Contents

List of figures and tables

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Introduction (Jocelyn A. J. Evans)

1 Stress, strain and stability in the French party system (Alistair Cole)

I THE LEFT

2 The French Communist Party: from revolution to reform (David S. Bell)

3 PS intra-party politics and party system change (Ben Clift)

4 The Greens: from idealism to pragmatism, 1984–2002 (Bruno Villalba and Sylvie Vieillard-Coffre)

5 Managing the plural left: implications for the party system (David Hanley)

6 Beyond the mainstream: la gauche de la gauche (Jim Wolfreys)

I I THE RIGHT

7 The UDF in the 1990s: the break-up of a party confederation (Nicolas Sauger)

8 From the Gaullist movement to the president’s party (Andrew Knapp)

9 The FN split: party system change and electoral prospects (Gilles Ivaldi)

I I I SYSTEM CONTEXT

10 Europe and the French party system (Jocelyn A. J. Evans)

11 Contemporary developments in political space in France (Robert Andersen and Jocelyn A. J. Evans)

Conclusion (Jocelyn A. J. Evans)

References

Index