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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787403003321

Titolo

France after 2012 / / editors, Riccardo Brizzi, Gabriel Goodliffe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : berghahn, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78238-549-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 216 pages)

Disciplina

944.084/12

Soggetti

Presidents - France - Election - History - 21st century

Political leadership - France - History - 21st century

Political parties - France - History - 21st century

France Politics and government 2012-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Chapter 7  In Search of the Center"" ""Chapter 8 The Resurgence of the Front National""; ""Part III  The Electoral Campaign and Hollande's Challenges""; ""Chapter 9  Hollande's Economic Agenda""; ""Chapter 10 Europe in the 2012 French Presidential Election""; ""Chapter 11 Hollande and Sarkozy's Foreign Policy Legacy""; ""Chapter 12 Immigration and the 2012 Elections in France""; ""Conclusion: Assessing the Hollande Presidency One Year into Office""; ""Bibliography""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

In May 2012, French voters rejected the liberalizing policies of Nicolas Sarkozy and elected his opponent, the Socialist Francois 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 p