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La bipolarisation de la vie politique française a contribué à un certain déclin du social-centrisme : quels prolongements au niveau local ce déclin a-t-il connu ? La ville d'Aix-en-Provence, dont la vie politique locale est dominée par les centres — centre-gauche et centre-droit — et dont les élections municipales ont été annulées par deux fois depuis mars 1977, permet d'analyser jusqu'à une période récente le processus de reclassement politique du «centrisme». L'étude des choix stratégiques et des résultats électoraux depuis la fin de la seconde guerre mondiale explique les fondements du recours à une stratégie de troisième force pour la conquête de la municipalité aixoise ; elle montre aussi les conditions de la bataille des centres qui s'est livrée à Aix, bataille marquée, à la fois, par le déclin et par une forte résistance de la stratégie social-centriste. The bipolarization of French political life has caused something of a decline in social-centrist positions; what consequences has this decline had at the local level ? The city of Aix-en-Provence, where local politics is dominated by the centre ― centre-left and centre-right ― and where municipal elections have twice been invalidated since March 1977, provides material for an analysis of the process of political regrouping of "centrism". Consideration of choices of strategy and electoral results since the end of World War II explains the basic reasons for resorting to a third-force strategy in order to gain control of Aix. It also shows conditions of the struggle between centre groups in Aix, struggle notable for both the decline and the strong resistance of social-centrist strategy.

THE QUESTION OF COMBINING POLITICAL AND UNION MANDATES IN THE CFDT, par JEAN-PIERRE OPPENHEIM
In 1973, faced with the fact that a growing number of its active members were politically committed, the CFDT redefined the rules concerning the combining of political and union mandates that it had drawn up at the end of the Second World War. The context in which the Confederation drew up the principles governing this question, together with an analysis of the way in which they were respected in two of the regions in which they could have been most difficult to apply — the North and Alsace — explains why a revision of the said rules has been needed since the signing of the Common Programme of Government of the Union of the Left.
[Revue française de science politique XXV (2), avril 1975, pp. 317-336.]