Democracy in Modern France Book

	Acknowledgements
1	Introduction: the contested notion of democracy	1
I	The context of the debate	1
II	Exploring democracy	8
	Democracy and modernity	11
	Liberal and direct democracy	13
	Rethinking democracy	20
2	Democracy and the legacy of revolution	29
	Modernity and the Enlightenment	32
	The Revolution of 1789	38
	Republicanism and the weakness of liberalism	44
	Direct democracy and the labour movement	52
3	Conflict, coercion and violence	61
	Conflict, violence and democracy	63
	The tradition of conflict and violence	67
	The revolutionary moment	77
	State violence and coercion	80
	Violence and democracy: a radical view	84
4	The institutions and structures of formal politics	91
	Political structures and stable capitalism	93
	The Constitution of the Fifth Republic	98
	Elections and the people	103
	Corruption	109
5	The new liberalism	117
	France and the historical weakness of liberalism	119
	Conditions for the emergence of the new liberalism	127
	Democracy and the new liberalism	135
	Constructing a liberal hegemony	142
6	The study of politics in France	149
	Natural science and social science	150
	The development of political science	154
	Beyond the mainstream	160
	Bourdieu and political science	161
7	Conclusions	169
	Capitalism and the people	171
	A new militancy?	173
	The elections of 2002	179
	References and bibliography	185
App. A	A Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, 1789	205
App. B	Regimes in France since 1789	209
App. C	Results of the 2002 Presidential Elections	211
	Index	213