Vincent Wright

Martin Rhodes

Yves Meny

Western Europe and the Steel Industry in the Crisis Years (1974-1984)

The Politics of Steel

Edward C. Page

Bureaucratic Elites in West European States provides valuable information about the structures and composition of the higher civil service and its position in the political structure through a comparative analysis of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Greece, Denmark, and Sweden. The book explores how higher civil service has developed in the light of the massive changes in European societies in the past thirty years. Changes include the size of the top level of the civil service, the growing social diversity of its ranks and well as the tendency to recruit from outside the civil service. The book also examines how wider social changes, such as the democratisation of education, the growth of interest groups, and the increasing importance of the European Union impact on the higher levels of bureaucracy producing similar patterns of change throughout Europe.

A Comparative Analysis of Top Officials

Bureaucratic Elites in Western European States

Sudhir Hazareesingh

A distinguished collection of historians and political scientists reflect on France's evolution as a political community from the nineteenth century to the present. The volume offers an original and timely evaluation of the 'French model' of state building and sheds light on specific aspects of modern French political culture.

Essays in Honour of Vincent Wright

The Jacobin Legacy in Modern France

Andrew Knapp

The Government and Politics of France 4th Edition continues to provide students with a comprehensive and incisive introduction to the intricacies of French politics and government. Written by two leading authorities on the subject, this widely used textbook has been fully revised and up-dated to take into account the many changes that have occurred since the last edition was published. Coverage includes: * French political traditions * constitution and the Fifth Republic * the executive * the Parliament * parties and the party system * the Administration * interest groups * local politics * the impact of the EU.

The Government and Politics of France

Éric Anceau

Les notices individuelles fournissent une masse d'informations sur les origines familiales, les antécédents et les carrières postérieures, les opinions politiques et religieuses, les réseaux républicains et maçonniques, et les positions de fortune des préfets choisis par Gambetta pour administrer les départements. L'ouvrage brosse un saisissant tableau collectif d'une élite administrative puisée largement dans ces " couches nouvelles " qui nourriront abondamment les sphères dirigeantes de la Troisième République. Ce livre offre une ressource essentielle pour les spécialistes de l'histoire administrative, les historiens du républicanisme en France, ainsi que les chercheurs en sociologie historique. Précédé par une préface de Jean-Pierre Machelon, et par deux amples chapitres analytiques sur les travaux historiques de Vincent Wright et un " portrait de groupe " des préfets, cet ouvrage tout à la fois dense, rigoureux, et humain permet d'enrichir notre réflexion sur l'histoire de l'État, tout en rendant un ultime hommage à l'un des plus grands spécialistes de l'histoire de l'administration en France

Les préfets de Gambetta

The Government and Politics of France has been the leading textbook on French politics for over a generation, and continues to provide students with a comprehensive and incisive introduction to the intricacies of French politics and government. This edition updates every chapter, with the addition of a new chapter on France and Europe. Recent events necessitate a new edition, particularly the 2002 elections and the growing interpenetration of France and the EU in student programmes, as well as in the real world. Whether covering the shifting balance within France's two-headed executive, the paradoxes of the French party politics, the power and fragmentation of France's administration, the growing assertiveness of French local government, or the newly visible world of the judiciary, The Government and Politics of France has always sought to confront established paradigms with the complex and untidy reality of French politics at the grass roots.

Wolfgang C. Müller

Focusing exclusively on the functional rather than the territorial level, this book reveals that the reshaping of the state in western Europe involves different policies across Europe and conflicting tendencies in the impact of the various reform programmes. Whilst the state may be in retreat in some respects, its activity may be increasing in others. And nowhere, not even in Britain, has its key decision-making role been seriously undermined.

Vincent Wright

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