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The focus of this book is on the decentralization reforms legislated by the Socialist government in France from 1982 to 1986. These reforms redefined the role of the central state in the periphery and gave extensive new powers to territorial governments.Vivien A. Schmidt is the author of 'Democratizing France: The Political and Administrative History of Decentralization', published 1991 under ISBN 9780521391566 and ISBN 0521391563.
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