Round Table and Books Launch "Territorial Politics and Sub-national Government: the Restructuring of the French State during the Fifth Republic".
Round Table and Books Launch "Territorial Politics and Sub-national Government: the Restructuring of the French State during the Fifth Republic".
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.