{"title":"The French Communist Party","authors":"D. Bell","doi":"10.7765/9781526137746.00011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526137746.00011","url":null,"abstract":"The Communist Party had commandeered the cultural high ground of revolutionary Marxism and had imposed its own brand, Marxism-Leninism, as the orthodox version. At the Liberation, the French Communist Party was one of the big three political parties along with the Christian democratic Mouvement Républicain Populaire (MRP) and the Socialist Section Française de l'Internationale Ouvrière (SFIO). It It came to be seen as a patriotic, reformist and 'modern' national party, while its rivals, notably the Socialists, were afflicted with a 'cultural cringe' when faced by the Parti Communiste Français's penetration of working-class milieux. It was the intrusion of the big Communist Party into the French Party system that frustrated the bipolar development in the Fourth Republic. Charles de Gaulle's politics gave the Communist Party the real opportunity to promote the coalition of the left, which it had demanded after 1956.","PeriodicalId":258755,"journal":{"name":"The French party system","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134424697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"List of contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.7765/9781526137746.00005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526137746.00005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":258755,"journal":{"name":"The French party system","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125122333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From the Gaullist movement to the president’s party","authors":"A. Knapp","doi":"10.7765/9781526137746.00018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526137746.00018","url":null,"abstract":"The Gaullist party of the early Fifth Republic, despite its nationwide organisation and membership, was materially far more dependent on its positions within the state than its leaders cared to admit. This chapter considers what kept the mainstream right apart before 2002. It shows how a more favourable context was used to advance a concrete merger project, in the approach to and aftermath of the 2002 elections. Alain Madelin never attempted to impose a line on his Démocratie Libérale (DL) deputies, almost all of whom rallied to the Union en Mouvement (UEM) project. The president's party was the fruit of a project undertaken outside of, even against, the leaders of all other established parties of the moderate right. The chapter assesses both the Union pour la Majorité Présidentielle's (UMP), longer-term prospects, and its more general impact on the French party system.","PeriodicalId":258755,"journal":{"name":"The French party system","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122155361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Europe and the French party system","authors":"J. Evans","doi":"10.7765/9781526137746.00021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526137746.00021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":258755,"journal":{"name":"The French party system","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117157674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"List of abbreviations","authors":"","doi":"10.7765/9781526137746.00007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526137746.00007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":258755,"journal":{"name":"The French party system","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129320989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}