The French Left and the Fifth Republic: The Discourses of Communism and Socialism in Contemporary France

by JohnGaffney (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1989

  $173.19

  An examination of the ways in which the French Left adapted, through a series of transformations, to the exigencies of presidentialism and the myths which underpin it. The study aims to illustrate the crucial role played by language in the political practice of representative democracy.