One of the earliest and best-established finding about electoral support for populist radical right-wing parties is that they attract more men than women. Yet this finding might no longer apply to France. In the 2012, presidential election, contrary to her father, Marine Le Pen, the new leader of the Front National (FN), realized almost the same sc...
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The Front National (FN) has made an impressive come back into France’s electoral politics since 2012. Adopting a supply-side approach, this article places the electoral rejuvenation of the FN in the context of the global crisis and looks at how the party has adapted programmatically to socio-economic demands emerging from this context. On the basis...
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There is a widespread sense that the Front National (FN) came of age in 2014 as a challenger for power in France. The municipal and European elections appeared to herald a transformation in the party’s development and prospects, demonstrating its capacity to compete as a major player at subnational and supranational levels following strong performa...
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This article explains the victory of the Front National (FN) in the May 2014 European elections in France. Taking issue with standard academic accounts that conceive of the latter as ‘second-order’ elections, it argues that the FN won by harnessing voters’ growing anxiety about European integration as an electoral issue. First, the article contends...
Published in French Politics
One of the earliest and best-established finding about electoral support for populist radical right-wing parties is that they attract more men than women. Yet this finding might no longer apply to France. In the 2012, presidential election, contrary to her father, Marine Le Pen, the new leader of the Front National (FN), realized almost the same sc...
Published in French Politics
The French National Front (FN), currently one of the most successful radical right-wing parties at the electoral booth in Western Europe, has more than doubled its vote share from around 10 per cent in the late 2000s, or the final years of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s presidency, to around 15–25 per cent in the 2010s after Marine Le Pen has taken over the l...
The French National Front (FN), currently one of the most successful radical right-wing parties at the electoral booth in Western Europe, has more than doubled its vote share from around 10 per cent in the late 2000s, or the final years of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s presidency, to around 15–25 per cent in the 2010s after Marine Le Pen has taken over the l...
Depuis que Marine Le Pen a été élue à sa présidence en 2011, jamais le Front national n'a réalisé de tels scores électoraux, attiré tant de militants, compté tant d’élus. A-t-il changé pour autant ? Fondamentalement, non. Le « nouveau » FN est une illusion, entretenue par des médias qu’il fascine. Telle est la conclusion de la minutieuse enquête me...
Depuis que Marine Le Pen a été élue à sa présidence en 2011, jamais le Front national n'a réalisé de tels scores électoraux, attiré tant de militants, compté tant d’élus. A-t-il changé pour autant ? Fondamentalement, non. Le « nouveau » FN est une illusion, entretenue par des médias qu’il fascine. Telle est la conclusion de la minutieuse enquête me...
Cet ouvrage collectif ambitionnait de prendre la mesure de l’évolution du Front national, notamment depuis l’élection de Marine Le Pen à sa présidence en janvier 2011. Le pari éditorial de départ était triple : appréhender les développements récents du FN comme un processus routinier affectant n’importe quelle organisation partisane ; mobiliser les...
