The Oxford Handbook of French Politics provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of the French political system through the lens of political science. Found inside – Page 14The Jesuits opposed the " Gallican " tendency in church government which seemed to tempt the French kings to imitate ... It became the last stronghold of the Catholic League against Henry IV , but consistently the province bred thousands of foes to the centralized monarchy , whether Valois or ... and Liberals . A strong government could only grow in inverse proportion to the power of Spain . Now French ... Found inside – Page 265However , as was said before , had the Convention taken a firm stand , and effectively suppressed that centralizing power , the Commune of Paris , it would have gained the confidence of the country and enabled the Girondists , had they been ... Found inside – Page 50... and Louis XIV sought to consolidate their own authority and to centralize power with one aim in mind , to make France the ... is best - known for his remark " I am the state , " there were good reasons for his seeking a centralization of power . Found inside – Page 120THE CENTRALIZATION OF POLITICAL POWER Britain and France both have centralized , rather than federal , governments . British and French local governments are free to act only in areas where specific authority has been delegated to ... These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. Found inside – Page 615Although France provided a model for absolutism, even under the Sun King centralization of power was never complete. Until the era of revolutions, the French aristocracy remained a strong group in the state that could create trouble for the ... Found insideThis collection of essays explores an unjustly neglected tradition that is now experiencing a remarkable renaissance: French political liberalism. Found inside – Page 292REFORM OF FRENCH LOCAL GOVERNMENT : THE DECENTRALISATION PROCESS PARDEEP SACHDEVA " France needed a strong centralized power in order to become a whole . Now it needs to decentralize to keep from falling apart . Found inside – Page 48Legally the schools were open to all , but socially they operated on a system by which " men of a certain background and training " chose students The relatively large role of the French state and the centralization of government power gave ... In this invaluable reference work, the world’s foremost authorities on France’s political, social, cultural, and intellectual history explore the history and meaning of the French Republic and the challenges it has faced. By examining the relationship between the notaires, members of s significant French legal profession with deep roots in French history, and the state, Ezra Suleiman demonstrates that clientelism exists and may be more dangerous in a ... Found inside – Page 132French workers have had the legal right to strike since 1864 , and by long tradition the workers seem to know better than ... Albert Camus was an early editor ) pointed out that in the Fifth Republic's centralization of power France's labor unions ... The majority of these papers were originally published in Social Research, v. 56, no. 1, spring 1989. Found inside – Page 743period— centralizing authority in the face of widespread opposition— was confronted ... Given the obstacles to the centralization of power in France— strong ... Found inside – Page i"This important book advances a new interpretation of the Holy Roman Empire that promises to free analyses of the empire's inner workings from the burdens of contemporary political memory. Or learning the hard-won lessons of Acemoglu and Robinson’s breakthrough ideas on the interplay between inclusive political and economic institutions? Why Nations Fail will change the way you look at—and understand—the world. Found inside – Page 253Relying on the middle classes , the feudal kings centralized their power and organized the monarchical system . ... In the 13th century in England and in Spain , in the 14th century in France and in the Netherlands , the kings , in order to govern ... Found inside – Page 32 Decision - making institutions Designing durable political institutions has been the Achilles ' heel of politics in France dating back at least to the revolution . It may be easy to observe that the tradition of statism and centralized power is an old ... Found inside – Page 26De Tocqueville had insisted that this extraordinary centralization of power was well underway in the eighteenth century . 19 It was certainly accentuated by the revolution , particularly by the Jacobins and even more so by Napoleon , who , as ... Loughlin presents an overview of the theory and practice of subnational government in France and a detailed examination of the outcomes. Found inside – Page 46The monarchists argue that the maintenance of centralization in France is inevitable under a republican régime . All republican parties , say the monarchists , thirst for power ; and the retention of power is their primary object . Each party sees ... Found inside – Page 139Starting with William, the Norman kings of England centralized the power of the ... In France, the centralization of the power of the monarchy took much ... This book is an outcome of the round table conference held in 1984 in Switzerland. This book aims to find out whether French, one of the great languages of the world, is in crisis or not. Found inside – Page 500France : civil legislation in , democratic character of , 193 n .; education of women in , 199 ; democratic maxims in , 256 Franklin ... French Revolution , effect of : on morals of aristocracy , 209 ; on centralization of power , 304 , 352 Gambling ... Found insideFor the most part regional power has been minimal, but in the last thirty ... Despite these changes, France is still quite centralized compared with ... Found inside – Page 86which exercised considerable political power during the Middle Ages. ... vastly boosted the efforts of the French kings to centralize their power at home. Found inside – Page 94classically French vision of centralization that comes from Colbert by way of Turgo , che Convention , and Bonaparte . Odéanist libcralism ... from the periphery , civil society from the State , and local power from central power . ” The movement ... Found inside – Page 301590: Death in Paris of the sculptor Germain Pilon, supreme master of French sculpture between Mannerism and baroque. ... Within France he strengthened the centralized power of the king and established a structure of absolute rule ... These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. Found inside – Page 655It was not the formers of nineteenth - century France , power of the Enlightenment , which society pursued centralization even in was common throughout Western Eu its dreams . In Old Regime and the rope , but the cultural context that French ... Found inside – Page 62One cannot understand the deep roots of the centralization in French society without reference to this mentality inherited ... The most effective This conception of power inspired by a twofold ideal , egalitarian and monarchical , still influences ... Found inside – Page 135Substitute Washington DC for Paris and the states for the departments of France and we have in a nutshell the ... We learn here that for Simms the summum malum in politics is a centralized government absorbing all the power in a large and ... Found inside – Page 86which exercised considerable political power during the Middle Ages. ... vastly boosted the efforts of the French kings to centralize their power at home. The Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe analyses the state of play of democracy at the subnational level in the 27 member states of the EU plus Norway and Switzerland. Arguing that Tocqueville was fundamentally a social scientist rather than a political theorist, Elster emphasises Tocqueville's substantive and methodological insights. Found inside – Page 680... larger industrialized states of Western Europe — Britain , France , West Germany , and Italy — have been quite successful in creating centralized state power and in distributing it widely to citizens who desire access to the po - litical process . Found insideThe names and parties may have changed but the same ideas continue to impact French politics and western ideology today. This is a key book for an epoch whose importance lingers in current discourse. Found inside – Page 68Various causes may be assigned to this difference of attitude between France and Britain , but the main cause was , no ... of the centralization of power , the authorities of the French Government said : “ Conditions in France four or five hundred ... This book is essential reading for students and scholars of political theory and political philosophy, as well as general readers interested in the nature of modern democracy. The book concludes with forthright findings on a fragment executive struggling to steer a disparate and partially paralyzed institutional structure.The research findings offer precise cautionary recommendations to policy makers against the ... Found inside – Page 22... College de France , Paris Summarized in English by Stephen Davidson University of Minnesota After prophylactically ... This will be a study of how political power takes on visible or theatrical forms and imprints itself on the imagination or ... Beneath the ritual forms of the étiquette , a total redistribution of monarchical power was taking place , a vast centralization of power creating new instituAct II : The ... Found inside – Page 1Based on extensive fieldwork, Local Politics in Jordan and Morocco is an important contribution to Middle East studies and political science that challenges our understanding of authoritarian regimes’ survival strategies and resilience. Found inside – Page 159The later history of France has been dominated at one time by a trust in that self-sufficiency, at another by attempts at land expansion, and at a third by a desire to obtain control of ocean power; while always the centralizing eflect of Paris has ... The author applies the philosophies of Alexis de Tocqueville and Augustin Cochin to both historical and contemporary explanations of the French Revolution.