Investigating Forty Years of French Politics Through Value Changes

• Autore: Belot Céline
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (246 pages)
• Disciplina: 320.94409045
• Altri autori: BréchonPierre Gonthierédéric
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Editor's note -- Investigating forty years of French politics through the prism of value change -- Abstract -- How values influence politics and how the European values study can help make sense of this influence -- Surveying and analyzing values in France -- Toward a new research agenda for values in French politics -- References -- Individualisation rising and individualism declining in France: How can this be explained? -- Abstract -- Individualisation and individualism: opposing evolutions -- Measuring individualisation -- Measuring individualism -- Evolution of individualisation and individualism -- What is the socio-demographic profile of individualised and individualistic people? -- Individualised and individualistic people: what are their family values and gender role viewpoints? -- Individualised and individualistic people: their sense of duty and security values -- Individualised and individualistic people: what about sociability? -- What is the political profile of individualised and individualistic people? -- The most explanatory individualisation and individualism variables -- Conclusions -- References -- How France participates? The impact of generational renewal on political participation (1981-2018) -- Abstract -- Introduction -- A normalization of protest -- The de-centering of voting -- The changing participation repertoire -- Conclusion and discussion -- References -- What goes with what and for whom? How political sophistication shapes the structuring of economic and cultural beliefs -- Abstract -- Introduction -- How political sophistication shapes belief systems -- Attitude consistency among the mass public -- Attitude consistency and political sophistication -- Attitude consistency and the left-right opposition -- Research design -- Research question and hypotheses -- Variables and methodology. ; Results -- The structuring of economic and cultural attitudes in France -- Political interest increases attitude consistency -- Political interest increases ideological gaps, except for immigration issues -- Conclusion and discussion -- References -- Notions of democracy in France: uncovering causes and consequences -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Conceptual overview -- Data, methods, cases and research assumptions -- Empirical findings -- Comparative overview -- Dimensions of notions of democracy -- Origins of notions of democracy -- Correlates of notions of democracy -- Diffuse political support: importance and evaluation of democracy -- Specific political support: political trust -- Political participation -- Conclusion -- References -- Disentangling varieties of French nationalism, why does it matter? -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Lay representations of French national identity: What do we know? -- From a contested to a consensual nationalism? Changes in French national pride (1981-2018) -- Towards a typology of the varieties of French nationalism -- Relationships between types of nationalism and socio-demographic characteristics -- Relationships between types of nationalism and political characteristics -- Is nationalism linked to social attitudes and policy preferences? -- Explaining attitudes towards immigrants by varieties of nationalism -- Explaining attitudes towards solidarity and welfare policies by varieties of nationalism -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Catholics, Muslims and the "nones": old and new cultural and political divides -- Abstract -- Religion and political attitudes in France: our knowledge and their limits -- Political attitudes, religious affiliation and cultural scales: data and indicators -- Testing possible interpretations -- Social composition -- Economic and moral attitudes. ; Conclusion and perspectives -- References -- Ni gauche ni droite? Positioning the candidates in the 2017 French presidential election -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Using the Boussole Présidentielle VAA to estimate party positions -- Information about political actors' policy stances in VAAs -- Data -- Method -- Scaling procedure -- Approach for interpreting the dimensionality -- Calibrating the data input -- Empirical analysis -- Calibrating the data using topic weights -- Interpreting the policy space -- Positioning the presidential candidates -- Conclusion -- References -- Correction to: Ni gauche ni droite? Positioning the candidates in the 2017 French presidential election -- Correction to: Fr Polit https:​doi.​org​10.​1057​s41253-​018-0059-8 -- References -- Out of the French closet: the political participation of gays and lesbians in France into perspective -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The history and politics of the French gay and lesbian movement -- A body of research concentrated on movements' history -- The transformation of the homosexual movement: going beyond the AIDS crisis moment -- Lesbians and other queers: going beyond the homosexual movement -- What about gays and lesbians as individuals? -- LGBT engagement processes: what are the effects of "tolerance" and formal equality? -- Establishing, discussing, and explaining the "sexuality gap" in France and European countries -- Conclusion and further questions -- References -- Portraits of France and the French: a review of three weighty contributions -- Introduction -- Strong claims, new knowledge and thought-provoking reflections -- The 2017 elections: watershed or Damp Squib? -- Multiple and compounded challenges to French 'republicanism' -- Gender and a backlash to it -- France in the world and in Europe -- Missed opportunities, gaps and blind-spots. ; Taking more from French social science -- A significant gap: climate change and the environment -- Change: from description to evaluating and explaining -- Conclusion -- References.
• ISBN: 3-031-46958-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910835062903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II