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Political leadership is a universal social institution, but is one of the least understood. This book is a study of political leadership using the French case. It is, therefore, a contribution to comparative political leadership studies and to the analysis of French politics (in which, in the view of these authors, leadership politics plays an almost inordinately important role). What follows is a study of the French Fifth Republic from within the field of political leadership research. Our study also deals with a series of problems related to political culture, state resources, party politics and party systems, political power, and the nature of the relationship between politics and myth. This book can be read as a contribution to the study of leadership and of Fifth Republic politics. The individual chapters, moreover, can be taken as distinct contributions to the continuing discussion of each of the Presidents, and their significance for one another, and to issues of governance. Taken together and comparatively, they constitute a presidential topography of the Fifth Republic.
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Bell, D.S., Gaffney, J. (2013). Introduction: the Presidency in the French Fifth Republic. In: Bell, D.S., Gaffney, J. (eds) The Presidents of the French Fifth Republic. French Politics, Society and Culture Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137302847_1
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