Developments in French Politics 6

Helen Drake is Professor of French and European Studies and Director of the Institute for Diplomacy and International Governance (IDIG) at Loughborough University London. Alistair Cole is Professor of Politics and Head of the Department of Government and International Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University. Sophie Meunier is Senior Research Scholar at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, and Co-Director of the EU Program at Princeton. Vincent Tiberj is full professor and researcher at the Emile Durkheim Center, and Dean of Research at Sciences Po Bordeaux.

Developments in French Politics 6 is exactly what Francophiles need right now! This fresh, engaging compendium pulls together all the key elements of a period of tremendous political transformation, bringing the reader right up to date. Yet its judicious coverage, high quality analyses and wide frame of reference will certainly ensure its significance long beyond the present moment.

• 1. Transformation and Resistance in French Politics. 2. Can the French Presidency Survive? Political Leadership in Crisis. 3. Understanding the Unexpected: Emmanuel Macron’s Victory in the 2017 French Presidential Election. 4. All Change? Partisan Realignment and Parliamentary Reform Under Macron. 5. 2007-2017. From Father to Daughter: Shifts and Constants in the le Pen Strategy. 6. The Catholics Strike Back? Conservative Catholics and the Reshaping of the French Right. 7. Old Thinking about New Families: Reproductive and Sexual Politics in a Technological Age. 8. Territorial Governance in France: Between Recentralization and Differentiation. 9. Racial prejudice in Multicultural France. 10. Socio-economic Policy and Governance: The Difficult and Contested Politics of Reform. 11. The Yellow Vests Movement: Causes, Consequences and Significance. 12. Is France Back (Again)? European Governance for a Global World. 13. In Whose Name? French Society, Terrorism and Foreign Policy.