Roger-Gérard Schwartzenberg

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Roger-Gérard Schwartzenberg

Roger-Gérard Schwartzenberg (born April 17, 1943 in Pau ) is a French legal and political scientist and politician of the Parti radical de gauche (PRG). He is a professor emeritus of public law at the University of Panthéon-Assas . Schwartzenberg was a member of the European Parliament , a long-time member of the National Assembly and research minister from 2000 to 2002.

Life

Schwartzenberg's father owned a knitwear and knitwear factory; the oncologist Léon Schwartzenberg is his cousin. Roger-Gérard Schwartzenberg attended the Lycée Charlemagne and studied at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). At the age of 25 he received the Agrégation (license to teach) in public law in 1968 . He was appointed to a chair at the University of Orléans and was the youngest professor in France at the time. The following year he moved to the University of Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), where he worked until his retirement in 2011. From 1972 to 1983, he was also Professor of Comparative Politics at Sciences Po.

His book on political sociology has been published in several editions since 1971. The work L'État spectacle (German politics as show business ), published in 1977 , which deals with the personalization and medialization of politics as well as the development of a system of political "stars" similar to show business, has been translated into several languages. In addition, Schwartzenberg wrote commentaries and editorials for Le Monde and L'Express in the 1970s .

In 1976 Schwartzenberg became general delegate of the left-liberal Mouvement des radicaux de gauche (MRG), which had emerged from the left wing of the historical Parti républicain, radical et radical-socialiste . In 1978 he was elected deputy chairman and in 1981 party chairman. In the first direct election of the European Parliament in 1979, he received a seat. He joined the Socialist Group and sat on the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. In March 1983, he resigned to accept the post of State Secretary in the Ministry of Education in the Mauroy III cabinet . He also resigned as party chairman. In July 1984 he was appointed State Secretary for Universities (under Education Minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement ) in the Fabius cabinet .

After the change of government in March 1986 he was a member of the 3rd constituency of the Val-de-Marne department in the National Assembly until 2000 . In the Jospin cabinet he was Minister for Research from March 27, 2000 to May 6, 2002. He then belonged again to the National Assembly. In the 2007 general election, he lost his seat to Didier Gonzales from the conservative UMP , but won it back in 2012 and was again a member of parliament until 2017.

Works (selection)

  • La campagne présidentielle de 1965, PUF, 1967
  • La guerre de succession or l'élection présidentielle de 1969, PUF, 1969
  • L'Autorité de chose décidée, LGDJ, Bibliothèque de droit public, 1969
  • Sociologie politique, éditions Montchrestien, 1971 (5e édition, 1998)
  • Liberté, libertés, Réflexions du Comité pour une charte des liberté, copublié avec Robert Badinter, Jacques Attali, Jean-Denis Bredin, Régis Debray, Laurent Fabius et Michel Serres, Gallimard, 1976
  • L'État spectacle. Essai sur et contre le star system en politique, Flammarion, 1977
    • Politics as show business. Modern strategies in the struggle for power, Econ, 1980
  • Politique comparée, Les Cours du droit, 2e édition, 1980
  • La Droite absolue, Flammarion, 1981
  • La Politique mensonge, Odile Jacob, 1998
  • 1788: essai sur la maldémocratie, Fayard, 2006
  • L'État spectacle 2. Politique, Casting et médias, Plon, 2009

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SURNAME Schwartzenberg, Roger-Gérard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician (PRG)
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Pau