In 1981, in uneasy alliance with the Communists and amidst a storm of revolutionary rhetoric, the French Socialist party came to power for the first time since the founding of the Fifth Republic. The only full-length study of the subject yet written, this book looks at the realities beyond the rhetoric--how the Left came to power, what the Socialists achieved in the way of social change, where they failed to diverge from policies associated with the Right, and what lasting impact their brief tenure is likely to have on French and European politics.
In 1981, in uneasy alliance with the Communists and amidst a storm of revolutionary rhetoric, the French Socialist party came to power for the first time since the founding of the Fifth Republic. The only full-length study of the subject yet written, this book looks at the realities beyond the rhetoric--how the Left came to power, what the Socialists achieved in the way of social change, where they failed to diverge from policies associated with the Right, and what lasting impact their brief tenure is likely to have on French and European politics.
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Preface
Victory in 1981: The Long March of the Socialists, by Patrick
McCarthy
Economic Policy, by Volkmar Lauber
Foreign and Security Policy, by Michael M. Harrison
Education: Cultural Persistence and Institutional Change, by
Michalina Vaughan
Decentralization: A Revolutionary Reform, by Vivien A. Schmidt
Labor and the Left in Power: Commissions, Omissions and Unintended
Consequences, by George Ross
Racial Politics: The Rise of the National Front, by Martin A.
Schain
The Communist Party: Out of the Frying Pan, by D.S.Bell and Byron
Criddle
The Parti Socialiste in 1986, by Patrick McCarthy
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors
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