POL 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Inequality, Carla Bruni
27 Nov 2016
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They had 21 prime ministers in 11 years good example of an unstable political system. Introduce a pr system fragmented parties lead to a fragmented parliament. France is an old but unstable democracy (a democracy after the french revolution in 1789), very much unlike. Britain where its democratic regimes go back and forth instead of a gradual transition. After wwii, the fourth republic resulted with charles de gaulle (president from 1959-1969) If they are from different parties, this is called cohabitation therefore calling for a splitting of power, the prime minister governs and deals with domestic policy and the president still has foreign policy and military prerogatives. It is less likely, especially now, that there will be cohabitation because elections are at the same time. Fran ois hollande (2012 ), prime minister: manuel valls (same party therefore not politically important)
