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Political development in conclusion

Answer 1

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⏩the subject matter of political activity and the way it is studied by political scientists varies from country to country. Having scrutinised her political and governmental systems, the various public policies pursued and some salient political controversies that have marked recent years, let us consider what is special about the way political activity is studied in France. We shall focus upon three aspects of the role of the state in French political life. First, the pivotal place of the state institutions — government, Civil Service, Parliament, judiciary, police, armed forces — and of law-making has meant that the Anglo-American practice of focusing upon society is a misleading starting point for political science enquiries. Far from it being necessary to reintroduce a neglected state dimension into the study of French politics, it has if anything occupied too much space to the exclusion of the less formal aspects of the political process. Second, what has given French political science its status as a subject of relevance to those exercising power is that it has had a closer relationship to statecraft than in Britain or even the USA. Primary concern with practical problems and public administration have influenced both the methodology used and the subjects that are considered to be most worthy of investigating because they are useful.