European Industrial Policy and Competitiveness: Concepts and Instruments

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction: The Mitterrand Era in Perspective....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 20-20
Moins d’Etat or Mieux d’Etat: the French Response to the Neo-Liberal Challenge....Pages 23-35
A Dirigiste End to Dirigisme?....Pages 36-45
The Crisis of the Left and the Renaissance of the Republican Model, 1981–1995....Pages 46-65
The Parti Socialiste After Mitterrand: a Half-Finished Modernization....Pages 66-84
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
EMU and Presidential Leadership under François Mitterrand....Pages 89-111
Independence and Interdependence: Foreign Policy over Mitterrand’s Two Presidential Terms....Pages 112-129
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Mitterrand’s Economic and Social Policy in Perspective....Pages 133-150
French Business in the Mitterrand Years: the Continuity of Change....Pages 151-168
Industrial Relations in France: Towards a New Social Pact?....Pages 169-184
Women and Political Representation during the Mitterrand Presidency – or the Family Romance of the Fifth Republic....Pages 185-197
The Failure of Anti-Racist Movements in France, 1981-1995....Pages 198-213
Front Matter....Pages 215-215
François Mitterrand Between Vichy and the Resistance....Pages 217-232
The Making of a President: Political Culture and Collective Memory in the Morvan....Pages 233-245
The Political Leader and his Heritage....Pages 246-260
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Mitterrand’s Grands Projets: Monuments to a Man or Monuments to an Age?....Pages 263-275
Socialist Film Policy and the Heritage Film....Pages 276-286
The State and the Broadcasting Media: All Change?....Pages 287-299
The Silence of the Left Intellectuals in Mitterrand’s France....Pages 300-313
Conclusion....Pages 314-318
Back Matter....Pages 319-336