French Politics, Culture & Society
Aims & Scope
Editor: Herrick Chapman
FPC&S is the journal of the Conference Group on French Politics & Society. It is jointly sponsored by the Institute of French Studies at New York University and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University
French Politics, Culture & Society explores modern and contemporary France from the perspectives of the social sciences, history, and cultural analysis. It also examines France's relationship to the larger world, especially Europe, the United States, and the former French Empire. The editors also welcome pieces on recent debates and events, as well as articles that explore the connections between French society and cultural expression of all sorts (such as art, film, literature, and popular culture). Issues devoted to a single theme appear from time to time. With refereed research articles, timely essays, and reviews of books in many disciplines, French Politics, Culture & Society provides a forum for learned opinion and the latest scholarship on France.
Subjects: Contemporary French Studies, Politics, History, Sociology, Anthropology, Geography, Cultural Studies
Current Issue, Winter 2011
Volume 29 • Issue 3 • 2011
Special Issue: Political Radicalism in France
Guest Editor: James Shields
Political Radicalism in France: Perspectives on a Protean Concept
James Shields
Political Radicalism, Policy Expectation, and Electoral Competition in France: A Means to the End?
Jocelyn Evans
The French Socialist Party and its Radical Ambiguity
Alistair Cole
Le radicalisme dans le parti socialiste aujourd’hui
Gérard Grunberg
Nicolas Sarkozy a-t-il radicalisé la droite française? Changements idéologiques et étiquetages politiques
Florence Haegel
Radical or Not So Radical? Tactical Variation in Core Policy Formation by the Front National
James Shields
Why Extremes Don’t Meet: Le Pen and Besancenot Voters in the 2007 French Presidential Election
Nonna Mayer
In Search of Lost Radicalism: The Hot Autumn of 2010 and the Transformation of Labor Contention in France
Marcos Ancelovici
BOOK REVIEWS
La Lutte antialcoolique en France depuis le XIXe siècleby Bertrand Dargelos
Joseph Bohling
Théâtres en capitales. Naissance de la société du spectacle à Paris, Berlin, Londres et Vienne, 1860–1914 by Christophe Charle
Sally Debra Charnow
In Pursuit of the People: Political Culture in France, 1934–39 by Jessica Wardhaugh
Philip Nord
Mobilizing Youth: Communists and Catholics in Interwar France by Susan B. Whitney
Arthur Plaza
The New Face of Political Cinema, Commitment in French Film since 1995 by Martin O’Shaughnessy
Romain Lecler
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