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Socialism and the Interdependent Economy: Industrial Policy-making under the Mitterrand Presidency

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Vincent Wright
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IN MAY-JUNE 1981 THE LEFT CAME TO POWER IN FRANCE WITH an ambitious, if not altogether coherent or consistent, programme of economic expansion, redistribution, industrial relations reform, liberalization and decentralization. Unlike previous Left-wing governments which had proved to be unstable and transient, the newly formed government in 1981 was built on solid electoral and governmental foundations: the Socialists had captured the Presidency, enjoyed alone a majority in the National Assembly and provided the bulk of the Government. That government could look forward to at least five years of uninterrupted rule. So long-term structural reforms could be envisaged.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , 01 July 1984 , pp. 287 - 303
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1984

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References

1 See my ‘The Change in France’ in Government and Opposition, Vol. 16, No. 4, 1981, pp. 414–31.

2 See the chapter by Green, Diana in Wright, V., Continuity and Change in France, London, Allen and Unwin, 1984.Google Scholar

3 See the invaluable article by Hall, Peter A., ‘Socialism in One Country: Mitterrand and the Struggle to Define a New Economic Policy for France’, to appear in Philip Cerny and Martin Schain (eds), The State and Public Policy in France, London, Frances Pinter.Google Scholar

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6 A point well made by Hogwood, Brian in a somewhat different context: see his Government and Shipbuilding: The Politics of Industrial Change, Farnborough, Saxon House, 1979, pp. 275–7.Google Scholar

7 Haager, Wolfgang, ‘Industrial Policy, Trade Policy, and European Social Democracy’, in Pinder, John (ed.), National Industrial Strategies and the World Economy, Totowa (N-J), Allenheld, Osmun & Co, 1982, p. 243.Google Scholar

8 One of the themes of Stora, Benjamin, Crise, Puissance, Perspectives de la Sidérugie Mondiale, Paris, Economica, 1979.Google Scholar

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10 Galambert, Patrice, Les sept paradoxes de notre politique industrielle, Paris, Cerf, 1982.Google Scholar