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A Study of French Socialist Ideology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Theodore D. Lockwood
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FrenchSocialism has suffered from ideological uncertainty for seventy-five years. Although the party has not been a disassociated, irresponsible cult, it has never had sufficient popular support to implement its ideals by democratic action. Now, in the Fifth Republic, such a prospect seems more remote than ever. More than fifty years as a single, organized party has only led to frustration, marked in the last instance by a schism over support of General de Gaulle. Why has this happened?

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Research Article
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The Review of Politics , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , April 1959 , pp. 402 - 416
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1959

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