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Politics in France
In: A country study
In: The Little, Brown series in comparative politics
Organizing Interests in Western Europe: Pluralism, Corporatism and the Transformation of Politics, by Suzanne D. Berger
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Volume 97, Issue 2, p. 363-364
ISSN: 1538-165X
Socialism in Provence 1871-1914: A Study in the Origins of the Modern French Left. By Tony Judt. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. xiv + 370. $42.50, cloth; $12.95, paper.) - British Socialists: The Journey from Fantasy to Politics. By Stanley Pierson. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Unive...
In: American political science review, Volume 75, Issue 1, p. 240-242
ISSN: 1537-5943
Die Entwicklung der Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit im Frankreich der Fünften Republik
In: Der Staat: Zeitschrift für Staatslehre und Verfassungsgeschichte, deutsches und europäisches öffentliches Recht, Volume 20, Issue 3, p. 373-392
ISSN: 0038-884X
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Elites in French Society: The Politics of Survival, by Ezra N. Suleiman
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Volume 94, Issue 3, p. 560-562
ISSN: 1538-165X
Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940–1944. By Robert O. Paxton. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1972. Pp. 399, xix. $10.00.)
In: American political science review, Volume 69, Issue 1, p. 338-339
ISSN: 1537-5943
Société et Politique: La vie des Groupes. Tome premier: Fondements de la Société Libérale. Tome second: Dynamique de la Société Libérale. By Léon Dion. (Québec: Les Presses de l'Université de Laval, 1971, 1972. Pp. 444 and 616. No price indicated.) - Pluralismus: Konzeptionen und Kontroversen. Edite...
In: American political science review, Volume 68, Issue 4, p. 1733-1735
ISSN: 1537-5943
L'Ouvrier français en 1970. By G. Adam, F. Bon, J. Capdevielle, and R. Mourioux. (Paris: Armand Colin, 1970. Pp. 276. 38.00 francs.)
In: American political science review, Volume 67, Issue 1, p. 237-239
ISSN: 1537-5943
Politik als Interessenkonflikt. By Wolfgang Hirsch-Weber. (Stuttgart: Friedrich Enke Verlag, 1969, Pp., 288.)
In: American political science review, Volume 64, Issue 2, p. 625-626
ISSN: 1537-5943
The Agony of UtopiaThe Agony of the American Left. By Christopher Lasch An Essay on Liberation. By Herbert Marcuse Obsolete Communism. The Left Wing Alternative. By Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Gabriel Cohn-Bendit American Power and the New Mand...
In: Polity, Volume 2, Issue 3, p. 380-391
ISSN: 1744-1684
Léon Blum: Humanist in Politics. By Joel Colton. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. Pp. xvi, 512. $10.00.) - Léon Blum: Theorie und Praxis einer sozialistischen Politik Band I: 1872 bis 1934. By Gilbert Ziebura. (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1963. Pp. ix, 526.)
In: American political science review, Volume 61, Issue 2, p. 495-496
ISSN: 1537-5943
Interest Groups in Italian Politics, by Joseph LaPalombara
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Volume 81, Issue 1, p. 112-114
ISSN: 1538-165X
Direct Democracy in France
In: American political science review, Volume 57, Issue 4, p. 883-901
ISSN: 1537-5943
When during the debate on a motion of censure in October 1962 Paul Reynaud challenged the government from the rostrum of the National Assembly with a scornful: "Here and nowhere else is France!", the issue was well joined. To Reynaud, perennial deputy during three republican regimes, General de Gaulle's projected referendum appeared as a two-fold attack upon French republican traditions. If adopted, the proposal to elect the President of the Republic by popular suffrage would divest the Assembly of its role as the sole bearer of national sovereignty. Moreover, to seek approval for such a change of the constitution of 1958 without a prior vote of parliament deprived both houses of any participation in the amending process.In 1958, as President of the Consultative Constitutional Committee, Reynaud had insisted that the possibilities of any direct appeal to the electorate be carefully circumscribed and hedged by parliamentary controls. He had obtained official assurances that the referendum would never be used by the executive as a means of arousing popular opinion against the elected assemblies. The final text of the constitution had incorporated proposals by the Consultative Committee which strengthened the position of parliament whenever either a referendum or presidential emergency powers might create a plebiscitarian situation.