France After 2012

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78238-548-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 489 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brizzi, Riccardo

Goodliffe, Gabriel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Sozialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Current Affairs
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Gabriel Goodliffe

PART I: THE PRESIDENCY

Chapter 1. The Fifth Republic and its Presidents

Jean-François Sirinelli

Chapter 2. Socialists in the Elysée Palace: from Mitterrand to Hollande

Marco Gervasoni 

Chapter 3. The TV-Presidency: From de Gaulle’s ‘Télécratie’ to Hollande’s ‘Normal Presidency’

Riccardo Brizzi



PART II: THE POLITICAL PARTIES

Chapter 4. The UMP after Sarkozy

Florence Haegel

Chapter 5. The Year of the Rose: The Socialist Victory of 2012

Gérard Grunberg 

Chapter 6. The Pyrrhic Victory of the Radical Left

Philippe Buton

Chapter 7. In Search of the Center

Gilles Le Béguec

Chapter 8. The Resurgence of the Front National

Gabriel Goodliffe

PART III: THE ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN AND HOLLANDE'S CHALLENGES

Chapter 9. Hollande’s Economic Agenda

Jacques Fayette

Chapter 10. Europe in the 2012 French Presidential Election

Renaud Dehousse and Angela Tacea 

Chapter 11. Hollande and Sarkozy’s Foreign Policy Legacy

Frédéric Charillon

Chapter 12. Immigration and the 2012 Elections in France

Ariane Chebel d’Apollonia

Conclusion: Assessing the Hollande Presidency One Year into Office

Riccardo Brizzi

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Goodliffe, Gabriel
Gabriel Goodliffe teaches international relations and political economy at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México.

Brizzi, Riccardo
Riccardo Brizzi teaches contemporary history in the Department of Political and Social Science at the University of Bologna.

Gabriel Goodliffe teaches international relations and political economy at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México.