This is a guest post by Alistair Cole, Sciences Po, Lyon, France (alistair.cole@sciencespo-lyon.fr) The French presidency is sometimes presented as a timeless institution, a successful office that has restored stability (after the precarious disequilibrium of the Fourth Republic) and provided the model of an original hybrid, the semi-presidential regime, that has been subsequently been imitated in…
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