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Contemporary Perspectives on the French Communist Party: A Dying Ideology?

Hughes, Hannah Cole
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1368205610

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2013, BA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies.
Whereas the 'Parti socialiste' is today a permanent fixture in the French party system, and has regularly been elected to government having even produced an elected president (Francois Mitterrand from 1981-1995), the PCF has not experienced the same level of longevity or electoral success. Indeed, the party has been in steady decline since the late 1970s, but remarkably has not disappeared (this is the hook that snagged my interest). One key question which arises concerns is whether or not the contemporary PCF continues to exert any real influence at all in a political system which has worked to the favor of larger, more centrist parties, with broad-based appeal. Does the PCF now exist more as an outdated ideological tradition than as a political entity with any realistic chance to bring about substantive change in a society in which capitalism is (reluctantly) embraced and firmly entrenched? This project provides a historical overview of some key moments in the PCF's existence, and also examines its ideological underpinnings, taking into account of any identifiable shifts in position over time. The investigation analyzes the PCF's current positions on a series of contemporary political, economic and social questions, such as the European Economic Crisis and the French military intervention in Mali, in order to provide some answers to these questions.
Matthew Kemp, PhD (Advisor)
71 p.
European History; Foreign Language; Political Science
Parti communiste francais; French Communist Party; Communism; France; French; politics; European Economic Crisis; Mali; French Intervention; Left-wing; Leftist; contemporary

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  • Hughes, H. C. (2013). Contemporary Perspectives on the French Communist Party: A Dying Ideology? [Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1368205610

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hughes, Hannah. Contemporary Perspectives on the French Communist Party: A Dying Ideology? 2013. Kent State University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1368205610.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hughes, Hannah. "Contemporary Perspectives on the French Communist Party: A Dying Ideology?" Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1368205610

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