French Fifth Republic at Fifty

SYLVAIN BROUARD is Senior Research Fellow FNSP at SPIRIT, Sciences Po Bordeaux, France, having worked previously at the Center of Political Research of Sciences-Po (CEVIPOF). His research focuses on lawmaking in Western democracies and on minority politics. He published a breakthrough book on French citizens from Africa and Turkey in 2005, and his most recent book is about the French referendum on the ECT (2007). He is currently co-directing in the French Agendas Project. ANDREW APPLETON is Associate Professor of Political Science at Washington State University, USA, and the Director of the Global Studies Program. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from New York University, an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, and a B.Soc.Sci. from the University of Birmingham. He is the editor (with Daniel S. Ward) of State Party Profiles, and the author of numerous articles and book chapters. He co-edits, with Robert Elgie, the Palgrave journal French Politics. AMY G. MAZUR is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Washington State University, USA. Her most recent books include: Theorizing Feminist Policy (2002); and Politics, Gender and Concepts (editor with Gary Goertz, 2008). She is co editor of Political Research Quarterly and co-convener of the Research Network on Gender Politics and the State and of the French Politics Group of the APSA.

• France the Unexceptional; A.Appleton PART I: DECISION-MAKING INSTITUTIONS Studying the Presidency under the Fifth Republic: Past Approaches and Future Perspectives; R.Elgie Governments under the Fifth Republic: The Changing Instruments/Weapons of Executive Control; E.Grossman Gone with the Wind? The National Assembly under the Fifth Republic; E.Kerrouche The French Party System: Fifty Years of Change; N.Sauger The Constitutional Council: The Rising Regulator of French Politics; S.Brouard Defence and Armed Forces: The End of the Nuclear Monarchy?; B.Irondelle France, Europe and the World: Foreign Policy and the Political Regime of The Fifth Republic; R.Balme PART II: INSTITUTIONS AND STATE-SOCIETY RELATIONS Economic Interventionism in the Fifth Republic; B.Clift Patterns of Public Budgeting in the French Fifth Republic: From Hierarchical Control To Multi-Level Governance; F.Baumgartner , A.François & M.Foucault Rethinking Social Protection in the Fifth Republic: 'Buttressed Liberalization' in an Age of Austerity; M.Vail Local/Regional Governments and Centre-Periphery Relations in the Fifth Republic; P.le Galès & G.Pinson The Demise of Statism? Associations and the Transformation of Interest Intermediation in France; C.Woll PART III: THE REPUBLICAN UNIVERSAL MODEL AS INSTITUTION Republican Universalism Faces the Feminist Challenge: The Continuing Struggle for Gender Equality; E.Lépinard & A.Mazur Race, Racism and Anti-Discrimination in France; A.C.d'Appolina