{"product_id":"the-last-neoliberal-stefano-palombarin-9781788733571","title":"The Last Neoliberal: Macron and the Origins of France's Political Crisis","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhy centrist politics in France is bound to fail\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book analyses the French political crisis, which has entered its most acute phase in more than thirty years with the break-up of traditional left and right social blocs. Governing parties have distanced themselves from the working classes, leaving behind on the one hand, craftsmen, shop owners and small entrepreneurs disappointed by the timidity of the reforms of the neoliberal right and, on the other hand, workers and employees hostile to the neoliberal and pro-European integration orientation of the Socialist Party. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Presidency of Fran輟is Hollande was less an anomaly than the definitive failure of attempts to reconcile the social base of the left with the so-called \"modernisation\" of the French model. The project, based on the pursuit of neoliberal reforms, did not die with Hollande's failure; it was taken up and radicalised by his successor, Emmanuel Macron. This project needs a social base, the 'bourgeois bloc\", designed to overcome the right\/left divide by a new alliance between the middle and upper classes. But this, as we have seen recently on the streets of Paris and elsewhere, is a precarious process.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stefano Palombarin, Bruno Amable\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1788733576\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781788733571\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/23\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.60d","brand":"Stefano Palombarin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995236499711,"sku":"9781788733571","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fed027ae-963d-4d18-96d9-d55576bae670.jpg?v=1683334644","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-last-neoliberal-stefano-palombarin-9781788733571","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}