Pluralism and the Idea of the Republic in France

Front Matter....Pages i-x
A Pluralist History of France?....Pages 1-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Liberal Republicanism after the Terror: Charles-Guillaume Théremin and Germaine de Staël....Pages 25-40
Liberal Pluralism in the Early Nineteenth Century: Benjamin Constant and Germaine de Staël....Pages 41-65
A Strange Liberalism: Freedom and Aristocracy in French Political Thought....Pages 66-84
P.-J. Proudhon: Pluralism, Justice and Society....Pages 85-98
Pluralism’s Political Conditions: Social Realism and the Revolutionary Tradition in Pierre Leroux, P.-J. Proudhon and Alfred Fouillée....Pages 99-121
Utopian Pluralism in Twentieth-Century France....Pages 122-137
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Electoral Antipluralism and Electoral Pluralism in France, from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1914....Pages 141-160
Associations and Political Pluralism: The Effects of the Law of 1901....Pages 161-178
Vision and Reality: Joseph Paul-Boncour and Third Republic Pluralism....Pages 179-197
Regionalism, Federalism and Internationalism in First World War France....Pages 198-214
State Sovereignty in Question: The French Jurists between the Reorganization of the International System and European Regionalism, 1920–1950....Pages 215-230
Pluralism, Parliament and the Possibility of a Sénat fédérateur, 1940–1969....Pages 231-247
Epilogue: French Politics, History, and a New Perspective on the Jacobin State....Pages 248-263
Back Matter....Pages 264-270