Presidents, Prime Ministers and Majorities in the French Fifth Republic

Sergiu Mişcoiu is Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of European Studies, Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.Pierre-Emmanuel Guigo is Associate Professor of History at the University Paris East Créteil, France.

• Chapter 1. Introduction. Presidents, Prime Ministers and Majorities in the French Fifth Republic. Making a Way into a Multidimensional Puzzle.- Chapter 2. Charles de Gaulle (1962-1965, 1965-1969). The Birth of the Modern French Monarchy, the Fifth Republic.-Chapter 3. Rooting the Fifth Republic: Georges Pompidou (1969-1974). To Be Or Not to Be a Monarchy.- Chapter 4. Valéry Giscard d’Estaing (1974-1981): “France Shall Not Fall Back into the Party Regime”.- Chapter 5. The Last Republican Monarch: The Longest Double Presidencies of François Mitterrand (1981-1988, 1988-1995).- Chapter 6. Jacques Chirac (1995-2002, 2002-2007). Social Gaullism, the Longest Cohabitation, and the Spectrum of the Far-Right.- Chapter 7. Nicolas Sarkozy (2007-2012). Voluntarism, Hyper-Presidency, and Contestation.- Chapter 8. The Presidency at an Impasse: The Five-Year Term of François Hollande (2012-2017).- Chapter 9. The Art of Casting: Emmanuel Macron, His Prime Ministers and His Majority (2017-2022).