The New Voter in Western Europe

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction The Dynamics of Electoral Choice

   • Bruno Cautrès, Anne Muxel

   Pages 1-9

3. The Process of Electoral Decision Making

   • Bruno Cautrès, Anne Muxel

   Pages 11-26

4. Loyalties, Mobilities, Abstentions

   • Anne Muxel

   Pages 27-55

5. The Plurality of Voting Possibilities

   • Vincent Tiberj, Bruno Cautrès

   Pages 57-77

6. The Decisive Influence of Image

   • Daniel Boy, Jean Chiche

   Pages 79-100

7. When Do Voters Choose?

   • Bruno Cautrès, Anne Jadot

   Pages 101-128

8. Following the Campaign: Politicization, Confirmation, and Polarization

   • Thierry Vedel

   Pages 129-151

9. Electoral Agenda and Issue Voting

   • Nicolas Sauger

   Pages 153-170

10. How Le Pen’s Electorate Lost Faith in Him

    • Pascal Perrineau

    Pages 171-188

11. The Temptation to Vote Bayrou

    • Sylvie Strudel

    Pages 189-204

12. Review of an Electoral Campaign: From Chronicle to Political Logic

    • Claude Dargent, Martine Barthélemy

    Pages 205-224

13. The Panel Electoral Français 2007: Methodological Issues

    • Viviane Le Hay

    Pages 225-249

14. Conclusion

    • Bruno Cautrès, Anne Muxel

    Pages 251-260

15. Back Matter

    Pages 261-302

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This book presents the main results of an electoral panel study which is both unique and innovative not only in French political research but also among Western European electoral studies. The survey was conducted among a sample of 1,846 French voters interviewed on four separate occasions (2007 Presidential and Legislative elections).

• abstention
• campaign
• decision-making
• elections
• Electoral
• Electorate
• voter
• voting
• european union politics

"This book represents contemporary French political science at its best: grappling with important questions by employing cutting-edge tools and theories drawn from the international political science literature, but augmenting these tools and theories as appropriate with approaches designed specifically for the French case." - Mark Franklin, Stein Rokkan Professor of Comparative Politics, European University Institute

"This book is a major step. Most of the scholarly leaders in the French elections community have a chapter in this book.Virtually all are connected, directly or indirectly, to the organizations that study French elections (CEVIPOF, CNRS, FNSP).The topics considered cover valuable political science topics: the process of electoral decision, voter loyalty, political alignments, the influence of candidate images, the timing of the electoral decision, the role of the campaign, the place of issues in the vote choice, andthe impact of candidates such as Le Pen and Bayrou. All of this is especially exciting and timely reading because of the highly contested 2007 presidential election between candidates Royal and Sarkozy." - Michael S. Lewis-Beck, Department of Political Science, University of Iowa

BRUNO CAUTRÈS Researcher for the CEVIPOF (Center for Political Sciences Research) at Sciences Po, Paris, France.

ANNE MUXEL Research Director at the Centre for Political Research (CEVIPOF) at Sciences Po where she specialises in electoral and political behaviour, abstentionism, etc.

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