Environmental Protest and the State in France

GRAEME HAYES is a Lecturer in Politics and Cultural Studies at the Department of Modern Languages, Nottingham Trent University. In 2001, the Political Studies Association awarded his doctoral thesis the Walter Bagehot prize for best dissertation in Government and Public Administration.

List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Political Opportunities and Environmental Protest in France Environmental Protest in France Political Opportunities and Policy Communities: Developing a Network Approach to State-Group Relations Institutional Change and the Fifth Republic Water Resource Management and the Loire Development Programme Vive la Loire Sauvage! Serre de la Fare and the Political Opportunity Structure of Protest Roads Policy and Multi-level Decisionmaking Opportunity, Protest, and the Somport Tunnel Conclusion Bibliography Index