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    Between the party and the European Union? The regulation of working time in France

    Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis G. (2012) Between the party and the European Union? The regulation of working time in France. French Politics, Culture & Society 30 (1), pp. 88-110. ISSN 1537-6370.

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    Abstract

    Do parties matter when EU policy is implemented in France? This article examines this question first in the context of cleavage theory and the literature on party positioning on European integration that draws attention to the origin and the nature of party preferences, and second in light of empirical evidence from the implementation of the Working Time Directive in France. It shows that, when faced with the same issue, governments of different ideological orientation responded in a way that reflected their historically defined référentiel rather than an EU Diktat. The argument here, then, is that far from ending domestic political contestation on the Left-Right axis, European integration and its concrete domestic manifestations in France are in fact subject to it.

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    Item Type: Article
    Additional Information: This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedited version of an article published in French Politics, Culture & Society. The definitive publisher-authenticated version v.30(1), pp.88-110 is available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/fpcs.2012.300105
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): Working time, implementation, party government, gauche plurielle, employment policy
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences
    Depositing User: Administrator
    Date Deposited: 06 Aug 2012 10:58
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 16:58
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/5025

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