Parliamentary Affairs: special issue on 'The 2017 French presidential and parliamentary elections' (vol 71, issue 3, 2018)

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Parliamentary Affairs: special issue on 'The 2017 French presidential and parliamentary elections' (vol 71, issue 3, 2018)

1 Jul 2018

To mark the 2017 French parliamentary and presidential election, this special issue of Parliamentary Affairs looks at the realignment of French politics and revival of the presidency, the demise of the Left, and how policy choices for the Front National influenced its electoral success.

Articles

Rethinking the Franchise Party: Adding the Ideological Dimension—The Irish Case Sean D McGraw
Representing Diversity in Mixed Electoral Systems: The Case of New Zealand Fiona Barker, Hilde Coffé
Amateurs versus Professionals: Explaining the Political (in)Experience of Canadian Members of Parliament James T Pow
Digital Media, Ground Wars and Party Organisation: Does Stratarchy Explain How Parties Organise Election Campaigns? Glenn Kefford
Parliamentarisation as a Two-Way Process: Explaining Prior Parliamentary Consultation for Military Interventions (editors' choice) Daan Fonck, Yf Reykers
Do Party Lists Matter? Political Party Strategies in Legislative Candidate Nominations Yüksel Alper Ecevit, Gülnur Kocapınar

Special collection: the 2017 French presidential and parliamentary elections

Guest editor: Raymond Kuhn

French Revolution? The 2017 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections Raymond Kuhn
Crowning Jupiter: The 2017 French Electoral Series in Perspective Alistair Cole
Left and Centre-Left in France—Endgame or Renewal? David Hanley
Electoral Performance and Policy Choices in the Front National James Shields
Structure Versus Accident in the Defeat of France’s Mainstream Right, April–June 2017 Andrew Knapp

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