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Title Investigating forty years of French politics through value changes / Céline Belot, Pierre Bréchon, Frédéric Gonthier, editors
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2024

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 246 pages)
Contents 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
Summary This book argues for an approach based on values when trying to make sense of shifts and changes that occurred in French politics during the last four decades. Values play a pivotal role in structuring political views and policy preferences. They influence citizens' attitudes and behaviors as well as reflect long-lasting political cultures and cleavages. After presenting the data collected within the European values studies, on which the six contributions included in this book build, we explain how these contributions highlight some major French political dynamics by scrutinizing key driving forces such as the individualization process, generational replacement or ideological consistency in economic and cultural beliefs, and by re-assessing how attitudes toward democracy, religiosity and nationalism shape political attitudes. Challenging dominant narratives of value crisis, this book sets up an agenda for future research on French politics through the lens of value change. Previously published in French Politics Volume 19, issue 2-3, September 2021. Céline Belot is Researcher at the University of Grenoble, France. Pierre Bréchon is Professor at the University of Grenoble, France. Frédéric Gonthier is Professor Emeritus at the University of Grenoble, France
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 29, 2024)
SUBJECT France -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- History
France -- Politics and government -- 21st century -- History
Form Electronic book
Author Belot, Céline, editor.
Bréchon, Pierre, 1947- editor.
Gonthier, Frédéric, editor.
ISBN 9783031469589
3031469585