The Mitterrand Years: Legacy and Evaluation

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List of Tables - Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction: The Mitterrand Era in Perspective M.Maclean - PART 1: SOCIALISM AND THE STATE - Moins d'Etat ou Mieux d'Etat: The French Response to the Neo-Liberal Challenge J.Hayward - A Dirigiste End to Dirigisme? E.Cohen - The Crisis of the Left and the Renaissance of the Republican Model 1981-95 S.Berstein - The Parti Socialiste After Mitterrand: a Half-Finished Modernisation D.Bell - PART 2: EUROPE AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS - EMU and Presidential Leadership Under Fran?s Mitterrand K.Dyson & K.Featherstone - Independence and Interdependence: Foreign Policy over Mitterrand's Two Presidential Terms D.David - PART 3: ECONOMY AND SOCIETY - The End of French Exceptionalism? Mitterrand's Economic and Social Policy in Perspective H.Uterwedde - French Business in the Mitterrand Years: the Continuity of Change J.Szarka - Industrial Relations in France: Towards a New Social Pact? S.Milner - Women and Political Representation During the Mitterrand Presidency: or the Family Romance of the Fifth Republic S.Reynolds - The Failure of Anti-Racist Movements in France, 1981-95 P.Fysh - PART 4: HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY - Fran?s Mitterrand Between Vichy and the Resistance E.Duhamel - The Making of a President: Political Culture and Collective Memory in the Morvan M.Demossier - The Political Leader and His Heritage A.Cole PART 5: CULTURE - Mitterrand's Grands Projets: Monuments to a Man or Monuments to an Age? E.Cahm - Socialist Film Policy and the Heritage Film G.Austin - The State and the Broadcasting Media: All Change? R.Kuhn - The Silence of the Left Intellectuals in Mitterrand's France M.Cornick - Conclusion: The Mitterrand Legacy and the New Millennium Mairi Maclean - Index