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The French Polity, Fifth Edition, provides vital insight into the changing and constant character of the intricate French political scene. This book features comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of all aspects of contemporary French politics, policy, and society within a lucid institutional approach that focuses on the executive, political parties, parliament, the judiciary, and interest groups, as well as civil liberties, public policy, and administration. This edition includes an up-to-date examination of the ongoing changes affecting French politics including the 1997 election and France's relationship to the European Union.