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	Index of political blogs
		Many are created by journalists, academics, and those working in politics, for whom sounding off to others is often an imperative.
		The vast majority are probably by people who are not part of the opinion/analysis industry and just want to let off steam and/or be visible on the net.
		If you think I have missed an especially interesting and informative political blog, please email me with the details.
	www.psr.keele.ac.uk /blogindex.htm (1790 words)

	Modernity, Politics and Democracy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Political divisions among the founders of the Third Republic were foreshadowed by Edgar Quinet’s attempt to demonstrate that republicans need not accept or try to repeat all aspects of "the" revolution (e.g., de-christianization, the Terror, or revolutionary war).
		When the French use the concept of a democracy of opinion, there is an overtone of critical distance that sometimes expresses disdain for the role accorded to mere opinion, sometimes for the role of democracy.
		Public opinion loves scandal; investigative journalism (which was not typical of the French press) needs leaks to feed that opinion, while the investigating magistrates can point to the outraged cries of the public when their political superiors try to restrain their zealous pursuit of corruption.
	www.sunysb.edu /philosophy/research/howard_7.html (9554 words)

	Political Corruption: What is political corruption?
		Political corruption can be defined both with reference to the main actors involved, namely persons at the highest levels of the political system, and the purpose of the corrupt behaviour, namely to sustain the hold on power.
		Political corruption for power preservation purposes leads to bad governance in the form of unaccountable and favouritist political decisions; manipulated, weak and distorted institutions; lack of transparency and accountability; immunity and impunity; and elections that are not free and fair.
		The distinction between political and bureaucratic corruption is rather ambiguous, because it depends on the separation of politics from administration and the separation of an individual's status as a public official and his/her status as a private person.
	www.u4.no /themes/political-corruption/introduction.cfm (4774 words)

	Working Paper: Corruption via Party Financing in France: Véronique Pujas
		The scandal took a new turn in Autumn 2000 with the release of a report of the Swiss magistrate, Paul Perraudin, in which it was alleged that corrupt dealings had occurred to increase public financial support for Elf's acquisition of a former East German plant to rebuild a refinery in Leuna.
		Scandal is then possibly used at a later stage as a political weapon when the disclosure of illegal practices emerges in the public arena.
		Proof of the efficiency of media pressure on politics is the mutual use by judges and journalists of media coverage as a counterbalance to the political pressure that is a hurdle to some judicial investigations.
	www.transparency.org /working_papers/country/france_paper.html (6515 words)

	Roundtable on France
		One reason for French paralysis that emerged strongly from all of the panels is that France is an increasingly divided and polarized society.
		Combined with numerous corruption scandals, the general result is an increasing distrust of the mainstream parties and fears of domestic unrest and the rise of extremist parties on both the left and the right.
		French citizens have long looked to and trusted the state to protect them from all varieties of ill, be they economic or military.
	brookings.edu /fp/cuse/events/20060307.htm (1296 words)

	The French Exception
		The French accord great attention to what others think about them, and provided that comment is securely-based from the intellectual point of view, they will happily argue the toss with charm and perception.
		French officials will readily say in private that the CAP is wasteful and that they have grave misgivings about the financial consequences of further enlargement of the Community so far as agriculture is concerned.
		Even though French farmers now account for little more than 3 per cent of the working population (at the time of the creation of the CAP, the figure was 15 per cent), their political clout has hardly diminished, essentially because they carry public sympathy.
	www.culturekiosque.com /nouveau/books/rhebooks4.html (1370 words)

	French political scandals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1934 - the Stavisky Affair, embezzlement and political corruption.
		The Canard enchaîné satirical newspaper fought to bring to light evidence of alleged corruption during President Jacques Chirac's tenure as mayor of Paris.
		1987-1988 - Iskandar Safa and the Hostage Scandal involving Prime Minister Jacques Chirac and Interior Minister Charles Pasqua.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/French_political_scandals (348 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: French Scandal Fricassee by Kenneth R. Timmerman
		Political scandals in the United States are all about sex, whereas in France they are all about money.
		In America, the French note, it’s scandalous for a politician to have sex with anyone other than his/her lawfully-wedded spouse; whereas in France, it’s considered scandalous for a man who has climbed to the pinnacles of power not to also climb into bed with his mistress.
		The French media has had a field day with the story in recent weeks, printing the entire 9,000 word transcript of Rondot’s deposition before the judge, the text of his original note, Villepin’s denials that he would never, ever try to smear his political rival, and more.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22618 (1236 words)

	Disarmament Diplomacy: - Vers Une Défense Nouvelle:
		The French changes were neither strategic nor the product of a genuine review and to understand them it is necessary to relate them to the wider process of defence policy adaptation since the end of the Cold War.
		The second is the concern of the French government to explain defence thinking to the French public which arises from the direct relationship (albeit eroding) in France between individual and State.
		The latter is limited by not seeking wider input into French defence policy, but is clearly preferable to a situation in which few citizens are aware of what is being done in the name of their defence.
	www.acronym.org.uk /dd/dd29/29french.htm (2639 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| International \| Vive la République -- for now
		The incumbent French president received the highest ever vote for a candidate in French presidential elections, eclipsing the 58.21 per cent won by Georges Pompidou in the 1969 elections or the 55.20 per cent gained by General de Gaulle, founder of the Fifth Republic, in 1965.
		Chirac's personal record also came under scrutiny, with a series of corruption scandals that implicated highly-placed figures in the RPR and caused an investigating magistrate to issue a writ against Chirac in connection with allegations of corrupt practices at the Paris City Council when he was mayor in the 1980s.
		Already French commentators are discussing the formation of a Sixth Republic to replace the Fifth, possibly on the model of either the American presidential system or the British parliamentary one, both of which concentrate legislative power and avoid the fragmentation that has been a feature of French political life in recent years.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2002/585/in81.htm (1121 words)

	Political scandal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A political scandal is a scandal in which politicians or government officials engage in various illegal or unethical practices.
		A political scandal can involve the breaking of the nation's laws or plotting to do so.
		Some political scandals are sex scandals involving a politician.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Political_scandal (76 words)

	"LePen's National Front: A Threat to the Jews of France" by Robert O. Freedman
		Initially founded in 1972 by a group on the extreme right in French politics, including French members of the Nazi Waffen-SS and former members of the terrorist OAS Algerian settler organization, the National Front did not begin to make a real mark on the French political scene until the early 1980s.
		It is the leaders of the major political parties who must play the key role in weakening the appeal of the National Front, such as Lionel Jospin, France's new Socialist prime minister who came to power as a result of the May-June 1997 elections.
		Jospin's decision to slow down the process of meeting the European currency requirements may also demonstrate to the French population that he is acting to defend French interests against the Europeans, and together with his prickly criticism of the U.S., this should strengthen his position as the protector of France.
	www.jcpa.org /jl/vp370.htm (2772 words)

	Water and Power: The French Connection - Social and Economic Policy - Global Policy Forum
		Monod, a close adviser to French President Jacques Chirac, was accused in testimony during the trials of having instigated the corruption, but he denied those accusations and was never charged.
		Suez and Vivendi have close ties to the French government; the water companies appear to be crucial sources of income for the political parties, particularly Chirac's Rassemblement pour la République (RPR).
		Closer politically to home, as early as 1985 investigations by the Cour des Comptes, the federal comptroller, found that the Paris mayor's office had signed a contract with the Compagnie Générale des Eaux (now Vivendi) and with Suez that allowed the two to indulge in fraudulent accounting.
	www.globalpolicy.org /socecon/tncs/2003/0204frenchwater.htm (3479 words)

	March 12, 2003
		French industry and business has aggressively and consistently pursued business opportunities with Saddam Hussein’s Baathist Party-controlled industry and economy of Iraq, with the blessings and endorsement of the French government.
		Chirac and his government readily agreed to the objectively racist and anti-Semitic “requirements” of the Iraqis that “all persons of the Jewish race or the Mosaic religion” be precluded from participating in the program either in Iraq or in France.
		Chirac) declared him immune from prosecution until 2007 for his role in party-funding scandals during the 1990s, there is no constraint or impediment on your organizations opening an investigation of the matters presented herein.
	www.judicialwatch.org /cases/95/chirac.htm (1990 words)

	January 8-12, 2001 - Global Policy Forum - Email 'Listserv' News
		In recent weeks, leading French political and military figures have argued in the press about whether anyone is responsible for French forces' use of torture in Algeria during the independence war.
		The French parliamentarians still have much work left to do, since in the heart of Europe there are eight other micro states offering such services -- in addition to Switzerland and the many offshore opportunities to be found in the City of London.
		Political leaders can be mesmerized by "fl gold" (petroleum) as they can by the yellow variety, hence the huge military and strategic focus on the Middle East, where most of the world's oil reserves are to be found.
	www.globalpolicy.org /visitctr/lst-srv/2001/ls0108.htm (1211 words)

	A Savage War of Peace
		In the film, the leadership of the French army dissects and represses the insurgency as Algerian partisans plan and execute their actions, often using violent means to achieve their goals.
		The brutality of the war was again exposed in November 2001 when a former French general, who admitted in a book published in May 2001 to the torture and execution of dozens of Algerians during the war, was put on trial and found guilty.
		French tactics in Algeria lost the battle for the hearts and minds of Algerians, and in the end, the war itself.
	www.gnn.tv /articles/2397/A_Savage_War_of_Peace (2525 words)

	Alibris: Scandals
		Meredith was interested in the interplay between politics and love, and in the way public and private lives intersect and...
		Scandals in the House of Birds: Shamans and Priests on Lake Atitlan
		Based on a thirty year span of fieldwork in the Lake Atitlan region of Guatemala, SCANDALS IN THE HOUSE OF BIRDS is a multi voiced epic of a sacred crime, and its tangled mythic, religious, and political ramifications.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Scandals (1189 words)

	Support for United Nations Justifiably Weakened by Financial, Sex and Human Rights Scandals
		These scandals show that the U.N. is a deeply flawed organization in desperate need of serious reform.
		The scandal leaving the flest mark on the U.N. is the Oil-for-Food scandal.
		The many scandals feed an image of the U.N. as a body that is incapable of advancing its founding goals.
	www.nationalcenter.org /NPA545UNScandals.html (4881 words)

	The Mitterrand years.
		Under the presidency of Giscard d'Estaing, as the election neared at the end of the seventies, scandals kept breaking out that undermined the right wing coalition that had ruled France for more than twenty years.
		As this slow disintegration of the right was unfolding, François Mitterrand had managed to take over the political reigns of the French socialist party.
		This was the beginning of a new political era.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/france_and_the_french/27970 (440 words)

	Political Corruption
		French spies have lost a secret war chest of 25m meant to fund a government-in-exile in the event of invasion or nuclear attack.
		The trial of former French foreign minister Roland Dumas ended on March 21 but the verdict is not expected until May. He is facing two years in jail and a multimillion-franc fine if he is found guilty of misusing funds from the oil company Elf-Aquitaine.
		Ahmad Chalabi, the man favoured by the Pentagon to succeed Saddam Hussein was tried in his absence and sentenced by a Jordanian court to 22 years' jail on 31 charges of embezzlement, theft, misuse of depositor funds and currency speculation in connection with the collapse of his Petra Bank.
	www.ex.ac.uk /~RDavies/arian/scandals/political.html (6591 words)

	Political Scandal Fuzzes Balladur's Image
		The latest French political scandal might have been simply another episode in a wave of business-related bribery cases except for one feature: Prime Minister Edouard Balladur seems to have allowed his presidential ambitions to harm his image as an untouchable leader.
		Balladur faltered in handling the affair has titillated the French political class by suggesting that the prime minister may stumble as the campaign heats up ahead of spring elections.
		Balladur's gesture was widely viewed as a political favor, of the sort that no longer can taken for granted in France.
	www.iht.com /articles/1994/10/01/france.php (377 words)

	Hidden scandals of the beef brotherhood
		It wasn't French lamb at all; it was old New Zealand mutton which had in its life served for years to produce sheep milk.
		FRENCH butchers reported a sharp drop in the price of lamb yesterday after European officials announced plans to ban certain offal from sheep, goat and deer.
		Three weeks ago, the French Government announced a ban on "all sales of the central nervous system of ruminants", including brains and spinal columns of cows, sheep and goats, after recommendations from scientists.
	www.mad-cow.org /~tom/french_beef_ind.html (3052 words)

	HARD-BOILED MYSTERIES - French crime films: noir films -2
		In the 1930s France was plagued by economic instability and political scandals, it witnessed the hope and later the defeat of the Popular Front, the rise of fascism in Europe and the impending threat of war.
		Actor Jean Gabin was the perfect embodiment of the romantic fatalistic hero that dominated the French films of the period.
		The young critics-turned-filmmakers were outspoken in their rejection of "dad’s cinema" and "cinema of quality" as represented by the older generation of French directors.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/6384/noirfilmsfr2.html (1322 words)

	World Scandals
		LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Breaking his silence on a scandal that has jolted the Republican Party, U.S. President George W. Bush said on Tuesday he was disgusted by former Republi...
		The stories are part of the fabric of the French Revolution: a country rose up to challenge the extravagance of the French court, enraged, in part, by claims of Queen M...
		The leaders of Hewlett-Packard pleaded ignorance of the tactics used by private detectives hunting down the source of boardroom leaks, as the spying scandal claimed a f...
	archive.wn.com /2006/10/04/1400/worldscandals (547 words)

	Scandals: Whose job is it, anyway?
		, MD stated, citing an earlier French article, that "Eight cases of infarction have been reported in men over 50 in the second week after vaccination for smallpox.
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	www.vaccinationnews.com /Scandals/2003/Apr_25/Scandal62.htm (754 words)

	USATODAY.com - Extremist qualifies for French presidential race (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For months, French pollsters and columnists had assumed that Chirac and Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin would face off in the election's final round May 5.
		For months, the French have expressed disgust with their politicians, and Sunday's polling drew little more than 22% of the electorate.
		Although their surest predictions about the elections had been upturned, French political analysts said Chirac would likely win the May 5 contest against Le Pen.
	www.usatoday.com /news/near.htm (487 words)

	France Says 'Oui' to Chirac's 'Non' on Iraq War
		Chirac may be scorned from Washington to Wichita as a self-interested coward, and he was depicted as a worm Thursday in a caricature in Britain's tabloid Sun.
		What is clear is that Chirac's popular image could not be more different from what it was a year ago, when he was battling a slump in the polls, long- simmering scandals and expectations that he would be ousted from office by his bookish leftist prime minister, Lionel Jospin.
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	www.commondreams.org /headlines03/0222-04.htm (1346 words)

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