GRAEME HAYES is a Lecturer in Politics and Cultural Studies at the Department of Modern Languages, Nottingham Trent University. In 2001, the Political Studies Association awarded his doctoral thesis the Walter Bagehot prize for best dissertation in Government and Public Administration.

'...well-documented, relying on official documents, organizational and periodical literature, and personal interviews.' - W. Safran, Choice 'This is an excellent scholarly contribution to the literature on the state and policy-making in the Fifth Republic and, as such, will undoubtedly appeal to specialists in French politics. However, it will also be of interest to those working in the broad field of policy analysis, especially in Western Europe, and to those conducting research on new social movements. The material is clearly structured, the arguments cogently made and the writing unfailingly lucid.' - Raymond Kuhn, Political Studies Review 'Haye's book provides an excellent, up-to-date analysis of the changing forms of environmental protest in France today from a political science-based perspective, and he also makes a useful contribution to debates on social movement theory. However, the real strength of this book lies in the light it sheds on local grassroots activism and the place of this activism within the French environmental movement as a whole.' - Sarah Waters, Modern & Contemporary France

• List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Political Opportunities and Environmental Protest in France Environmental Protest in France Political Opportunities and Policy Communities: Developing a Network Approach to State-Group Relations Institutional Change and the Fifth Republic Water Resource Management and the Loire Development Programme Vive la Loire Sauvage! Serre de la Fare and the Political Opportunity Structure of Protest Roads Policy and Multi-level Decisionmaking Opportunity, Protest, and the Somport Tunnel Conclusion Bibliography Index