How do European states adjust to international markets? Why do French governments of both left and right face a public confidence crisis? In this book, leading experts on France chart the dramatic changes that have taken place in its polity, economy and society since the 1980s and develop an analysis of social change relevant to all democracies.

RICHARD BALME Professor of Political Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
SUZANNE BERGER Raphael Dorman and Helen Starbuck Professor of Political Science, MIT, Cambridge, USA
LOUIS CHAUVEL Professor of Sociology, Sciences-Po Paris, France
MICHEL GOYER Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK
GÈRARD GRUNBERG Deputy Director and Vice-Provost for Research, Sciences-Po Paris (Institut d'Etudes Politiques), France
VIRGINIE GUIRAUDON Research Fellow, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Lille, France
MICHEL LALLEMENT Professor of Sociology, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France
PATRICK LE GALÈS CNRS Senior Research Fellow, CEVIPOF and Associate Professor of Politics and Sociology, Sciences Po, Paris, France
ANDY SMITH Research Fellow, CERVL-Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux, France