Revolution Revisited: Emmanuel Macron and the Limits of Political Change in France

This book provides timely assessment of the extent to which Emmanuel Macron’s declared presidential goal – to bring in radical transformation of French politics, indeed a revolution, albeit a democratic one – has been achieved.

This analysis of his presidency provides a framework for reflection on ‘immobilism’ in French politics, and how enduring transformation has remained much more elusive to most of those who promised it. With a wide a range of underlying, seemingly intractable and unreso...