Synopses & Reviews
How do European states adjust to international markets? Why do French governments of both left and right face a public confidence crisis? In this book, leading experts on France chart the dramatic changes that have taken place in its polity, economy and society since the 1980s and develop an analysis of social change relevant to all democracies.
About the Author
PEPPER D. CULPEPPER is Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, USA. He has published extensively on the subject of institutional change in advanced capitalist countries, including the books
Creating Cooperation: The Politics of Human Capital Development in Europe and
The German Skills Machine.
PETER A. HALL is Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies. He is author or editor of many works on European politics, including Governing the Economy, Varieties of Capitalism and Developments in French Politics.
BRUNO PALIER is Chargé de Recherches the CNRS at the Centre d'études de la vie politique française de Sciences-po Paris (CEVIPOF), France. His research deals with globalization and change in national welfare states, and his books include Globalization and European Welfare States, Gouverner la Sécurité Sociale, and La Réforme des Retraites.
Table of Contents
Figures * Tables * Notes on the Contributors * Introduction: The Politics of Social Change in France--P.A.Hall * PART ONE * Capitalism, Coordination, and Economic Change: The French Political Economy since 1985--P.D.Culpepper * New Patterns of Industrial Relations and Political Action since the 1980s--M.Lallement * The Transformation of Corporate Governance in France--M.Goyer * PART TWO * The Long Good Bye to Bismarck? Changes in the French Welfare State--B.Palier * Different Nation, Same Nationhood: The Challenges of Immigrant Policy--V.Guiraudon * Social Generations, Life Changes and Welfare Regime Sustainability--L.Chauvel * PART THREE * The Government of the European Union and a Changing France--A.Smith * The Ongoing March of Decentralization within the Post Jacobin State--P.Le Galès * PART FOUR * The French Party System and the Crisis of Representation--G.Grunberg * Convergence, Fragmentation and Majority-Cycling in French Opinion--R.Balme