UID:
almafu_9960889835102883
Format:
1 online resource (226 p.)
ISBN:
9781782385493
Content:
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.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Illustrations --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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Part I The Presidency --
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Chapter 1 The Fifth Republic and Its Presidents --
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Chapter 2 Socialists in the Elysée Palace: From Mitt errand to Hollande --
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Chapter 3 The TV-Presidency: From de Gaulle’s “Télécratie” to Hollande’s “Normal Presidency” --
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Part II The Political Parties --
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Chapter 4 The Union for a Popular Movement after Sarkozy --
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Chapter 5 The Year of the Rose: The Socialist Victory of 2012 --
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Chapter 6 The Pyrrhic Victory of the Radical Left --
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Chapter 7 In Search of the Center --
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Chapter 8 The Resurgence of the Front National --
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Part III The Electoral Campaign and Hollande’s Challenges --
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Chapter 9 Hollande’s Economic Agenda --
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Chapter 10 Europe in the 2012 French Presidential Election --
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Chapter 11 Hollande and Sarkozy’s Foreign Policy Legacy --
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Chapter 12 Immigration and the 2012 Elections in France --
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Conclusion: Assessing the Hollande Presidency One Year into Office --
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Bibliography --
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Contributors --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.1515/9781782385493
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782385493
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782385493
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782385493
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782385493
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