The French Exception.
- 1st ed.
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Intro -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I: Problematising Exceptionalism -- Chapter 1: France and Exceptionalism -- Chapter 2: Exceptionalism and Universalism: The Uneasy Alliance in the French-speaking World -- Chapter 3: The Elusive French Exception -- Part II: Exceptionalism in Politics and Policy -- Chapter 4: French Communism: An Exceptional Orthodoxy -- Chapter 5: Does it Make Sense to Treat the Front National as a 'French Exception'? -- Chapter 6: The French Administrative Exception: Change and Resistance -- Chapter 7: French Industrial Relations - Still Execeptional? -- Chapter 8: The French Socialists, Dirigisme and the Troubled Europeanisation of Employment Policy -- Chapter 9: French Foreign and Defence Policy: Exceptional in Methods and Rhetoric? -- Part III: Exceptionalism in French Culture, the Media and Sport -- Chapter 10: Presidential Debates in France: An Example of Americanisation? -- Chapter 11: The Myth of Exceptionalism? French Television in a West European Context -- Chapter 12: Cultural Exception(s) in French Cinema -- Chapter 13: Sport and Politics: Another French Exception -- Chapter 14: French Intellectuals: The Legendary Exception -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
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National characteristics, French. France-Civilization. France-Social life and customs. France-Politics and government.