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".

Tuesday, 12 June 2007 - 5:00pm
Venue: 
Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford, OX2 6SE;
Speaker(s): 
Pr. John Loughlin (Cardiff University, European Studies Centre Visiting Fellow)
Dr. Philippe Bezès (CNRS – Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches de Science Administrative)
Pr. Jack Hayward (University of Hull)
Chair: 
Dr. Kalypso Nicolaïdis, European Studies Centre (St Antony’s – University of Oxford)
Convenor: 
Dr. Charlotte Halpern (Maison française d’Oxford / FNSP – PACTE)

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.