The Evolution of Political Attitudes and Policy Preferences in France

Stimson, James A.; Tiberj, Vincent; Thiébaut, Cyrille

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“…In 2012, by contrast, evidence on public attitudes strongly suggested that social and economic issues were at the centre of French voters' concerns (Lewis-Beck, Nadeau and Bélanger, 2012). The public policy mood was a sombre one, tainted by a fear of globalisation and economic insecurity (Stimson, Tiberj and Thiébault, 2013). In 2017, public policy debates were overwhelmed by a crisis of trust in political parties and a desire to sweep away the established partisan order.…”

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Crowning Jupiter: The 2017 French Electoral Series in Perspective

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2017

Parliamentary Affairs

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This article discusses the 2017 elections in the context of a framework of analysis based on three levels of analysis: the institutional, the partisan and the situational. The framework used not only elucidates the extraordinary campaign and results, but places them in a diachronic perspective in order to assess the claim that the 2017 electoral series marked a partisan realignment. The 2017 campaign rewrote almost all of the rules associated with the presidential election. For the first time in the Fifth Republic, the incumbent president decided not to stand for re-election, signifying a state of institutional disarray. Moreover, neither of the candidates representing the traditional governing parties, the Republicans or the Socialists, won through to the second round, which saw centrist Emmanuel Macron comfortably elected against the National Front's Marine Le Pen. Following in the wake of Macron's presidential victory, the 2017 parliamentary election conferred upon the Jupiterean President the overall parliamentary majority he had called for. If the presidency has escaped its worst-case scenario, and if Macron's election provides a window of opportunity to revive the presidency, the question of political and institutional trust is far from resolved. The presidential election is traditionally considered as the core decisive election on which French politics is centred. The 2017 presidential contest was the tenth direct 2 election of the Fifth Republic. The headline conclusions of the two rounds of 23 April and 7 May are rapidly summarised. For the first time in the Fifth Republic, the candidate representing the mainstream republican Right (understood as comprising both the Gaullist and liberal-conservative traditions) did not win through to the second round; and, while the Socialists failed in 1969 and 2002, the candidate they supported has also

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Crowning Jupiter: The 2017 French Electoral Series in Perspective

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2017

Parliamentary Affairs

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“…In political discourse, it is not uncommon to refer to native citizens as “ Français de souche ” (“purebred French”) to distinguish them from French citizens with a foreign origin (Geissier 2015; Mazouz 2017). Simon (2013) similarly documents the political use of the term “ Français de papier ” (“French on paper”) to designate naturalized immigrants and the French-born of immigrant parents, undermining the value of their citizenship. These terms suggest “true Frenchness” relies on an inherited trait and communicates the unattainability of native Frenchness.…”

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“…Yet, some scholars argue that France is in fact a powerful example of ethnoracial citizenship (Beaman 2015; Escafré-Dublet and Simon 2014; Laxer 2019; Silverstein 2008; Simon 2013). This is rooted in France’s colonial history, when the French state used categorical distinctions between different types of populations living in its colonies.…”

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“…Brubaker (1992) famously contrasted the open “assimilationist” political model of France with the more closed “ethnocultural” regime of Germany, where citizenship was long attached to blood descent. However, despite France’s potent civic and universalist national narrative, scholars also point to the strong ethnoracial component that underpins the boundaries of citizenship and national belonging (Beaman 2015; Laxer 2019; Simon 2013). This tension is embodied in the categorization tools implemented by the French state, which simultaneously encapsulate both civic and ethnoracial dimensions of citizenship.…”

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Born Again French: Explaining Inconsistency in Citizenship Declarations in French Longitudinal Data

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McAvay,

Safi

2023

Am Sociol Rev

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Citizenship is a fundamental boundary in contemporary societies that entails rights, a sense of belonging, and social status. Drawing on longitudinal census data, this article tracks individual changes in self-reported citizenship over 30 years in France. Respondents choose one of three categories: “French by birth,” “became French,” or “foreigner.” The first category should be stable over the life course: one is born, but cannot become, “French by birth.” Yet, our findings indicate that about 19 percent of foreign-origin respondents in a given census switch to “French by birth” declarations at the next census, in a process we call reclassification. Immigrant assimilation variables, such as nativity and length of stay, and events such as intermarriage, naturalization, and residential mobility, trigger reclassification. Yet reclassification is also higher among individuals with lower socioeconomic status and respondents of African and Southeast Asian origin, as well as those with origins in former French colonies. These findings suggest reclassification is a byproduct of immigrant assimilation, which triggers feelings of national identity, as well as status upgrading, whereby disadvantaged and discriminated groups change their citizenship declaration to compensate for low social status. Empirically novel, reclassification offers original theoretical insights into the meanings of citizenship, civic stratification, and boundary-crossing.

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The Evolution of Political Attitudes and Policy Preferences in France

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Crowning Jupiter: The 2017 French Electoral Series in Perspective

Crowning Jupiter: The 2017 French Electoral Series in Perspective

Born Again French: Explaining Inconsistency in Citizenship Declarations in French Longitudinal Data

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