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THE MITTERRAND YEARS Also by Mairi Maclean EUROPEANS ON EUROPE: Transnational Visions of a New Continent (edited with J. Howorth) FRENCH ENTERPRISE AND THE CHALLENGE OF THE BRITISH WATER INDUSTRY Water without Frontiers The Mitterrand Years Legacy and Evaluation Edited by Mairi Maclean Senior Lecturer in European Business Royal Holloway University of London First published in Great Britain 1998 by MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG2 1 6XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978-1-349-263974 ISBN 978-1-349-26395-0 (eBook) DO1 10.10071978-1-349-26395-0 First published in the United States of America 1998 by ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, INC., Scholarly and Reference Division, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 ISBN 978-0-312-21082-3 Library of Congress Cataloging-irl-PublicationD ata The Mittelrand years : legacy and evaluation 1 edited by Mairi Maclean. p. cm. "Origins of this volu~ncli e in the 1996 Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Modem and Contemporary France .. . held at Royal Holloway, University of London, in September 1996"-Ack. Includes bibliograohical references and index. ISBN 978-0-312-21082-3 (cloth) I. Mitterrand, Franqois, 1916- -Influence-Congresses. 2. France-Politics and government-198 1-1995-Congresses. 3. France-Cultural policy-Congresses. 4. Twenty first century- -Forecasts-Congresses. I. Maclean, Mairi, 1959- . 11. Association for the Study of Modem and Contemporary France (Great Britain). Conference (1996 : University of London) DC423.M.578 1997 944.083'9'0924~21 97-1 3392 CIP 0 M. Maclean 1998 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1s t edition 1998 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W I P 9HE. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Contents .. . List of Tables Vlll Acknowledgements ix List of Abbreviations X ... Notes on the Contributors Xlll Introduction: The Mitterrand Era in Perspective 1 Mairi Maclean Part 1: Socialism and the State 1 Moins d'Etat or Mieux d'Etat: the French Response to the Neo-Liberal Challenge Jack Hayward 2 A Dirigiste End to Dirigisme? Elie Cohen 3 The Crisis of the Left and the Renaissance of the Republican Model, 1981-1995 Serge Berstein 4 The Parti Socialiste After Mitterrand: a Half-Finished Modernization David Bell Part 2: Europe and Foreign Affairs 5 EMU and Presidential Leadership under Franqois Mitterrand Kenneth Dyson and Kevin Featherstone 6 Independence and Interdependence: Foreign Policy over Mitterrand's Two Presidential Terms Dominique David Part 3: Economy and Society 7 Mitterrand's Economic and Social Policy in Perspective Henrik Uterwedde vi Cont ents 8 French Business in the Mitterrand Years: the Continuity of Change Joseph Szarka 9 Industrial Relations in France: Towards a New Social Pact? Susan Milner 10 Women and Political Representation during the Mitterrand Presidency - or the Family Romance of the Fifth Republic Sidn Reynold 11 The Failure of Anti-Racist Movements in France, 1981-1995 Peter Fysh Part 4: History and Biography 12 Fran~oisM itterrand Between Vichy and the Resistance Eric Duhamel 13 The Making of a President: Political Culture and Collective Memory in the Morvan Marion Demossier 14 The Political Leader and his Heritage Alistair Cole Part 5: Culture 15 Mitterrand's Grands Projets: Monuments to a Man or Monuments to an Age? Eric Cahm 16 Socialist Film Policy and the Heritage Film Guy Austin 17 The State and the Broadcasting Media: All Change? Raymond Kuhn 18 The Silence of the Left Intellectuals in Mitterrand's France Martyn Cornick Contents vii Conclusion: The Mitterrand Legacy and the New Millennium 314 Mairi Maclean 319 List of Tables Macroeconomic performance 1976180-1 996 Nationalizations and privatizations of main companies Annual GDP increases France's international trade in goods and services (1972-1992) French trade balances (1 98 1-1995) (in billions of francs) Women parliamentarians as a percentage of the National Assembly in France Women ministers in France since 1936 Acknowledgements The origins of this volume lie in the 1996 Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France (ASMCF) on 'The Mitterrand Era in Perspective', held at Royal Hollo- way, University of London, in September 1996. I am grateful to all those who attended and contributed to the conference and helped to make it such a success - first and foremost our guest speakers from France, Serge Berstein, Elie Cohen, Eric Duhamel and Dominique David; and also Douglas Johnson, Honorary Vice-President of ASMCF, who opened and concluded the conference in his inimitable style. I would like to thank the Institut Fran~aise, specially Renk Lacombe, for sup- porting the conference by funding the travel of two of our guest speak- ers. British Airways kindly sponsored wine and sherry receptions at the conference. ASMCF provided a welcome subsidy towards the cost of translating the four chapters by our visiting French speakers. I am grateful to the Research Committee of the Royal Holloway School of Management for financing the remainder. The translation was carried out most elegantly by Janet Fraser of the University of Westminster, and I would like to thank her for working so speedily. Thanks are due to the ASMCF Committee, especially Alec Hargreaves, for their many useful suggestions. Eric Cahm helped to design the jacket cover. Staff at the School of Management are also deserving of thanks, in particular Marianne Bowyer, for her unstinting efforts before and during the conference; June Bottomley made a sterling job of running the Book Display; and Denise Elliott organized nursing care for the late Brian Darling, who gallantly attended the conference despite illness. (The poignant moment, when our late friend and colleague Peter Morris held the microphone for Brian, ASMCF secretary over 15 years, so that he might make a toast to France, will stay in the mind of ASMCF members and conference delegates for many years to come. Both are sadly missed.) Thanks are due to Tim Farmiloe of Macmillan for his kind assistance in the production of this volume. I wish also to thank my husband Charles Harvey, Director of the School of Management, for all his help during the conference, and my children Emily and Alex for their good humour and patience. Finally, a special word is reserved for Rebecca, who, at eight months, attended part of the conference as its youngest delegate. MAIRI MACLEAN
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