The New Voter in Western Europe France and Beyond [Hardcover]

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).Introduction: The Dynamics of Electoral Choice; B.Cautr?s & A.Muxel The Process of Electoral Decision-making; B.Cautr?s & A.Muxel Loyalties, Mobilities, and Abstentions; A. Muxel The Plurality of Voting Possibilities; V.Tiberj & B.Cautr?s The Decisive Influence of Image; D.Boy & J.Chiche When Do Voters Choose?; B.Cautr?s & A.Jadot Following the Campaign: Politization, Confirmation, and Polarization; T.Vedel Electoral Agenda and Issue Voting; N.Sauger How Le Pen's Electorate Lost Faith in Him; P.Perrineau The Temptation to Vote Bayrou; S.Strudel Review of an Electoral Campaign: From Chronicle to Political Logic; C.Dargent & M.Barth?lemy The Panel Electoral Fran?ais 2007: Methodological Issues; V.Le Hay Conclusion: The Benefits of Panel Studies; B.Cautr?s & A.Muxel

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,lã3