Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- A Pluralist History of France? / H.S. Jones & J. Wright -- PART I: THE IDEA OF THE PLURAL REPUBLIC -- Liberal Republicanism after the Terror : Charles-Guillaume Theremin and Germaine de Stael / A. Jainchill -- Liberal Pluralism in the early Nineteenth Century : Benjamin Constant and Germaine de Stael / K.S. Vincent -- A Strange Liberalism : Freedom and Aristocracy in French Political Thought / A. de Dijn -- P.-J. Proudhon : Pluralism, Justice and Society / G. Navet -- Pluralism's Political Conditions : Social Realism and the Revolutionary Tradition in Pierre Leroux, P.-J. Proudhon and Alfred Fouillee / M. Behrant -- Utopian Pluralism in Twentieth-Century France / J. Humphreys -- PART II: THE PLURAL REPUBLIC -- Electoral Anti-Pluralism and Electoral Pluralism in France, from the mid-Nineteenth Century to 1914 / N. Roussellier -- Associations and Political Pluralism : the Effects of the Law of 1901 / M. della Sudda -- Vision and Reality : Joseph Paul-Boncour and Third Republic Pluralism / J. Wright -- Regionalism, Federalism and Internationalism in First World War France / C. Bouchard -- State Sovereignty in Question : The French Jurists between the Reorganisation of the International System and European Regionalism (1920-1950) / J. Guieu -- Pluralism, Parliament and Constitutional Moments : The Possibility of a 'Senat federateur,' 1940-1969 / P. Smith -- Epilogue: French Politics, History, and a New Perspective on the Jacobin State / A. Chatriot.
Summary:
"The idea of the centralized state has played a powerful role in shaping French republicanism. But for two hundred years, many have tried to find other ways of being French and Republican. These essays challenge the traditional account, bringing together new insights from leading scholars"-- Provided by publisher.
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