Pluralism and the Idea of the Republic in France

1. Front Matter

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2. A Pluralist History of France?

   1. A Pluralist History of France?

      • Julian Wright, H. S. Jones

      Pages 1-22

3. The Idea of the Plural Republic

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Liberal Republicanism after the Terror: Charles-Guillaume Théremin and Germaine de Staël

      • Andrew Jainchill

      Pages 25-40

   3. Liberal Pluralism in the Early Nineteenth Century: Benjamin Constant and Germaine de Staël

      • K. Steven Vincent

      Pages 41-65

   4. A Strange Liberalism: Freedom and Aristocracy in French Political Thought

      • Annelien de Dijn

      Pages 66-84

   5. P.-J. Proudhon: Pluralism, Justice and Society

      • Georges Navet

      Pages 85-98

   6. Pluralism’s Political Conditions: Social Realism and the Revolutionary Tradition in Pierre Leroux, P.-J. Proudhon and Alfred Fouillée

      • Michael C. Behrent

      Pages 99-121

   7. Utopian Pluralism in Twentieth-Century France

      • Joshua Humphreys

      Pages 122-137

4. The Plural Republic

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139

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   2. Electoral Antipluralism and Electoral Pluralism in France, from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1914

      • Nicolas Roussellier

      Pages 141-160

   3. Associations and Political Pluralism: The Effects of the Law of 1901

      • Magali della Sudda

      Pages 161-178

   4. Vision and Reality: Joseph Paul-Boncour and Third Republic Pluralism

      • Julian Wright

      Pages 179-197

   5. Regionalism, Federalism and Internationalism in First World War France

      • Carl Bouchard

      Pages 198-214

   6. State Sovereignty in Question: The French Jurists between the Reorganization of the International System and European Regionalism, 1920–1950

      • Jean-Michel Guieu

      Pages 215-230

   7. Pluralism, Parliament and the Possibility of a Sénat fédérateur, 1940–1969

      • Paul Smith

      Pages 231-247

   8. Epilogue: French Politics, History, and a New Perspective on the Jacobin State

      • Alain Chatriot

      Pages 248-263

5. Back Matter

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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.

• constitution
• Europe
• federalism
• First World War
• France
• history
• law
• liberty
• nationalism
• parliament
• political thought
• revolution
• sovereignty
• The Republic
• Third Republic

• University of Durham, UK

  Julian Wright

• University of Manchester, UK

  H. S. Jones

MICHAEL C. BEHRENT Assistant Professor in the History Department at Appalachian State University in North Carolina, USA CARL BOUCHARD Associate Professor of History at Université de Montréal, Canada ALAIN CHATRIOTResearch Fellow (Chargé de recherche) in History at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, France ANNELIEN DE DIJNAssistant Professor in Political Theory at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands MAGALI DELLA SUDDATenured Researcher (Chargée de recherche) at the Centre Emile Durkheim Bordeaux (CNRS), France JEAN-MICHEL GUIEULecturer in Contemporary History at the University of Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France JOSHUA HUMPHREYSSenior Associate and Director of the Center for Social Philanthropy at Tellus Institute in Boston, USA ANDREW JAINCHILL Associate Professor of History at Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada GEORGES NAVETProfessor of Philosophy at the University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, France NICOLAS ROUSSELLIER Associate Professor at Sciences Po, Paris, and Professor at the French School, Middlebury College, Vermont, USA K. STEVEN VINCENT Professor of History at North Carolina State University, USA

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