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3. Immobilism in the French Fourth Republic

Author : Michael Haas

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Polling data show that the French Fourth Republic failed because political parties and pressure groups represented so many different sectors of the public that parliamentarians were unable to achieve productive or stable governments. The resulting immobilism prompted a coup, which led to a new constitution to give more power to the executive president. There are many parallels with the immobilism of the current American political system, as described in detail within Chap. 5.

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Title: Immobilism in the French Fourth Republic
Author: Michael Haas
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Why Democracies Flounder and Fail
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-74069-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-74070-6

Copyright Year: 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74070-6_3