Perspectives on Parties in France --;The Fifth Republic and the Course of Electoral Politics --;The Left: Dynamics of Co-operation and Conflict --;The Communist Collapse --;Influence of Supremacy: The Socialists Under Mitterrand and After --;The Green Dilemma --;The Centre Cannot Hold: The Rise and Fall of the UDF --;The End of Gaullism and the Birth of the President's Party --;The Rise and Rise of the Far Right --;From the Barrel of a Gun: Chasse, P̊che, Nature et Traditions --;A Disconnected Democracy?
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Parties and the Party System in France seeks to explain the paradox of France's current relationship to politics through a comprehensive analysis of French political parties and their interaction over the last fifty years, set against the two contexts of French history and of contemporary theories of parties and party systems.