Democratizing France
Subtitle: The Political and Administrative History of Decentralization
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 29, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9780521391566
Subjects: Central government policies; c 1980 to c 1990; Political Science; Political History; History - General History; Politics/International Relations; Public Affairs & Administration; Politics / Current Events; Europe - France; Decentralization in government--France--History; Political Science / General; General; Decentralization in government; France; History; Local government
First sentence: When the Socialists passed decentralizing legislation from 1982 to 1986 that redefined the role of the state in the periphery and gave extensive new powers to territorial units of government, they fulfilled one of the last imperatives of the French Revolution.