PART 1: THE MAKING OF MODERN FRANCE

1. The making of modern France

2. France since 1958

3. French political culture

PART 2: INSTITUTIONS AND POWER

4. Presidents and Prime Ministers

5. Checks and balances?

6. The immobile State?

7. Local and regional government

PART 3: POLITICAL FORCES AND REPRESENTATION

8. The French party system

9. French parties today

10. The representation of interests

PART 4: RESHAPING MODERN FRANCE

11. Society, citizenship and identity

12. The economy and economic governance

13. Europe and europeanisation

14. Reinventing French politics and society

Bibliography

Appendices

Appendix 1: Presidential elections in the Fifth Republic

Appendix 2: Presidential election run-offs

Appendix 3: National Assembly elections, 1958-2002