Table of Contents
Foreword List of Abbreviations
Introduction
PART I: PROBLEMATISING EXCEPTIONALISM
Chapter 1. France and Exceptionalism Nick Hewlett
Chapter 2. Exceptionalism and Universalism: The Uneasy Alliance in the French-speaking World Margaret A. Majumdar
Chapter 3. The Elusive French Exception Sue Collard
PART II: EXCEPTIONALISM IN POLITICS AND POLICY
Chapter 4. French Communism: An Exceptional Orthodoxy David S. Bell
Chapter 5. Does it Make Sense to Treat the Front National as a ‘French Exception’? Emmanuel Godin
Chapter 6. The French Administrative Exception: Change and Resistance Anne Stevens
Chapter 7. French Industrial Relations – Still Exceptional? Nick Parsons
Chapter 8. The French Socialists, Dirigisme and the Troubled Europeanisation of Employment Policy Ben Clift
Chapter 9. French Foreign and Defence Policy: Exceptional in Methods and Rhetoric? Janet Bryant
PART III: EXCEPTIONALISM IN FRENCH CULTURE, THE MEDIA AND SPORT
Chapter 10. Presidential Debates in France: An Example of Americanisation? Sheila Perry
Chapter 11. The Myth of Exceptionalism? French Television in a West European Context Raymond Kuhn
Chapter 12. Cultural Exception(s) in French Cinema Brigitte Rollet
Chapter 13. Sport and Politics: Another French Exception Patrick Mignon
Chapter 14. French Intellectuals: the Legendary Exception Michael Kelly
Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
