Le radicalisme dans le parti socialiste aujourd’hui

in French Politics, Culture & Society
Author:
Gérard Grunberg

Search for other papers by Gérard Grunberg in
Current site
Google Scholar
PubMed
Close
View More View Less
Restricted access

The radical component is still alive in French socialism. It finds expression notably in the anti-liberal economic perspective that the international financial crisis has recently reawakened. It is also expressed in the critique of the institutions of the Fifth Republic that Nicolas Sarkozy's "hyper-presidency" has revived. The tendency toward radicalization, however, is also heavily constrained these days for several reasons. The Socialist Party, first of all, has become a party of government. The centrality of the presidential election in the French system and the presidentialist character that the Socialist Party has taken on make a presidential victory a top priority for the party. Too radical a discourse can become, for such a party, counter-productive. The economic environment, moreover, and the situation the country faces makes less and less credible as a political objective the large-scale, state-led redistribution that has traditionally been how French socialism has translated its radicalism into a program of government.

  • Collapse
  • Expand

Metrics

All Time Past Year Past 30 Days
Abstract Views 74 39 1
Full Text Views 12 0 0
PDF Downloads 19 0 0