IVALDI , Gilles

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...

1rst lines: The traditional left-right divide which shaped political competition across Europe in the post-war period is increasingly being supplanted by new patterns of competition. Drawing on the experience of the 2019 European Parliament elections, Anja Durovic, Caterina Froio, Gilles Ivaldi, Sarah de Lange, Nonna Mayer and Jan Rovny explain...

It is often assumed that conspiratorial thinking shares important affinities with the Manichean views of populism, and its profound distrust of elites and experts. Such connection between conspiracy theory and populism should be explored further, however, in order to shed light on the different ways in which they may be articulated in populist...

Le discours de l'extrême-droite française sur l'islam est loin d'être uniforme. L'adoption par le FN d'un nouveau référentiel républicain et laïc masque difficilement les représentations négatives des musulmans considérés selon le double prisme d'une immigration et d'une altérité jugées menaçantes. Mais au sein de certaines franges de la...

The French Front national (FN) is a prominent example of the West European radical right 'movement party', traditionally operating across the electoral arena and the far right milieu. Looking at changes that have occurred in both the party and social movement since the early 2000s, this chapter examines the current context for radical right...

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...

This paper examines the recent transformation of the French Front national (FN) under the leadership of Marine Le Pen, and assess to which extent the so-called 'de-demonization' strategy has altered the party's core ideology, party system status and primary goals. The analysis suggests that the FN has maintained its niche status and populist...

This paper aims to assess the French Front national's performances in municipal office following its success in securing a majority in four city councils in the mid-1990s. First, a brief account of the local political opportunity structures that participated in the municipal success of the FN is provided. The paper then suggests a...

This paper looks at the electoral performances of populist parties of the left, right and centre in the 2019 European elections. Using survey data, it examines the main drivers of the populist vote. The paper finds that populist voters do not all fit the so-called 'globalization losers' profile, yet they tend to see themselves as economically...

L'essor des partis et entrepreneurs populistes constitue un phénomène politique majeur au sein des nations occidentales . Les résultats des élections nationales récentes en Italie, en Allemagne, en Espagne, en France, en Autriche ou aux Pays-Bas ont témoigné de la dynamique électorale de mouvements populistes distribués sur l'ensemble de l'axe...

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A lot has happened in France since the book was published. Reflecting on recent changes in French politics, I will examine in this presentation the impact that the electoral success of the Front National has had on the party system and how mainstream actors –predominantly on the right of the political spectrum– have adapted gradually to the...

Beyond the specific circumstances of the 2002 elections which allowed Jean-Marie Le Pen to progress to the second round, but which saw a relative drop for FN and MNR candidates in the subsequent legislative ballots, the Extreme Right vote has a number of specific characteristics which raise it above the status of a simple protest vote which has...

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The purpose of this paper is to explore and discuss French party elites' attitudes to European integration and to contrast them with partisan discursive constructions of economic globalisation, on the one hand, and immigration, on the other, in the specific context of the post-ECT referendum. We look at how these 'active' sets of subjective...

The electoral success of populism has been one of the most significant political developments of recent decades, which has accelerated dramatically in the 2010s. While most of the research on populism has concentrated on conceptual issues, the analysis of populist discourse or explaining the rise of populist parties, the relevance of the...

L'usage de drogue est-il facteur de délinquance ? Quels types de liens unissent les pratiques délictueuses en général et la consommation de produits psychotropes, drogues ou alcool ? Débat récurrent et polémique de la recherche épidémiologique, la question de la relation entre substances psychoactives et une multiplicité de formes graves ou peu...

Cette communication examine la trajectoire idéologique et le déplacement opéré par le FN dans l'espace de la compétition partisane depuis son irruption sur la scène politique hexagonale au milieu des années 1980, avec un focus spécifique sur la dimension économique. Outre l'intérêt comparatif, ce choix de privilégier comme objet le rapport du...

Aus einer deutsch-französischen Perspektive setzen sich die Beiträge dieses Bandes mit dieser politisch wie wissenschaftlich gleichermaßen vielschichtigen und brisanten Thematik auseinander. Dabei werden zwei Forschungsstränge zusammengeführt, die bislang ein eher getrenntes Dasein führten: die europawissenschaftliche Forschung über europäische...

Sorti très affaibli de la séquence électorale de 2007, le Front national a retrouvé une place centrale au sein du jeu politique à l'occasion de l'élection présidentielle de 2012. Avec 17.9 % des suffrages, Marine Le Pen se place en troisième position le 22 avril et confirme le retour en force de sa formation. Porté par un contexte de crise...

The resurgence of populist radical right parties in European democracies has been one of the most scrutinized and thoroughly documented political phenomena in the past four decades. So far, the bulk of the existing comparative research on populist radical right parties has been mainly concerned with first-order elections in Western Europe, less...

Cette contribution propose une évaluation empirique des questions relatives à la transformation idéologique du Front national sous l'égide de Marine Le Pen depuis 2011. A partir d'une analyse longitudinale des positions du FN sur l'axe économique, notamment, il s'agit d'examiner la magnitude et la signification des ruptures programmatiques...

Despite its recent evolution, the French National Front maintains the distinctive features of the European populist radical right. The paper suggests continuation of the FN's "niche" strategy of politicizing cultural issues such as immigration and Islam, and the persistence of authoritarian and ethno-nationalist populism. The FN is currently a...

Building on the analysis of party communication in the 2007 presidential campaign in France, this paper explores two correlated aspects of change in patterns of partisan competition in the right pole of French politics. Looking at the strategic responses by the UMP to the rise of the FN in 2002, we examine first the process of profound...