The National Front and French Politics: The Resistible Rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen.

1996 ◽  
Vol 111 (1) ◽  
pp. 172
Author(s):  
Hans-Georg Betz ◽  
Jonathan Marcus
Keyword(s):  
National Front ◽  
French Politics

The National Front and French Politics: The Resistible Rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen

1996 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 154
Author(s):  
Stanley Hoffmann ◽  
Jonathan Marcus
Keyword(s):  
National Front ◽  
French Politics

A Big-Data Approach to Contemporary French Politics

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 625-634
Author(s):  
Andrew Sobanet ◽  
Lisa Singh
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
French Politics

Populism and the rational choice model: The case of the French National Front

2021 ◽  
pp. 104346312199596
Author(s):  
François Facchini ◽  
Louis Jaeck
Keyword(s):  
Political Party ◽  
General Model ◽  
Choice Model ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Utility Model ◽  
National Front ◽  
General Process ◽  
Expressive Voting ◽  
Rational Choice Model ◽  
Political Norms

This article proposes a general model of partisan political dealignment based on the theory of expressive voting. It is based on the Riker and Odershook equation. Voters cast a ballot for a political party if the utility associated with expressing their support for it is more than their expressive costs. Expressive utility is modeled here as a certain utility model. Then, the model is applied to the rise of voting support in favor of French right-wing populists, the National Front (FN). We show that the fall of justification costs of FN ideology along with the decline in stigmatization costs of voting in favor of the extreme right has fostered the popularity of this party. Political dealignment here is only a particular case of a general process of political norms transgression inherited by each voter.

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