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The relationship between political leadership, organisation and discourse in the French Fifth Republic.
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Gaffney, J.
University of Sussex
1984
Ph.D.
University of Sussex
1984
and underlying the literature about the regime of the FifthRepublic in France,namely,the nature of the relationshipbetween a particular form of presidential rule on the onehand,and parliamentary,party and republican politics on theother.Although this literature examines the effect onpolitics of the Republic's first President,Charles de Gaulle -notably his encouragement of the institutionalisation ofpresidentialism - ,it neglects three central questionsconcerning: 1. the interrelationship of his idea of authorityand principles of republican rule; 2. the nature of republicanism;3. the manner and mode of party political adaptationto the norms and practices of the Fifth Republic.Ingeneral,this literature does not direct sufficient 'attentionto the complex relationship between leaders and their actualor potential constituencies (Chapter I). The agenc~ of thisrelationship is language;the major context,public discoursein ritual settings.Before examining examples of suchdiscourse,a discussion of their conditions of. existence andof their organisational and discursive contexts notes theintrusion into party discourse of myths and appeals to formsof allegiance which transcend traditional part~ allegiancesin order to enhance the status of leaders.The discussionfurther demonstrates the centrality of discourse in politicalexchange in democratic politics (Chapter 2).Three casestudies of the public discourse of the Communist,Socialistand Gaullist parties in the 1970s are prefaced by adiscussion of the methodological issues involved in sucha study (Chapter 3).Each of the case study chapters (Chapters4,5 and 6) establishes an~ analyses the .strategic,doctrinal,organisational and other conditions of the texts to bestudied,before analysing them in detail.The case studies illustrate the complexity both of discursiveclaims to leadership and of their relationship to politicalorganisation.Each of the political parties studied respondsin a different way,depending upon its traditions anddispositions,to the constraints imposed upon it by presidentialpractice in the Fifth Republic.The essence of theCommunist response is the presentation of innovation asorthodoxy;the Socialist,the conflation of pragmatism andmillenarianism;the Gaullist,the reconstruction anddeployment of an abandoned Gaullist myth.The study of theseparty discourses further indicates: the formative influenceof discourse upon political pract,ice; the polyvalence ofparty doctrines; and the subtle interaction of intra- andextra-party myths and traditions in the general developmentof a presidential regime.
French politics
Gaffney, J.
University of Sussex
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