POL SCI 147F Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Graduated Response, Civil Liberties, Pragmatism
6 Dec 2015
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Under the heyday of french republican model the gaullist: normalization of the french party system: bipolarization, specificity of french system: resurgent ideology. 2 rival coalitions: one for the left and right. Parties of the right: rpr + udf: prp: always the dominant party; gaullist, took most of the centrists, chirac & sarkozy, udf (union of french democracy): fusion of christian democrats, radicals, and radicals, giscard. Parties of the left: ps + pcf: pcf: communist party of france, long been dominant party of left, closely aligned with, ps: socialist party, revived during the 1970s and later gained dominance, mitterand and. A normal party system: 2 governing coalitions, left & right, alteration in office both left & right have governed for good amount of time, elections, not party maneuvering, has determined the govt. Left & right both move to the middle, away from extremes of monarchism, fascism, and.
