“The introduction sets the election in a wider context that even readers with no real knowledge or particular hankering for French politics should find easy enough to absorb. … This is an essential book for anyone teaching French politics today--all the more so since textbooks in the broader field have become thin on the ground. It is certainly a must have for university libraries.” (Paul Smith, H-France Review, Vol. 19 (36), March, 2019)

​Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the 2017 presidential elections represents one of the most important disruptions to French political life since the establishment of the Fifth Republic. This book analyses the political opportunities enabling a neophyte to conquer the Elysée, and the conditions leading to the unprecedented presidential runoff between this centrist EU enthusiast and pro-globalization candidate and the nationalistic/populist alternative embodied by Marine Le Pen. The book begins by considering trends in party competition and presidentialism in modern France, notably presidential primaries and their impact on party competition. It then moves to considering the role traditional explanatory factors in elections, namely policies and voter profiles, played in the result. Finally, it examines the dynamics of President Macron’s success in the legislatives, and how he dominated the traditional party blocs. This book will appeal to students of French politics as well as those interested in electoral behaviour and European political systems.   
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​Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the 2017 presidential elections represents one of the most important disruptions to French political life since the establishment of the Fifth Republic.
Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 The 2017 presidential election: continuity and change.- Chapter 3 The presidential primaries and polarization of mainstream party politics.- Chapter 4 Party strategy and cooperation.- Chapter 5 Campaign events and political change.- Chapter 6 Forecasting and polling.- Chapter 7 Parties and voters in the policy space of the first round.- Chapter 8 Challenges to the blocked polity in the ballottage.- Chapter 9 The 2017 Legislative elections: manufacturing a majority.- Chapter 10 Conclusion.
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Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the 2017 presidential elections represents one of the most important disruptions to French political life since the establishment of the Fifth Republic. This book analyses the political opportunities enabling a neophyte to conquer the Elysée, and the conditions leading to the unprecedented presidential runoff between this centrist EU enthusiast and pro-globalization candidate and the nationalistic/populist alternative embodied by Marine Le Pen. The book begins by considering trends in party competition and presidentialism in modern France, notably presidential primaries and their impact on party competition. It then moves to considering the role traditional explanatory factors in elections, namely policies and voter profiles, played in the result. Finally, it examines the dynamics of President Macron’s success in the legislatives, and how he dominated the traditional party blocs. This book will appeal to students of French politics as well as those interested in electoral behaviour and European political systems.
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“This book provides a fascinating analysis of the 2017 French elections. The extraordinary electoral sequence that led Emmanuel Macron to the Presidency of the French Republic, with its many singular events, but also its underlying trends, is set out here with the help of political and empirical analyses based on an ample set of data. This book is both an academic work, underpinned by concepts and recent methods in political science, and at the same time a book for a wider, informed readership. The recent electoral history of France and more generally of political studies into the transformation of party systems and voters in Europe are at the very heart of this book.” (Professor Bruno Cautrès, Sciences Po / Cevipof, Paris, France)
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Provides the first English-language study of one of the most notable French presidential elections of recent times Includes a systematic analysis of French presidential and legislative election outcomes since the early 1980s Combines qualitative and quantitative methods in its analysis
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9783319683263
Publisert
2018-01-23
Utgiver
Vendor
Springer International Publishing AG
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Aldersnivå
Research, UU, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Om bidragsyterne

Jocelyn Evans is Professor of Politics at the University of Leeds, UK. He has written widely on aspects of voting behaviour and political parties in France, the UK and comparatively. He served as editor of Parliamentary Affairs between 2005 and 2011. He has held visiting research positions at the ZA-Eurolab in Cologne, Germany, and the CIDSP, Grenoble, France.

Gilles Ivaldi is Researcher in Political Science with the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) at URMIS-University of Nice, France. His main fields of research include French politics, elections, and the comparative study of populist parties, left and right. He has published extensively on those areas of research in academic journals.