Thecumul des mandats,local power and political parties in France
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in West European Politics
- Vol. 14 (1) , 18-40
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01402389108424830
Abstract
French politicians show an unusual appetite for combining local and national elective offices, the practice known as the cumul des mandats. This feature of the French political system has arisen from the specific characteristics of central‐local relations in France and from the weakness of French political parties, which it has in turn reinforced. The cumul has survived both the ‘nationalisation’ of French politics under the Fifth Republic and the decentralisation legislation of the early 1980s, which removed some of its functions for local government. While multiple office‐holding is now limited by law, the incentives to combine the posts of Deputy and mayor for the same town are undiminished.Keywords
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