Like Taiwan, France has a semi presidential constitutional system and a polarized party system. These are two main themes in this course. Under semi presidential system, the relations between executive and legislative branches are different from other nations of presidential or parliamentary systems. The function of judicial review is also exceptional. Besides left wing and right wing parties, the extreme right, namely the National Front (FN) has become a major party. After 2017, the party LRM emerges as the ruling party. This course would like to explore the development of French party politics.

Camus, Jean-Yves, 2004, Le Front national, (Paris: Presses de Sciences Po).
Cole, Alistair and Peter Campbell eds., 1989, French Electoral Systems and Elections Since 1789, (London: Gower).
Declair, Edward G., 1999, Politics on the Fringe: The People, Politics and Organization of the French National Front, (London: Duke University Press).
Knapp, Andrew, 1994, Gaullism since de Gaulle, (England: Dartmouth).
Lewis-Beck, Michael ed., 2000, How France Votes, (New York: Seven Bridges).
Marcus, Jonathan, 1995, The National Front and the French Politics, (London : Macmillan).
Pactet, Pierre, et Ferdinan Mélin-Soucramanien, 2006, Droit constitutionnel, 25e édition, (Paris: Masson).
Safran, William, 2003, The French Polity, 6th edition, (NY : Longman).
Simmons, Harvey, 1996, The French National Front, (Boulder Co: Westview Press).
Sternhell, Zeev, 1986, Neither Right nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France, (Berkeley: University of California Press).
Stevens, Anne, 2003, The Government and Politics of France, 3rd Edition, (London: Macmillan).