The French State in Question
The French State in Question
The French State in Question places the idea of the state back at the heart of our understanding of modern French history and political culture, and challenges accepted views of the Third Republic as a "weak" state. At its core is an examination of a central problem in French politics of the belle epoque: Should the employees of the state have the right to unionize, and to strike? The book examines this as a problem of intellectual history: it seeks to explain why this was such an intractable question, and does so by demonstrating the importance of legal theory and the idea of the state in French political culture.
- Important re-assertion of significance of political and legal thought in development of French history post–1870
- Nature and scope of state power an enduring political issue - Jones examines one of its most important, and contested, manifestations
- Right of state employees to unionise remains important issue across Europe (e.g. GCHQ affair in UK)
Reviews & endorsements
"Richly documented, with an extensive, select bibliography and excellent index, this is a highly readable study of the social perspectives that made the conflicy between the right to associate and the rights of the state so central to the definition of French political realities and so difficult to resolve." Tobin H. Jones, French Review
"...this is a very useful addition to the Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics series....Its intended readers will find it a difficult, challenging, but ultimately extre,ely rewarding experience." Francis Cornish, Linguistics
Product details
January 1993Hardback
9780521431491
240 pages
229 × 152 × 17 mm
0.52kg
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Political culture and the problem of the state
- 2. Law and the state tradition
- 3. Administrative syndicalism and the organization of the state
- 4. Public power to public service
- 5. Civil rights and the republican state
- 6. From Contract to Status: Durkheim, Duguit and the state
- 7. Maurice Hauriou and the theory of the institution
- Conclusion.
