French Politics Books

New and Published Books

1. Rethinking the French New Right

   Alternatives to Modernity

   By Tamir Bar-On

   Series: Extremism and Democracy

   This book focuses on the philosophy, politics and impact of the 'New Right' which originated in France and has since influenced activism, ideology and policy in a number of European countries. This book explores the idea that revolutionaries do not necessarily need to come from the left, nor...

   Published April 8th 2013 by Routledge
2. Housing Disadvantaged People?

   Insiders and Outsiders in French Social Housing

   By Jane Ball

   Series: Housing and Society Series

   Social housing appears to offer a solution for the housing of poor and disadvantaged people. The French "right to housing" offers poor and disadvantaged citizens priority in social housing allocation, and even a legal action against the State to obtain a social home. Despite this, France is...

   Published September 27th 2011 by Routledge
3. Political Campaigning, Elections and the Internet

   Comparing the US, UK, France and Germany

   By Darren Lilleker, Nigel Jackson

   Series: Routledge Research in Political Communication

   The Internet first played a minor role in the 1992 U.S. Presidential election, and has gradually increased in importance so that it is central to election campaign strategy. However, election campaigners have, until very recently, focused on Web 1.0: websites and email. Political Campaigning,...

   Published February 13th 2011 by Routledge
4. Party Politics and Decentralization in Japan and France

   When the Opposition Governs

   By Koichi Nakano

   Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

   Decentralization is a curious policy for a central government to pursue. If politics is essentially about the struggle for power, why would anyone want to give away the power that one struggled for and won? This book argues that it is precisely party competition in search of power that propels...

   Published December 3rd 2009 by Routledge
5. France’s Political Institutions at 50

   Edited by Emiliano Grossman, Nicolas Sauger

   Series: West European Politics

   Fifty years after the creation of the Fifth Republic, French politics is undergoing profound changes. The election of Nicolas Sarkozy has announced a general review of the French political system. A special committee – the comité constitutionnel – is currently drafting a catalogue of...

   Published July 27th 2009 by Routledge
6. Fighting Terrorism and Drugs

   Europe and International Police Cooperation

   By Jörg Friedrichs

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   Fighting Terrorism and Drugs is an examination of European states in their fight against terrorism and drugs, from the 1960s up to the present day. Jörg Friedrichs explores what makes large European states willing or unwilling to participate in international...

   Published June 25th 2009 by Routledge
7. Anglo-French Relations since the Late Eighteenth Century

   Edited by Glyn Stone, Thomas G. Otte

   This work, intended to commemorate the centenary of the Entente Cordiale in 2004, examines aspects of Anglo-French relations since the late eighteenth century when both Britain and France were pre-eminent great powers at war with one another through to the post-Second World War period when both had...

   Published February 19th 2009 by Routledge
8. Globalised Football

   Nations and Migration, the City and the Dream

   Edited by Nina Clara Tiesler, Joao Nuno Coelho

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   When studying the social phenomena in and around football, five major aspects of globalisation processes become evident: international migration, the global flow of capital, the syncretistic nature of tradition and modernity in contemporary culture, new experiences of time and space and the...

   Published April 13th 2008 by Routledge
9. The Extreme Right in France

   From Pétain to Le Pen

   By James Shields

   A comprehensive new historical study of the extreme right in France, from the Vichy regime to the present day. The Front National has for some years been France's third political party and the most significant extreme-right force in Europe; its leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, contested the second round...

   Published April 25th 2007 by Routledge
10. The Official History of Britain and the Channel Tunnel

    By Terry Gourvish

    Series: Government Official History Series

    Commissioned by the Cabinet Office and using hitherto untapped British Government records, this book presents an in-depth analysis of the successful project of 1986-94. This is a vivid portrayal of the complexities of quadripartite decision-making (two countries, plus the public and...

    Published June 29th 2006 by Routledge