The End of the French Exception?

1. Introduction
Tony Chafer, Emmanuel Godin

1. The French Exception: Rise and Fall of a Saint-Simonian Discourse

2. The French Exception: Rise and Fall of a Saint-Simonian Discourse
Sue Collard

Section I. The French State

3. Reviving the French Exception? Sarkozy, Authoritarian Populism and the Bonapartist Tradition
Nick Hewlett

4. Social Policy and France’s ‘Exceptional’ Social Model
Susan Milner

5. ‘L’exception culturelle’
Hugh Dauncey

Section II. Conflicts and Polarisation

6. The French Extreme Left and the Persistence of a Revolutionary Myth
David Bell

7. French Euroscepticism and the Construction of National Exceptionalism
Robert Harmsen

Section III. Citizenship and the Republican Model

8. French Immigration Policy in Comparative Perspective
Martin A. Schain

9. France, Islam and Laïcité: Colonial Exceptions, Contemporary Reinventions and European Convergence
Natalya Vince

10. From Private Lives to Intimate Revelations: Politicians and the Media in Contemporary France
Raymond Kuhn

Section IV. France as a Universal Model

11. France, Europe and the Limits of Exceptionalism
Helen Drake

12. Back to the Future? Franco-African Relations in the Shadow of France’s Colonial Past
Margaret A. Majumdar, Tony Chafer

Section V. The French Exception Seen from Abroad

13. A View from the South. France in African Eyes: Universalism and Francophonie Reassessed
Abdoulaye Gueye

Section VI. Conclusion: French Exceptionalism Reconsidered

14. French Exceptionalism and the Sarkozy Presidency
Tony Chafer, Emmanuel Godin

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, European Union Politics, European Politics, Political Science, Comparative Politics, US Politics, Globalization