Overview
- Offers a major original contribution to understanding the evolution of French party politics
- Is the first full-length account in English of the problems faced during the Hollande presidency by Les Républicains
- Outlines a new theoretical model to understand the realignment of the French party system that occurred during the Hollande presidency
- Proposes a new approach to the study of party leadership, developing a new framework based on an analysis of the interaction of the dynamics of personality and representation
- Draws on extensive analysis of speeches, party literature and polling data
Part of the book series: French Politics, Society and Culture (FPSC)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book argues that the defeat of the main French Centre Right party in the 2017 presidential and legislative elections, and its subsequent disintegration, were the result of a failure to respond effectively to the challenges posed by a continuing realignment of the party system. By the start of the Hollande presidency, many sections of the electorate had lost faith in the traditional parties of government and the ideologies which they represented and were adopting a more individualist approach to politics. The Left/Right divide, which had determined relations between parties since the creation of the Fifth Republic in 1958, gave way to a new arrangement, based on three axes – identity, liberal economics and Europe. These policy areas would provoke major differences of opinion among supporters of the Centre Right, and lead a significant number of them to abandon Les Républicains, which was a major factor in the election of Emmanuel Macron.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
William Rispin completed his PhD in French Politics at the University of Warwick, UK. His work has focused on the evolution of the French party system and the problems faced by the Centre Right since 2002.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The French Centre Right and the Challenges of a Party System in Transition
Authors: William Rispin
Series Title: French Politics, Society and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60894-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60893-4Published: 01 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60896-5Published: 02 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-60894-1Published: 30 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-3750
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3769
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 245
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: European Politics, Electoral Politics, Political Leadership, Governance and Government