First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Abbreviations, Preface, Introduction: Janus and Marianne, Chapter One: Governing the Economy in the Face of International Challenge: From National Developmentalism to National Crisis, Chapter Two: The Institutions of the Fifth Republic, Chapter Three: Towards a Centrist Democracy? The Fate of the French Right, Chapter Four: The French Left: A Tale of Three Beginnings, Chapter Five: Immigration and Modernization, Chapter Six: In Search of the Etat Providence, Chapter Seven: Trade Unions, Unemployment, and Regulation: 1962-1989, Chapter Eight: Educational Pluralism in the French Fifth Republic, Chapter Nine: Where Have All the Sartres Gone? The French Intelligentsia Born Again, Chapter Ten: The Foreign Policy of the Fifth Republic: Between the Nation and the World, Conclusion: Still Searching for the New France, Bibliography, Index, Contributors

James Hollifield is in the Department of Political Science, and George Ross is in the Department of Sociology at Brandeis University.