The End of the French Exception?

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Tony Chafer, Emmanuel Godin

      Pages 1-16

3. The French Exception: Rise and Fall of a Saint-Simonian Discourse

   1. The French Exception: Rise and Fall of a Saint-Simonian Discourse

      • Sue Collard

      Pages 17-35

4. The French State

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37

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   2. Reviving the French Exception? Sarkozy, Authoritarian Populism and the Bonapartist Tradition

      • Nick Hewlett

      Pages 39-54

   3. Social Policy and France’s ‘Exceptional’ Social Model

      • Susan Milner

      Pages 55-71

   4. ‘L’exception culturelle’

      • Hugh Dauncey

      Pages 72-84

5. Conflicts and Polarisation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

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   2. The French Extreme Left and the Persistence of a Revolutionary Myth

      • David Bell

      Pages 87-104

   3. French Euroscepticism and the Construction of National Exceptionalism

      • Robert Harmsen

      Pages 105-122

6. Citizenship and the Republican Model

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123

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   2. French Immigration Policy in Comparative Perspective

      • Martin A. Schain

      Pages 125-152

   3. France, Islam and Laïcité: Colonial Exceptions, Contemporary Reinventions and European Convergence

      • Natalya Vince

      Pages 153-170

   4. From Private Lives to Intimate Revelations: Politicians and the Media in Contemporary France

      • Raymond Kuhn

      Pages 171-184

7. France as a Universal Model

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185

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   2. France, Europe and the Limits of Exceptionalism

      • Helen Drake

      Pages 187-202

   3. Back to the Future? Franco-African Relations in the Shadow of France’s Colonial Past

      • Margaret A. Majumdar, Tony Chafer

      Pages 203-220

8. The French Exception Seen from Abroad

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221

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   2. A View from the South. France in African Eyes: Universalism and Francophonie Reassessed

      • Abdoulaye Gueye

      Pages 223-236

9. Conclusion: French Exceptionalism Reconsidered

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-237

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Analyzes the notion of the French exception and the ways in which it has informed both academic analysis and political commentary on France today. Adopting a comparative and interdisciplinary approach it examines the resilience of the notion of French exceptionalism and evaluates its relevance in a changing domestic and global context.

• conflict
• immigration
• migration
• Policy
• revolution
• social policy
• european union politics
• us politics

'This is an extremely interesting book that makes an important contribution to scholarship. I think that students of contemporary French politics and sociology will find much to think about in this stimulating read.'

- West European Politics

• University of Portsmouth, UK

  Tony Chafer, Emmanuel Godin

DAVID BELL School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds UK TONY CHAFER Professor of Contemporary French Area Studies and Director of the Centre for European and International Studies Research at the University of Portsmouth, UK SUE COLLARD Sussex European Institute, UK HUGH DAUNCEY Newcastle University. UK HELEN DRAKE Loughborough University, UK EMMANUEL GODIN University of Portsmouth, UK ABOULAYE GUEYE University of Ottawa, Canada ROBERT HARMSEN University of Luxembourg NICK HEWLETT University of Warwick, UK RAYMOND KUHN Queen Mary, University of London, UK MARGARET MAJUMDAR University of Portsmouth, UK SUSAN MILNER University of Bath, UK MARTIN SCHAIN New York University, USA NATALYA VINCE Queen Mary, University of London, UK

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