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- Title
French Political Culture in the 1970s.
- Authors
Chabal, Emile
- Abstract
French politics in the 1970s is notoriously hard to decipher. The increasingly violent attacks on Gaullism and Communism, the decline in French geopolitical power, and the end of postwar economic growth led to unprecedented unease about the nation's collective future. But rather than treat the 1970s as an endpoint, I argue in this article that the 1970s represented a new beginning. I explore how more modest conceptions of political action, the emergence of a new kind of liberalism, and the development of identity politics led to a profound transformation of French political culture - one that tried to reconcile France's long statist tradition with the realities of an ever-more fragmented polity.
- Subjects
FRANCE; POLITICAL culture; LIBERALISM; IDENTITY politics; FRENCH economy; POMPIDOU Administration; GISCARD d'Estaing Administration; GAULLISM; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 2016, Vol 42, Issue 2, p243
- ISSN
0340-613X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13109/gege.2016.42.2.243