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This research studies the evolution of voting turnout in in Paris, Madrid and Birmingham's deprived neighborhoods since 1999. In France, after the 2005 riots, both registration and turnout increased sharply during the 2007 presidential election in those places. Yet their inhabitants face numerous social and physical barriers, reducing the likelihood that they would vote. We try to explain this paradox using combined theoretical frameworks from urban sociology, electoral sociology, electoral geography and public policies in a comparative research design. The core hypothesis is that those social groups are increasingly involved in politics and in voting. This study uses several methodological tools involving aggregate data analysis, survey data analysis, polling station observation and field interviews. The results show that public policies designed to influence turnout are sharply divided. Universalistic approaches appear more likely to get voters to participate. ; Cette thèse porte sur l'évolution de la participation électorale des habitants des quartiers populaires depuis 1999. En France, après les émeutes de 2005, ces quartiers ont été marqués par une forte hausse de l'inscription et de la participation lors de l'élection présidentielle de 2007. Pourtant ils cumulent les caractéristiques susceptibles d'éloigner leurs habitants du vote. C'est ce paradoxe que la thèse cherche à expliquer. Pour y parvenir, elle croise plusieurs champs théoriques (sociologie urbaine, sociologie/géographie électorale, action publique) dans une perspective comparative, analysant ces évolutions électorales dans les périphéries marginalisées de Paris, Madrid et Birmingham. L'hypothèse centrale est celle d'une inclusion politique croissante des habitants des quartiers populaires français. La méthodologie est mixte, croisant analyse de données agrégées resituant le contexte, données de sondage, entretiens avec des habitants des quartiers marginalisés, observations de bureaux de vote en région parisienne et analyse des politiques ...

This research studies the evolution of voting turnout in in Paris, Madrid and Birmingham's deprived neighborhoods since 1999. In France, after the 2005 riots, both registration and turnout increased sharply during the 2007 presidential election in those places. Yet their inhabitants face numerous social and physical barriers, reducing the likelihood that they would vote. We try to explain this paradox using combined theoretical frameworks from urban sociology, electoral sociology, electoral geography and public policies in a comparative research design. The core hypothesis is that those social groups are increasingly involved in politics and in voting. This study uses several methodological tools involving aggregate data analysis, survey data analysis, polling station observation and field interviews. The results show that public policies designed to influence turnout are sharply divided. Universalistic approaches appear more likely to get voters to participate. ; Cette thèse porte sur l'évolution de la participation électorale des habitants des quartiers populaires depuis 1999. En France, après les émeutes de 2005, ces quartiers ont été marqués par une forte hausse de l'inscription et de la participation lors de l'élection présidentielle de 2007. Pourtant ils cumulent les caractéristiques susceptibles d'éloigner leurs habitants du vote. C'est ce paradoxe que la thèse cherche à expliquer. Pour y parvenir, elle croise plusieurs champs théoriques (sociologie urbaine, sociologie/géographie électorale, action publique) dans une perspective comparative, analysant ces évolutions électorales dans les périphéries marginalisées de Paris, Madrid et Birmingham. L'hypothèse centrale est celle d'une inclusion politique croissante des habitants des quartiers populaires français. La méthodologie est mixte, croisant analyse de données agrégées resituant le contexte, données de sondage, entretiens avec des habitants des quartiers marginalisés, observations de bureaux de vote en région parisienne et analyse des politiques ...

This research studies the evolution of voting turnout in in Paris, Madrid and Birmingham's deprived neighborhoods since 1999. In France, after the 2005 riots, both registration and turnout increased sharply during the 2007 presidential election in those places. Yet their inhabitants face numerous social and physical barriers, reducing the likelihood that they would vote. We try to explain this paradox using combined theoretical frameworks from urban sociology, electoral sociology, electoral geography and public policies in a comparative research design. The core hypothesis is that those social groups are increasingly involved in politics and in voting. This study uses several methodological tools involving aggregate data analysis, survey data analysis, polling station observation and field interviews. The results show that public policies designed to influence turnout are sharply divided. Universalistic approaches appear more likely to get voters to participate. ; Cette thèse porte sur l'évolution de la participation électorale des habitants des quartiers populaires depuis 1999. En France, après les émeutes de 2005, ces quartiers ont été marqués par une forte hausse de l'inscription et de la participation lors de l'élection présidentielle de 2007. Pourtant ils cumulent les caractéristiques susceptibles d'éloigner leurs habitants du vote. C'est ce paradoxe que la thèse cherche à expliquer. Pour y parvenir, elle croise plusieurs champs théoriques (sociologie urbaine, sociologie/géographie électorale, action publique) dans une perspective comparative, analysant ces évolutions électorales dans les périphéries marginalisées de Paris, Madrid et Birmingham. L'hypothèse centrale est celle d'une inclusion politique croissante des habitants des quartiers populaires français. La méthodologie est mixte, croisant analyse de données agrégées resituant le contexte, données de sondage, entretiens avec des habitants des quartiers marginalisés, observations de bureaux de vote en région parisienne et analyse des politiques ...

Voting is a sort of black hole in work on political communication in information and communication sciences. As for electoral studies in political science, they provide increasingly precise information about who electors are and the circumstances under which they decide how to vote, but they struggle to enlighten what voters mean by their votes. This paper outlines a fresh approach to voting as a communicational process. In a context of crisis of representation, recent work in ICS encourages the use of "incommunication" to analyse the relationship that forms during political elections between governors and governed. A diversion by way of political anthropology will lead to mention of Eshu (Elegba, Legba), who in Africa forms a synthesis between communication that is inherent in all forms of power and the individual and collective expression of the guardians of power.

Built on an in-depth analysis of the existing scientific literature, the article underscores the necessity to study whether or not candidate' evaluation by voters affects voting behavior - i.e. the candidate effect hypothesis- and particularly in the case of the French parliamentary elections, a least likely case study. Evidence drawn from a survey dedicated to this purpose during the parliamentary elections of June 2012 supports the hypothesis of a candidate effect in France, which has to be added to the explanatory factors usually used in the scientific literature. Beyond partisanship and ideology, candidates matter when citizens vote in parliamentary elections. Adapted from the source document.

This paper aims to discuss the ideologizing interpretations which stigmatized the electoral behaviors in rural & suburban areas. Nowadays, to live in a suburban area is usually assimilated by the some social scientist to an antisocial behavior, suburban housing as the result of individualistic attitude which can lead to social & political secession. Then, different theoretical approaches about context influence in electoral geography are exposed. Finally, those theoretical approaches are finally compared on the basis of empirical data collected in a French metropolitan area with different methodological approaches (ecological & individual) at two geographic scales (metropolitan & local). Whatever the approaches used, it appears that the socio-economic status of inhabitants are still linked with the electoral behaviors which takes places. Adapted from the source document.

December 12, 2012. Circumcision. A bill was passed October 10th the Council of Ministers to frame circumcision, it allows circumcision but imposes 'a professional medical setting.' The Bundesrat after November 2, the Bundestag adopts, December 12, a law giving a legal framework by 434 votes against 100 and 46 abstentions. Adapted from the source document.

The referendum presented in the French election of 24 Sept 2000, which centered on the deduction of the presidential mandate, resulted in 69.8% of potential voters abstaining & 4.9% turning in a blank or nullified ballot. These results are compared statistically with the results of other French elections. 5 Tables, 2 Maps. D. Weibel

The application of a mathematical model to the nominal votes in the French-speaking electoral college for the European elections of June 1984 is illustrated. The statistical categories of the loglinear model make it possible to isolate & measure the effects of list, position, & personality of each candidate. The results for two individual candidates are studied in greater detail, making it possible to demonstrate a method permitting the measurement of the performance of each candidate in terms of votes & %s. The significance of measuring the relative importance of the list & of the candidate is discussed. 17 Tables, 3 Appendixes. AA Tr & Modified by S. McAneny

Recent publications like 'Invisible France' & the title publication have inaugurated public debate over electoral analyses in France. Discussions have focused on explaining voting patterns by immersing oneself in a popular milieu, in addition to the usual procedures such as fact comparing. Brings out the results of examining political abstention, indifference, & declining participation. Claims a vast amount of data is covered making it difficult to sum up results. Concludes complementary studies will be needed to confirm this but draws preliminary conclusion that the electoral process is an alien spectacle to many more citizens, more perhaps than previously imagined. References. R. Ruffin