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Environmental Protest and the State in France

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  • © 2002

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Authors:
  1. Graeme Hayes

    1. Department of Modern Languages, Nottingham Trent University, UK

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Part of the book series: French Politics, Society and Culture (FPSC)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction Political Opportunities and Environmental Protest in France

    • Graeme Hayes
    Pages 1-11

  3. Environmental Protest in France

    • Graeme Hayes
    Pages 12-39

  4. Political Opportunities and Policy Communities: Developing a Network Approach to State–Group Relations

    • Graeme Hayes
    Pages 40-70

  5. Institutional Change and the Fifth Republic

    • Graeme Hayes
    Pages 71-102

  6. Water Resource Management and the Loire Development Programme

    • Graeme Hayes
    Pages 103-131

  7. Vive la Loire Sauvage! Serre de la Fare and the Political Opportunity Structure of Protest

    • Graeme Hayes
    Pages 132-154

  8. Roads Policy and Multilevel Decision-Making

    • Graeme Hayes
    Pages 155-174

  9. Opportunity, Protest, and the Somport Tunnel

    • Graeme Hayes
    Pages 175-205

  10. Conclusion Explaining Environmental Protest in France

    • Graeme Hayes
    Pages 206-218

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 219-246
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This book discusses the issues and strategies which have characterized the environmental campaigns mounted against recent controversial infrastructure projects in France. Focusing on the changing nature of policymaking in the Fifth Republic as a key factor in the organization of each protest, Graeme Hayes asks why some protests succeed where others fail, and how we should understand the relationship between states and social movements in general.

Reviews

'...well-documented, relying on official documents, organizational and periodical literature, and personal interviews.' - W. Safran, Choice

'This is an excellent scholarly contribution to the literature on the state and policy-making in the Fifth Republic and, as such, will undoubtedly appeal to specialists in French politics. However, it will also be of interest to those working in the broad field of policy analysis, especially in Western Europe, and to those conducting research on new social movements. The material is clearly structured, the arguments cogently made and the writing unfailingly lucid.' - Raymond Kuhn, Political Studies Review

'Haye's book provides an excellent, up-to-date analysis of the changing forms of environmental protest in France today from a political science-based perspective, and he also makes a useful contribution to debates on social movement theory. However, the real strength of this book lies in the light it sheds on local grassroots activism and the place of this activism within the French environmental movement as a whole.' - Sarah Waters, Modern & Contemporary France

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Modern Languages, Nottingham Trent University, UK

    Graeme Hayes

About the author

GRAEME HAYES is a Lecturer in Politics and Cultural Studies at the Department of Modern Languages, Nottingham Trent University. In 2001, the Political Studies Association awarded his doctoral thesis the Walter Bagehot prize for best dissertation in Government and Public Administration.

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