The End of the French Exception?: Decline and Revival of the ‘French Model’

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-16
The French Exception: Rise and Fall of a Saint-Simonian Discourse....Pages 17-35
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
Reviving the French Exception? Sarkozy, Authoritarian Populism and the Bonapartist Tradition....Pages 39-54
Social Policy and France’s ‘Exceptional’ Social Model....Pages 55-71
‘L’exception culturelle’....Pages 72-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
The French Extreme Left and the Persistence of a Revolutionary Myth....Pages 87-104
French Euroscepticism and the Construction of National Exceptionalism....Pages 105-122
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
French Immigration Policy in Comparative Perspective....Pages 125-152
France, Islam and Laïcité: Colonial Exceptions, Contemporary Reinventions and European Convergence....Pages 153-170
From Private Lives to Intimate Revelations: Politicians and the Media in Contemporary France....Pages 171-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
France, Europe and the Limits of Exceptionalism....Pages 187-202
Back to the Future? Franco-African Relations in the Shadow of France’s Colonial Past....Pages 203-220
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
A View from the South. France in African Eyes: Universalism and Francophonie Reassessed....Pages 223-236
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
French Exceptionalism and the Sarkozy Presidency....Pages 239-250
Back Matter....Pages 251-279