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Lawyers, Judges, and the Obstinate State: The French Case and an Agenda for Comparative Politics
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2020
unpublished
In the field of comparative politics, France is often taken to exemplify the resilience of the centralized modern state. Stanley Hoffmann popularized this thesis by highlighting the French state's "obstinacy" despite postwar reform efforts. This article revisits Hoffmann's obstinate state thesis by tracing how lawyers and judges shaped French political development. I demonstrate that continuity in French officials' claims to centralized power belie a deeper story of how legal actors catalyze
doi:10.33774/apsa-2020-tvgh9
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