
How France Votes
Michael S. Lewis-Beck(Editor)
Chatham House Publishers Inc.,U.S.
1st Edition
Published on 15. July 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
292 pages
978-1-56643-069-2 (ISBN)
Description
How France Votes takes as context the presidential election of 1995, which saw the triumph of Gaullist Jacques Chirac, and the legislative elections of 1997, which saw Chirac's political defeat and the emergence of Socialist Lionel Jospin as the prime minister. How did this reversal happen, and why?Michael S. Lewis-Beck leads a team of distiguished scholars who survey campaign issues, party strategies, constitutional rules and institutions, and the French electorate in the context of the 1995 and 1997 elections.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Washington
United States
Publishing group
SAGE Publications Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Weight
513 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56643-069-2 (9781566430692)
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Michael S. Lewis-Beck is F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa, and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. His interests are comparative elections, election forecasting, political economy, and quantitative methodology. He has been designated the 4th most cited political scientist since 1940, in the field of methodology. Professor Lewis-Beck has authored or co-authored over 240 articles and books, including Applied Regression: An Introduction, Data Analysis: An Introduction, Economics and Elections: The Major Western Democracies, Forecasting Elections, The American Voter Revisited and French Presidential Elections. He has served as an Editor of the American Journal of Political Science, the Sage QASS series (the green monographs) in quantitative methods and The Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods. Currently he is Associate Editor of International Journal of Forecasting and Associate Editor of French Politics. In spring 2012, he held the position of Paul Lazersfeld University Professor at the University of Vienna. During the fall of 2012, he was Visiting Professor at Center for Citizenship and Democracy, University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium. In spring 2013, Professor Lewis-Beck was Visiting Scholar, Centennial Center, American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C. During fall 2013, he served as Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain. In spring, 2014, he was Visiting Scholar, Department of Political Science, University of Goeteborg, Sweden. For fall, 2014, he served as a Visiting Professor at LUISS University, Rome. At present, he is co-authoring a book on how Latin Americans vote.
Content
The socialists, Jospin and the Mitterand legacy, William Safran; the 1997 Electoral Campaign, Bruno Cautres; The National Front and the Legislative Elections of 1997, Martin A. Schain; Europe becomes French domestic politics, George Ross ; why did the Right lose? Gerard Grunberg; the stability of the French party system, Joseph A. Schlessinger; cleavage voting and issue voting in France, Daniel Boy, Nonna Meyer; the myth of neo-conservatism, Etienne Schweisguth; the influence of political affairs and scandals, Jean Lafay, Marie Servals; the France that doesn't vote, Andrew M. Appleton; do the parties matter? Kay Lawson, Collette Ysmal.