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Concepts and theory: political sociology and European study / S. Duchesne, E. Frazer, F. Haegel and V. Van Ingelgom -- National frames: reactions to a multi-level world / F. Haegel -- Social gap: the double meaning of 'overlooking' / S. Duchesne -- When ambivalence meets indifference / V. Van Ingelgom -- Representation and legitimation / E. Frazer and V. Van Ingelgom -- Reflections on design and implementation / S. Duchesne, E. Frazer, A.-P. Frognier, G. Garcia, F. Haegel, and V. Van Ingelgom -- Conclusion: citizens talking about Europe / S. Duchesne, E. Frazer, F. Haegel and V. Van Ingelgom -- Post script: searching for the grail / A.-P. Frognier

Like European political parties, French political parties face a number of challenges and are subject to many tensions at the dawn of the twenty-first century, even though their attractiveness has never seemed so low. arrangement around the Rassemblement pour la Republique (RPR) and the Union for French Democracy (UDF) on the right, and the Socialist Party (PS) and the French Communist Party (PCF) on the left, the party system itself has even considerably evolved under the effect of the recomposition of the parliamentary right, the collapse of the Communist Party or the breakthrough of newcomers, such as the National Front or the Greens. After the sequence of presidential and legislative elections of 2012, this book analyzes in depth the state of each of the active parties in the political system. How does each of them position themselves in relation to the transformations of partisan activity? How do parties interpret the mutations they face? How do they deal with the disaffection they experience? What ideological and organizational evolutions do they know? These issues are discussed in this reference book. The authors present an original overall picture, systematically offering a party analysis at work in the French political system; which is completed by a reflection on the major transformations of the electoral geography.
- À l'instar des formations politiques européennes, les partis politiques français sont confrontés à plusieurs défis et soumis à nombre de tensions à l'aube de ce XXIe siècle, alors même que leur attractivité n'a jamais semblé aussi faible.Longtemps dominée par un agencement autour du Rassemblement pour la République (RPR) et de l'Union pour la démocratie française (UDF) à droite, et du parti socialiste (PS) et du parti communiste français (PCF) à gauche, le système de partis a lui-même considérablement évolué sous l'effet de la recomposition de la droite parlementaire, de l'effondrement du parti communiste ou de la percée de nouveaux venus, tels le Front national ou Les Verts. Après la séquence des élections présidentielles et législatives de 2012, cet ouvrage analyse en profondeur l'état de chacun des partis actifs dans le système politique. Comment chacun d'entre eux se positionne-t-il au regard des transformations du fait partisan ? Comment les partis interprètent-ils les mutations auxquelles ils font face ? Comment agissent-ils face à la désaffection qu'ils subissent ? Quelles évolutions idéologiques et organisationnelles connaissent-ils ? Ces questions sont examinées dans ce livre de référence. Les auteurs présentent un tableau d'ensemble original, offrant de manière systématique une analyse des partis à l'œuvre dans le système politique français ; laquelle est complétée par une réflexion sur les grandes transformations de la géographie électorale.

In May 2012, French voters rejected the liberalizing policies of Nicolas Sarkozy and elected his opponent, the Socialist François Hollande, president. In June 2012, the incumbent president's center-right UMP party was swept out of government in the ensuing parliamentary elections, giving way to a new center-left majority in the National Assembly. This book analyzes the contexts and results of the 2012 presidential and parliamentary elections in France. It assesses the legacies of the Sarkozy presidency that informed the 2012 electoral campaigns, scrutinizing his domestic social and economic policies on the one hand and European and foreign policies on the other. In turn, the elections' outcomes are also analyzed from the standpoint of various political parties and other institutional interests in France, and the results are situated within the broader run of French political history. Finally, the book examines the principal challenges facing the Hollande administration and new government of Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, and assesses how effectively these have been met during their first year in office