The French Exception

Abstract

Foreword List of Abbreviations Introduction PART I: PROBLEMATISING EXCEPTIONALISM Chapter 1. France and Exceptionalism Nick Hewlett Chapter 2. Exceptionalism and Universalism: The Uneasy Alliance in the French-speaking World Margaret A. Majumdar Chapter 3. The Elusive French Exception Sue Collard PART II: EXCEPTIONALISM IN POLITICS AND POLICY Chapter 4. French Communism: An Exceptional Orthodoxy David S. Bell Chapter 5. Does it Make Sense to Treat the Front National as a 'French Exception'? Emmanuel Godin Chapter 6. The French Administrative Exception: Change and Resistance Anne Stevens Chapter 7. French Industrial Relations - Still Exceptional? Nick Parsons Chapter 8. The French Socialists, Dirigisme and the Troubled Europeanisation of Employment Policy Ben Clift Chapter 9. French Foreign and Defence Policy: Exceptional in Methods and Rhetoric? Janet Bryant PART III: EXCEPTIONALISM IN FRENCH CULTURE, THE MEDIA AND SPORT Chapter 10. Presidential Debates in France: An Example of Americanisation? Sheila Perry Chapter 11. The Myth of Exceptionalism? French Television in a West European Context Raymond Kuhn Chapter 12. Cultural Exception(s) in French Cinema Brigitte Rollet Chapter 13. Sport and Politics: Another French Exception Patrick Mignon Chapter 14. French Intellectuals: the Legendary Exception Michael Kelly Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index