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Pluralist thought and the state in Britain and France, 1900-25

Author

Laborde, Cécile.

Title

Pluralist thought and the state in Britain and France, 1900-25 / Cécile Laborde.

Format

Book

Published

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Description

vii, 240 pages ; 23 cm.

Uniform series

St. Antony's series.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-237) and index.

Contents

• Types of Pluralism
• State and society
• Social regulation: organic v. contractual
• State regulation: co-ordination v. integration
• Contractual Co-ordination: Edouard Berth, Maxime Leroy and Anarchist Pluralism
• The individual and the state: radical anti-statism
• Syndicalist society: contractual anarchism
• The individual and the group: syndicalist individualism
• Organic Co-ordination: John Neville Figgis and Whig Pluralism
• Individuals and Gemeinschaft-like groups
• Group personality
• The state and group liberalism
• Contractual Integration: Harold Laski, G.D.H. Cole and Socialist Pluralism
• The state demystified
• The participatory state
• Conclusion: individualism and pluralism
• Organic Integration: Leon Duguit and Corporatist Pluralism
• The intimation of a pluralist state
• The rehabilitation of the monist state
• Status groups and the organic state
• Pluralism in National Context
• The labour movement and the state: a study in radicalism (to 1914)
• The new syndicalism and guild socialism: contrasting fates (1914-25)
• Pluralism, corporatism and state traditions.

Review

"This is the first comparative study of pluralist critiques of the state in France and Britain. Highlighting the intricacy and diversity of early-twentieth-century, pluralism, a diversity often obscured in the existing literature, Cecile Laborde offers a wide-ranging and highly original survey of an influential school of thought. In an ambitious comparison of the works of British writers such as Figgis, Cole and Laski, and French writers such as Duguit, Berth and Leroy, she sheds light on the national determinants of political theorizing.

Summary

Drawing on intellectual, social and political history, the book explains how and why French pluralism split into anarchism and corporatism, while British pluralism maintained a precarious balance between groups and the state."--Jacket.

Subject headings

Political science--Great Britain--History--20th century. Political science--France--History--20th century. Cultural pluralism--Great Britain--History--20th century. Cultural pluralism--France--History--20th century.

Genre heading

History.

ISBN

0312229348 (cloth) 9780312229344 (cloth) 0333732022 (Macmillan ; cloth) 9780333732021 (Macmillan ; cloth)