth in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western political discourse; the characteristics of political myths and the forms they take in political life and the ends they serve; and the features of political ideologies that are most useful for understanding the nature of political myth.
Author: Craig Parsons Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501732080 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 264
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The quasi-federal European Union stands out as the major exception in the thinly institutionalized world of international politics. Something has led Europeans—and only Europeans—beyond the nation-state to a fundamentally new political architecture. Craig Parsons argues in A Certain Idea of Europe that this "something" was a particular set of ideas generated in Western Europe after the Second World War. In Parsons's view, today's European Union reflects the ideological (and perhaps visionary) project of an elite minority. His book traces the progressive victory of this project in France, where the battle over European institutions erupted most divisively. Drawing on archival research and extensive interviews with French policymakers, the author carefully traces a fifty-year conflict between radically different European plans. Only through aggressive leadership did the advocates of a supranational "community" Europe succeed at building the EU and binding their opponents within it. Parsons puts the causal impact of ideas, and their binding effects through institutions, at the center of his book. In so doing he presents a strong logic of "social construction"—a sharp departure from other accounts of EU history that downplay the role of ideas and ideology.
Author: John Gaffney Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1349197416 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 309
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An examination of the ways in which the French Left adapted, through a series of transformations, to the exigencies of presidentialism and the myths which underpin it. The study aims to illustrate the crucial role played by language in the political practice of representative democracy.
Author: John Gaffney Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317560779 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 293
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This book, originally published in 1991, assesses how attitudes, political orientations and social values changed during the five decades after the Second World War. The case studies in the book focus on key ‘sites’ in political culture: in France, on the extreme right, the cinema, the impact of media personalities and changes of political discourse; in Germany, on the decline of regional identities, the emergence of specific issues and the concern of political parties with the effectiveness of language. This interdisciplinary study provides new insights into the way French and German people see themselves.
Author: Susquehanna University Press Publisher: Susquehanna University Press ISBN: 9780945636106 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 276
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This series of bibliographical references is one of the most important tools for research in modern and contemporary French literature. No other bibliography represents the scholarly activities and publications of these fields as completely.
Author: O. Bange Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230286275 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 304
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This fresh look at the 1963 crisis in the western alliance following de Gaulle's veto of the British EEC application uses much new unpublished source material to offer a fascinating insight into the personal relationships of the western leaders. It challenges the orthodox view, showing that the ultimate breakdown came after Anglo-German and Anglo-American cooperation to ensure that de Gaulle was made the sole scapegoat, in order to isolate France within the EEC.
Author: European Consortium for Political Research, University of Essex. Compiled and ed. by the Central Services of the ECPR Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3111577554 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 656
Author: J. Gaffney Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137453915 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 215
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An analysis of the first half of François Hollande's five-year presidential term that examines the strengths and weaknesses of presidential politics following the Left's return to power in 2012 and puts forward an interpretation of the underlying nature of contemporary French politics, and the French Fifth Republic.
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Author: Christopher Flood
Author: Craig Parsons
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Author: Susquehanna University Press
Author: O. Bange
Author: European Consortium for Political Research, University of Essex. Compiled and ed. by the Central Services of the ECPR
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