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The French Voter

Before and After the 2002 Elections

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  • © 2004

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Editors:
  1. Michael S. Lewis-Beck

    1. University of Iowa, USA

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Part of the book series: French Politics, Society and Culture (FPSC)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. French Election Theories and the 2002 Results: An Introduction

    • Michael S. Lewis-Beck
    Pages 1-11

  3. France’s 2002 Presidential Elections: Earlier and Later Territorial Fractures

    • Annie Laurent
    Pages 12-32

  4. Do Issues Matter? Law and Order in the 2002 French Presidential Election

    • Nonna Mayer, Vincent Tiberj
    Pages 33-46

  5. Ideology and Party Identification: A Normalisation of French Voting Anchors?

    • Jocelyn A. J. Evans
    Pages 47-73

  6. “Old Wine in New Bottles? New Wine in Old Bottles?: Class, Religion and Vote in the French Electorate” — The 2002 Elections in Time Perspective

    • Bruno Cautrès
    Pages 74-92

  7. Strategic Voting in the 2002 French Presidential Election

    • André Blais
    Pages 93-109

  8. Institutions and Voters: Structuring Electoral Choice

    • Robert Elgie
    Pages 110-125

  9. Could there have Possibly been Economic Voting?

    • Guy D. Whitten
    Pages 126-135

  10. Dual Governance and Economic Voting: France and the United States

    • Michael S. Lewis-Beck, Richard Nadeau
    Pages 136-154

  11. Stuck between a Rock and a Hard Place: Electoral Dilemmas and Turnout in the 2002 French Legislative Elections

    • Thomas Gschwend, Dirk Leuffen
    Pages 155-177

  12. Forecasting the 2002 Elections: Lessons from a Political Economy Model

    • Bruno Jérôme, Veronique Jérôme-Speziari
    Pages 178-204

  13. Vote Functions in France and the 2002 Election Forecast

    • Eric Dubois, Christine Fauvelle-Aymar
    Pages 205-230

  14. National Economic Voting in France: Objective versus Subjective Measures

    • Éric Bélanger, Michael S. Lewis-Beck
    Pages 231-242

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 243-249
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Why do French voters vote the way they do? In this book, leading international scholars examine this question from many different angles. Special attention is given to the 2002 national elections, when right-wing extremist Le Pen made such a spectacular showing in the presidential contest. Was the first-ballot success of Le Pen based on issues of law and order, ethnicity, nationalism or on the economy? What about the role of the traditional factors of social class, region, religion and left-right ideology? Do the peculiar electoral institutions of the Fifth Republic foster political extremism, or act as a break on it? The French Voter considers these issues both in relation to the 2002 contest and past elections.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Iowa, USA

    Michael S. Lewis-Beck

About the editor

ERIC BÉLANGER Department of Political Science, University of Montreal, Canada ANDRÉ BLAIS Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Montreal, Canada BRUNO CAUTRÈS Director, Bangue des Données Sociopolitiques, University of Grenoble, France ERIC DUBOIS University of Paris-I Panthéon Sorbonne, France ROBERT ELGIE Paddy Moriarty Professor of Government and International Studies, Dublin City University, Ireland JOCELYN EVANS Lecturer in Politics, University of Salford, UK CHRISTINE FAUVELLE-AYMAR Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Paris-I Panthéon Sorbonne, France THOMAS GSCHWEND University of Mannheim, Germany BRUNO JÉRÔME Department of Economics, University of Metz, France VERONIQUE JÉRÔME-SPEZIARI Department of Economics, University of Metz, France ANNIE LAURENT University of Lille, France DIRK LEUFFEN University of Mannheim, Germany NONNA MAYER Research Director, CEVIPOF, Paris Institute for Political Studies, France RICHARD NADEAU Professor of Political Science, University of Montreal, Canada VINCENT TIBERJ CEVIPOF, France GUY WHITTEN Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Texas A & M University, USA

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