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"More than a book about elections, Evans and Ivaldi provide here a ranging and insightful analysis of party system dynamics, institutional factors, voting issues and policy debates as they shape electoral competition, and electoral choice, in France today. Through the lens of 2012, the book focuses on the presidential contest and its legislative sequel as critical for understanding wider aspects of the evolving institutional and political culture of the Fifth Republic. A timely and very valuable contribution to French political studies."
James Shields, Professor of French Politics and Modern History, Aston University, UK
"This book is a tour de force. The French elections of 2012 in their complexity are analysed here by Professors Evans and Ivaldi, and portray the intricacies of political competition, personal rivalry, public opinion. The social composition of the contending parties are explained concisely in their political and cultural context. The authors have depicted political France so convincingly 'that he who runs may read."
David Bell, Emeritus Professor of French Government and Politics, Department of Politics and International Studies, UK
"Using an innovative mixed methods approach, Evans and Ivaldi identify and evaluate, in a convincing manner, the structural and conjunctural factors that combined to explain why Hollande was elected President in May 2012 and why the parliamentary election confirmed this result a few weeks later. This is a substantial work."
Alistair Cole, Professor of European Politics, Cardiff School of European Languages, Translation and Politics, Cardiff University, UK
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Gilles Ivaldi is a Researcher in Political Science with the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the university of Nice, France. His main fields of research include French politics and the study of radical right parties in France and Europe.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The 2012 French Presidential Elections
Book Subtitle: The Inevitable Alternation
Authors: Jocelyn Evans, Gilles Ivaldi
Series Title: French Politics, Society and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137011640
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-01163-3Published: 21 November 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-43647-7Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-01164-0Published: 21 November 2013
Series ISSN: 2946-3750
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3769
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 216
Topics: Social Policy, Ethnicity Studies, European Politics, Economic Policy, Public Policy, Electoral Politics