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¹ More systematic studies of this phenomenon are forthcoming, including the impressively wide enquiry under René Rémond and Aline Coutrot on the Cabinets ministériels, and Francis de, Baëcque and Jean-Louis, Quermonne (eds.): Administration et politique sous la Cinquiéme République (Paris, 1981).Google Scholar

² This is confirmed by Francois, Bloch-Lainé (who was not a Gaullist), in his Profession: fonctionnaire (Paris, Le Seuil, 1976).Google Scholar

³ The president of the National Assembly.

⁴ She rightly values the importance of the veto: ‘Le principal intérêt de ce privilège détenu par la France reste finalement de lui permettre de s'opposer à toute rêvision de la Charte’ (p. 114), though she perhaps underestimates the psychological and status-symbol qualities of the permanent seat in international relations outside U.N.O.

⁵ E.g.Stokman, Frans N.: Roll calls and sponsorships: a methodological analysis of Third World group formation in the United Motions (Leyden, 1977).Google Scholar