The French State and the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
Language
en
Chapitre d'ouvrage
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Reinventing France : state and society in the twenty-first century. 2003p. 48-62
Palgrave Macmillan
English Abstract
Despite the way in which it is often portrayed by the French, the state has never been the eternal and universal figure embodied in the famous republican synthesis. Historians and political scientists have shown that the ...Read more >
Despite the way in which it is often portrayed by the French, the state has never been the eternal and universal figure embodied in the famous republican synthesis. Historians and political scientists have shown that the state is continually changing. It cannot therefore remain unaffected by the changes ushered in by the new century. In order to examine the way in which the French state is facing up to the challenges of the twenty-first century, we must first look at two crucial — and difficult — issues of definition.Read less <
English Keywords
Protest movement
French State
French people
Senior civil servant
Administrative apparatus
Origin
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