A Round Table organized by the European Research Group on European Democracies (Department of Politics and International Relations – University of Oxford), Maison française d’Oxford, European Studies Centre, St Antony’s College (University of Oxford)

On the occasion of the launch of the books:

John Loughlin, Subnational Government: the French Experience (Macmillan Palgrave, 2007)

Jack Hayward, Fragmented France: Two Centuries of Disputed Identity (OUP, 2007)

Chair: Dr. Kalypso Nicolaïdis, European Studies Centre (St Antony’s – University of Oxford)

Pr. John Loughlin (Cardiff University, European Studies Centre Visiting Fellow)

Decentralization Act II: Reconfiguring the French State

Dr. Philippe Bezès (CNRS – Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches de Science Administrative)

The French administration under challenges: the influence of institutions and their legacies in the French administrative reform trajectory.

Pr. Jack Hayward (University of Hull)

Unitary Rhetoric and Diverse Reality: the longstanding divergences between principles and practice.