The end of the French exception? : decline and revival of the 'French model' /
Chafer, Tony.
Godin, Emmanuel.
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-270) and index.
The French exception: rise and fall of a Saint-Simonian discourse / Sue Collard -- Reviving the French exception? Sarkozy, authoritarian populism and the Bonapartist tradition / Nick Hewlett -- Social policy and France's 'exceptional' social model / Susan Milner -- L'exception culturelle / Hugh Dauncey -- The French extreme left and the persistence of a revolutionary myth / David Bell -- French Euroscepticism and the construction of national exceptionalism / Robert Harmsen -- French immigration policy in comparative perspective / Martin A. Schain -- France, Islam and Laïcité: colonial exceptions, contemporary reinventions and European convergence / Natalya Vince -- From private lives to intimate revelations: politicians and the media in contemporary France / Raymond Kuhn -- France, Europe and the limits of exceptionalism / Helen Drake -- Back to the future? Franco-African relations in the shadow of France's colonial past / Margaret A. Majumdar, Tony Chafer -- A view from the South. France in African eyes: universalism and Francophonie reassessed / Abdoulaye Gueye -- French exceptionalism and the Sarkozy presidency / Tony Chafer, Emmanuel Godin.
National characteristics, French.