Changing France The Politics that Markets Make

How do European states adjust to international markets? Why do French governments of both left and right face a crisis of public confidence? 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. Exploring immigration, industrial relations, generational conflict, and politics, they find the roots of discontent in the transformation of a society exemplifying a "new" Europe.

PEPPER D. CULPEPPER is Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. PETER A. HALL is Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies.  BRUNO PALIER is Chargé de Recherches the CNRS at the Centre d'études de la vie politique française de Sciences-po Paris (CEVIPOF), France.

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 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