Articles by Sebastian Budgen

• Liberal Francophobia
  • Sebastian Budgen

  in NLR 38, March-April 2006, pp. 150-160
  Subjects: France
  

  Sebastian Budgen on Timothy Smith, France in Crisis. Spirited critique of the imbalances of the French model—coupled with liberal proposals for a ‘Dutch miracle’ in the Hexagon.

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• The French Fiasco
  • Sebastian Budgen

  in NLR 17, September-October 2002, pp. 31-50
  Subjects: France , Political Theory and Strategy
  

  The collapse of the Centre Left in France, after five years of Jospin’s complacent government: the whys and wherefores of its electoral debacle this spring, and the panic-stricken prostration to Chirac that followed it.

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• A New 'Spirit of Capitalism'
  • Sebastian Budgen

  in NLR 1, January-February 2000, pp. 149-156
  Subjects: France
  

  Sebastian Budgen on Luc Boltanski and Ève Chiapello, Le Nouvel esprit du capitalisme. A sequel to Max Weber's Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism from contemporary France.

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