Presidential Power in Fifth Republic France

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The French Fifth Republic Presidency has emerged as one of the most powerful executives in western society. A study of the way in which the power of the Presidency was created and maintained, this book investigates the political skills of the office holders and the way in which the coalition supporting the Presidency has been brought together and sustained (and how it has been, on occasion, lost).The book's analysis of leadership in the Fifth Republic draws out the skills and manipulation of the successive presidents as well as the resources of the cultural and political contexts. Among the topics considered as part of the presidential system are the Constitutions, the referendum, foreign policy, Europe, May '68. Giscard d'Estaing's centrist septennate, "cohabitation" and neo-gaullism. David Bell contends is that the presidency has been created and sustained by political acts of a high order which have involved the mobilization of certain symbols, culture, and political forces.