03579nam 22006375 450 991048390270332120230810171939.03-030-60894-810.1007/978-3-030-60894-1(CKB)5410000000054419(MiAaPQ)EBC6417055(DE-He213)978-3-030-60894-1(PPN)259464740(EXLCZ)99541000000005441920201130d2021 u| 0engurnn#008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe French Centre Right and the Challenges of a Party System in Transition /by William Rispin1st ed. 2021.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2021.1 online resource (XIII, 245 p. 1 illus.)French Politics, Society and Culture,2946-3769Includes index.3-030-60893-X 1.Introduction -- 2.A changing French society and the rise and fall of consensus (c.1981-2012) -- 3.Parties, party systems and the electorate -- 4.Divisions within the Centre Right over identity: 2012-2017 -- 5.The Centre Right and the challenges of economic reform -- 6.Europe and the realignment of the French party system -- 7.In search of a leader: The Centre Right and its leadership crisis, 2012-2017 -- 8.Conclusion.This book argues that the defeat of the main French Centre Right party in the 2017 presidential and legislative elections, and its subsequent disintegration, were the result of a failure to respond effectively to the challenges posed by a continuing realignment of the party system. By the start of the Hollande presidency, many sections of the electorate had lost faith in the traditional parties of government and the ideologies which they represented and were adopting a more individualist approach to politics. The Left/Right divide, which had determined relations between parties since the creation of the Fifth Republic in 1958, gave way to a new arrangement, based on three axes – identity, liberal economics and Europe. These policy areas would provoke major differences of opinion among supporters of the Centre Right, and lead a significant number of them to abandon Les Républicains, which was a major factor in the election of Emmanuel Macron. William Rispin completed his PhD in French Politics at the University of Warwick, UK. His work has focused on the evolution of the French party system and the problems faced by the Centre Right since 2002.French Politics, Society and Culture,2946-3769EuropePolitics and governmentElectionsPolitical leadershipPolitical scienceEuropean PoliticsElectoral PoliticsPolitical LeadershipGovernance and GovernmentEuropePolitics and government.Elections.Political leadership.Political science.European Politics.Electoral Politics.Political Leadership.Governance and Government.324.24403320.944Rispin William.1221975MiAaPQMiAaPQUtOrBLWBOOK9910483902703321The French centre right and the challenges of a party system in transition2833841UNINA