France traditionally has had strong majorities to back governments, but since 2022 is run by a minority government. Damien Lecomte and Calixte Bloquet trace back the institutional evolutions of the last 20 yers to explain this development. Though the new political situation has tended to put parliament back to the center of the political game, the authors argue that this has not fostered as much deliberation-seeking behaviors than one could have expected.
