Private Power and Centralization in France : : The Notaires and the State / / Ezra N. Suleiman.

By examining the relationship between the notaires, members of a significant French legal profession with deep roots in French history, and the state, Ezra Suleiman demonstrates that clientelism exists and may be more dangerous in a centralized state than in a decentralized one.Originally published...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1988
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 828
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Physical Description:1 online resource (362 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • PART ONE. The Problem of the State
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. State Structures and State Power
  • PART TWO. The Legacy of History
  • 3. The Eternal Dilemma
  • 4. The Eternal Crisis
  • PART THREE. Marshaling Forces
  • 5. The Need for Change
  • 6. The Modernization of the Profession: Changing a Mentality
  • 7. The Modernization of the Profession: Information and the Computer
  • 8. Organization
  • PART FOUR. Policymaking under Centralization
  • 9. Socialism and the Profession
  • 10. Socialism and the Reform of the Profession
  • 11. The Profession and the State
  • 12. The Profession's Bankers
  • 13. Planning the Future: The Notaires and the Cause des Depots
  • PART FIVE. Conclusion
  • 14. Centralization and the Failure of a Reform
  • Glossary
  • Index