title: French Politics: Debates and Controversies
author:  Robert Elgie 
description: Robert Elgie is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Nottingham. He has published widely in the field of French, European and comparative politics. His previous publications include <em>The Role of the Prime Minister in France</em> and <em>Semi-Presidentialism in Europe</em>.<br />Steven Griggs is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Staffordshire University. He has published widely in journals including <em>West European Politics</em>, <em>Parliamentary Affairs</em> and <em>Modern and Contemporary France</em>.
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  JACQUES ELLUL 
  Professor of the History and Sociology of Institutions 
  The Facuity of Law and Economic Sciences 
  The University of Bordeaux 
  Introduction by John Wilkinson 
  Senior Fellow at the 
  Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions 
  Santa Barbara, California 
  Translated by Dennis Pardee 
  WILLIAM 
  B. EERDMANS PUBLISHING COMPANY 
  GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN 
  
  Copyright © 1970 by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 
  All rights reserved 
  Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 70-103446 
  Printed in the United States of America 
  Translated from the French Sans Feu ni Lieu 
  
  In 