11 results on '"Ivaldi, Gilles"'
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2. Party system change and the demise of the post-Gaullist Right
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Evans, Jocelyn, Ivaldi, Gilles, University of Leeds, Unite de recherche migrations et sociétés (URMIS), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR205-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Queen Mary University of London, Tim Bale and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, ANR-15-ORAR-0006,SCoRE,Contextes Infra-Nationaux et vote de droite radicale en Europe(2015), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR205-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ANR-15-ORAR-0006,SCoRE,Sub-national context and radical right support in Europe, Centre de recherches politiques de Sciences Po (Sciences Po, CNRS) (CEVIPOF), Sciences Po (Sciences Po)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Tim Bale, Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Ivaldi, Gilles, Contextes Infra-Nationaux et vote de droite radicale en Europe - - SCoRE2015 - ANR-15-ORAR-0006 - ORAR - VALID, and Centre de recherches politiques de Sciences Po (CEVIPOF)
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Populism ,French politics ,Mainstream right ,Radical right ,Silent revolution ,Cultural backlash ,Political parties ,France ,Values ,[SHS.SCIPO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science ,Voters ,[SHS.SCIPO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science - Abstract
International audience; The 2017 French presidential and legislative elections constituted a crisis point for a mainstream Right which, since the mid-1980s, had proved remarkably adept at exploiting the political opportunity structure of the French political system to balance the centripetal forces of Silent Revolution value change and the ‘liberal consensus’ with the centrifugal pull of the Silent Counter-Revolutionary Front National (FN) on the populist radical right. This chapter will analyse how, throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, the conservative Gaullists and their centre-right liberal coalition partners constituted competing but stable bloc components within France’s two-round majoritarian electoral system, while pursuing weak accommodative strategies vis-à-vis the FN. The absence of an effective centre-located competitor ensured that the Gaullists’ increasing encroachment upon the centre-right’s support, culminating in the formation of the UMP in 2002, did not threaten the bloc’s stability. Conversely, from 2007 onwards, a more conservative mainstream Right faced challenges from both the populist radical right, reviving Silent Counter Revolution values which were again salient in the wake of the economic crisis, and renewed centrist formations largely accepting of progressive Silent Revolution cultural values. The chapter demonstrates that significant, simultaneous electoral challenge from the centrist and populist radical right compromised the Right bloc’s integrity, and recast the French party system, pulling liberal Republicans wing towards cooperation with the centrist government, and leaving conservative-authoritarian Republicans wing to drift towards the Radical Right.
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- 2019
3. The 2017 French Presidential Elections
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Evans, Jocelyn, Ivaldi, Gilles, Unite de recherche migrations et sociétés (URMIS), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR205-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and ANR-15-ORAR-0006,SCoRE,Contextes Infra-Nationaux et vote de droite radicale en Europe(2015)
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French politics ,Political parties ,Voting ,French presidential elections 2017 ,Voters ,[SHS.SCIPO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science - Abstract
International audience; Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the 2017 presidential elections represents one of the most important disruptions to French political life since the establishment of the Fifth Republic. This book analyses the political opportunities enabling a neophyte to conquer the Elysée, and the conditions leading to the unprecedented presidential runoff between this centrist EU enthusiast and pro-globalization candidate and the nationalistic/populist alternative embodied by Marine Le Pen. The book begins by considering trends in party competition and presidentialism in modern France, notably presidential primaries and their impact on party competition. It then moves to considering the role traditional explanatory factors in elections, namely policies and voter profiles, played in the result. Finally, it examines the dynamics of President Macron’s success in the legislatives, and how he dominated the traditional party blocs. This book will appeal to students of French politics as well as those interested in electoral behaviour and European political systems.
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- 2018
4. Economic populism and sovereigntism: the economic supply of European radical right-wing populist parties.
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Ivaldi, Gilles and Mazzoleni, Oscar
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SOVEREIGNTY , *POPULISM , *NEW right (Politics) , *POLITICAL parties , *AUTHORITARIANISM - Abstract
While economic issues are increasingly salient in political mobilization by European radical right-wing populist parties, we are still in need of a definition of these parties' economic positions. This paper argues that the economic supply of radical right populist parties is best characterized by a mix of economic populism and sovereigntism, which forms the basis of a common mobilization frame. Economic populism refers to defence of the economic prosperity of the 'heartland' against the elite and immigrants. Economic sovereigntism is seen, on the other hand, as a means of restoring the people's well-being and the nation's prosperity. To illustrate this argument, we conduct a qualitative analysis of five established European populist radical right parties. We demonstrate that, despite different socioeconomic stances, all parties under scrutiny share a common economic populist sovereigntist frame which claims to defend the self-identified economic interests and well-being of the people. We discuss the implications of our research for the broader understanding of populist mobilization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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5. The ‘territorialization’ of the Front National’s populist politics in France.
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Ivaldi, Gilles and Dutozia, Jérôme
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POPULISM ,POLITICAL parties - Abstract
Based on a case study of the French Front National (FN), this paper examines the territorialization of national-populist parties. We adopt a sub-national approach and ask to which extent the FN engages in different ideological and organizational strategies to take advantage of territorialized opportunities. We draw on a comparative qualitative analysis of two emblematic French regions with the highest electoral returns for the FN, namely Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur and Hauts-de-France. We find that the FN is adapting its supply of national-populism to different arenas and contexts where cultural and economic issues vary in salience and in the resonance they find in the political process. In doing so, the FN seems to be successfully meeting the needs and interests of the local constituencies that it targets. However, this may produce greater ideological and organizational heterogeneity, possibly hampering the party’s electoral prospects nationally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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6. It's not Economic Interventionism, Stupid! Reassessing the Political Economy of Radical Right‐wing Populist Parties.
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Otjes, Simon, Ivaldi, Gilles, Jupskås, Anders Ravik, and Mazzoleni, Oscar
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RIGHT-wing populism ,RIGHT & left (Political science) ,ECONOMIC policy ,INTERVENTION (Federal government) ,POLITICAL parties ,COMPARATIVE studies - Abstract
Abstract: This paper engages in a comparative analysis of the economic positions of radical right‐wing populist parties in Western Europe. Following Ennser‐Jedenastik ( ), we argue that those parties’ political economy is best captured in terms of the nativist, populist and authoritarian features of their core ideology, each of which produces a specific set of economic policies independent from the issue of government intervention in the economy. On basis of an analysis of the election manifestos of seven radical right‐wing populist parties in Western Europe in the period 2005‐2015, we argue that those parties share similarities in their economic nativism, authoritarianism and populism, whilst their positions on the traditional role of the state in the economy are more diverse. The findings indicate also a unified ‘nativist’ response to the global financial crisis both in terms of welfare chauvinism and economic protectionism. We discuss the role of internal and external factors in explaining the economic profile of radical right‐wing populist parties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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7. Contesting the EU in times of crisis: The Front National and politics of Euroscepticism in France.
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Ivaldi, Gilles
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POLITICAL systems , *EUROSCEPTICISM , *POLITICAL leadership , *POLITICAL parties , *POLITICAL science - Abstract
This article examines the performance and party system diffusion of Euroscepticism of the French Front National (FN) during recent European crises. The article argues that Europe’s successive crises since 2008 have been essentially ‘absorbed’ by the FN into its existing Eurosceptic framework which is guided by its radical right-wing ideology. While allowing the FN to successfully mobilize issues and grievances about the European Union (EU), Euroscepticism is, however, significantly impeding its strategy of governmental credibility. The article identifies the main political outcomes of these crises and finds differences in impact between the different EU crises on party competition over Europe. These findings provide insight into the relationship between the radical Right, Euroscepticism, and party competition. They also inform our current knowledge of Euroscepticism in French politics, and changes that EU crises have triggered, according to party system location and whether FN influence can be postulated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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8. Beyond France's 2005 Referendum on the European Constitutional Treaty:Second-Order Model, Anti-Establishment Attitudes and the End of the Alternative European Utopia
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Ivaldi, Gilles
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political parties ,referendum ,Traité constitutionnel Européen ,partis politiques ,ECT ,TCE ,France ,vote ,European Constitutional Treaty - Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview and characterisation of the rejection of the European Constitutional Treaty by a majority of voters in France's referendum held on 29 May 2005. Whilst pointing to the salience of political discontent with the incumbent right-wing government and some elements of the longstanding crisis in French national party politics, the analysis places the emphasis on the central role played by social issues in the referendum, the transposition at the European level of the mechanism of the evaluation by voters of traditional parties' performances and responsiveness to the country's social malaise and the unilateral termination by a majority of left-wing voters of the social welfare and economic growth confidence pact that they had made with their national political elites on the occasion of the Maastricht referendum in 1992
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- 2006
9. Comparing the extreme right in Belgium and France:Party ideology, electoral success and party system change
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Ivaldi, Gilles and Swyngedouw, Marc
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idéologie ,Belgique ,extrême droite ,Flandre ,ideology ,populisme ,Vlaams Blok ,extreme right ,racisme ,Front national ,populism ,Vlaams Belang ,political parties ,Belgium ,partis politiques ,Flanders ,France ,racism - Abstract
The purpose of this chapter is to contrast the situation of the Flemish Vlaams Blok and the French Front national on a number of key elements of party ideology, political competition and party system change since the mid 1980s. In deconstructing the ‘new society' utopia of the VB and FN, the analysis shows important similarities in the doctrine and, in spite of those parties' alleged commitment to representative democracy, illustrates a common and developed set of ethnocentrist, authoritarian, and anti-egalitarian values underpinning an essentially non-democratic ideology. The analysis draws on the electoral success, organisational development and institutionalisation of the far right in both countries and points to the comparable systemic isolation of those parties despite the growth and stabilisation of their electorates. This is the English version of: Ivaldi (Gilles), Swyngedouw (Marc), 2006, « Rechtsextremismus in populistischer Gestalt. Front National und Vlaams Blok » in Decker (Frank) (Hrsg.), Populismus. Gefahr für die Demokratie oder nützliches Korrektiv?, Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften / GWV Fachverlage GmbH, pp.121-143
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- 2005
10. Towards the median economic crisis voter? The new leftist economic agenda of the Front National in France.
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Ivaldi, Gilles
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ELECTIONS ,POLITICAL parties ,PRACTICAL politics ,ELECTIONS & economics ,FRENCH politics & government ,TWENTY-first century - Abstract
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 of manifesto data analysis, we find that despite having recently broadened its economic programme, the FN maintains a niche status in the party system. Our findings show, however, that the party has significantly shifted its economic platform, moving from a predominantly right-wing to a left-wing location since the mid-1980s. This move is characterized by an increase in egalitarian and nationalist economic policies, espousing also a populist framework. The reconfiguration of the FN suggests that the party may have moved to a pivotal position in recent years by converging around the economic preferences of the median voter. We discuss the role of internal and external factors in explaining the economic policy shift by the FN, and consider possible implications of our findings for understanding current populist radical right electoral dynamics in Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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11. Beyond France's 2005 referendum on the European constitutional treaty: Second-order model, anti-establishment attitudes and the end of the alternative European utopia.
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Ivaldi, Gilles
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UTOPIAS , *REFERENDUM , *CONSTITUTIONS , *POLITICAL parties , *PUBLIC welfare ,FRENCH politics & government - Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview and characterisation of the rejection of the European Constitutional Treaty by a majority of voters in France's referendum held on 29 May 2005. Whilst pointing to the salience of political discontent with the incumbent right-wing government and some elements of the longstanding crisis in French national party politics, the analysis places the emphasis on the central role played by social issues in the referendum, the transposition at the European level of the mechanism of the evaluation by voters of traditional parties' performances and responsiveness to the country's social malaise and the unilateral termination by a majority of left-wing voters of the ‘social welfare and economic growth’ confidence pact that they had made with their national political elites on the occasion of the Maastricht referendum in 1992. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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