According to received wisdom parties have played a mainly
destructive role in French political development. Of questionable
legitimacy, pursuing narrow sectarian goals, often corruptly, they
have brought about division, weakness and the collapse of regimes.
A proper reading of history suggests differently. By combining
historical research and contemporary political science theory about
party, the author shows that for over a century party has irrigated
French democracy in often invisible ways, brokering working
compromises between groups divided strongly along social, political
and cultural lines. The key to this success is the party system,
which allowed for a high degree of collusion and cooptation between
political elites, rhetoric notwithstanding. This hidden logic has
persisted to this day despite the advent of presidentialism and
remains the key to the continuing prosperity of French democracy.
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