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Art Goldhammer: French Politics

Realignment!

11 February 2022 | Arthur Goldhammer

This year’s presidential campaign has thus far generated little excitement, but behind the scenes a remarkable party realignment seems to be well under way. This was underscored by three events […]

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Art Goldhammer: French Politics

Defections and the Future of the French Party System

30 January 2022 | Arthur Goldhammer

The French party system is in deep distress. This was already apparent in 2017, when the arrival of “neither right nor left” candidate Emmanuel Macron destructured the opposition that had […]

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Representing Parts and Parties

3 August 2021 | David Ragazzoni

This is the fourth and final review in our “Parliamentary Thinking” book forum.   Review of Parliament the Mirror of the Nation: Representation, Deliberation and Democracy in Victorian Britain by […]

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Art Goldhammer: French Politics

The Republicans Temporize

20 June 2019 | Arthur Goldhammer

With the news that Les Républicains are about to choose Christian Jacob as their new leader, it is clear that the party has no idea where it intends to go […]

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Art Goldhammer: French Politics

The Contradictions of Populism

30 April 2019 | Arthur Goldhammer

Since November 17 of last year, we have been regaled every Saturday with the lament of the Gilets Jaunes, those salt-of-the-earth French men and women who join together to protest […]

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Art Goldhammer: French Politics

Mélenchon: “Federate the people!”

24 April 2019 | Arthur Goldhammer

Jean-Luc Mélenchon contains multitudes. After the Notre-Dame fire, he was among the most eloquent of commentators, intimately familiar with the history of the cathedral. But his familiarity with the vast […]

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Art Goldhammer: French Politics

The “Social and Ecological” Contract

5 March 2019 | Arthur Goldhammer

As France’s political parties wither away, French civil society may be organizing itself to fill the void. Perhaps that is too optimistic a read of what those perennial civil-society reformers, […]

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Can “Procedural Extremism” Save Democracy?

3 October 2018 | Jacob Hamburger

  Since the election of Donald Trump in 2016, a common narrative to explain the state of American democracy has been the story of “norm erosion.” The premise of this narrative […]

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Blog editors/Rédacteurs du Blog / Jacob Hamburger: Blog Editor

Thoughts on the Fifth Republic’s Sixtieth

11 September 2018 | Jacob Hamburger

  To mark the sixtieth birthday of France’s Fifth Republic, I recently went and flipped through a chapter I had been meaning to come back to in Raymond Aron’s Démocratie et […]

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Art Goldhammer: French Politics

La Droite “Humaniste”

13 August 2018 | Arthur Goldhammer

What better time to launch a few trial balloons than the August doldrums. A Le Monde interview with former prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin is rich in instruction as to thinking of this […]

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The French Party System: A Vast Wasteland

8 June 2018 | Arthur Goldhammer

The French party system, devastated by the Macron tsunami, has not recovered. Only a bleak wasteland remains. If one looks closely, there are signs of life, but just barely. Small […]

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Hamon Sauvé des Eaux

24 January 2018 | Arthur Goldhammer

  It’s a year and a half before the European elections of May 2019, which will be the voters’ first turn to give a verdict on the Macron presidency at […]

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Blog editors/Rédacteurs du Blog / Jacob Hamburger: Blog Editor

Movements and Parties

21 January 2018 | Jacob Hamburger

This week’s Canard enchaîné reports that Emmanuel Macron—along with Richard Ferrand, the president of the parliamentary group of La République en marche—are struggling to control the left-leaning members of the governing majority who […]

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