The National Front in France: from Lunatic Fringe to Limited Respectability

2019 ◽  
pp. 19-49
Author(s):  
William Safran
Keyword(s):  
National Front ◽  
Lunatic Fringe

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.

Sri Lanka in 2002: Turning the Corner?

Asian Survey ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 215-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amita Shastri
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Peace Process ◽  
Political Structure ◽  
National Front ◽  
International Support ◽  
Major Progress

Embroiled in a civil war for two decades, a peace process was reinitiated in Sri Lanka with international support. Has Sri Lanka finally turned the corner from war? This article argues that major progress has been made by the United National Front government in opening a dialogue with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Yet, major hurdles remain: support by the Tigers for a political solution remains conditional, they have not laid down their arms, and negotiating an agreement about the prospective political structure promises to be problematic.

scholarly journals Excess Lunatic Fringe Causes Cranial Neural Crest Over-Proliferation

2001 ◽  
Vol 235 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Nellemann ◽  
Maria Elena de Bellard ◽  
Meyer Barembaum ◽  
Ed Laufer ◽  
Marianne Bronner-Fraser
Keyword(s):  
Neural Crest ◽  
Cranial Neural Crest ◽  
Lunatic Fringe

The Search for Ideas in Historical Investigation

1981 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
William O. Aydelotte
Keyword(s):  
Formal Methods ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Technical Standards ◽  
Lunatic Fringe ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Historical Investigation ◽  
Formal Arrangement ◽  
Analytical Tools

There has been over the last several decades an active campaign for the use of systematic methods in historical research, particularly for the verification of contentions by the most rigorous means that our information and our analytical tools, quantitative ones when possible, can provide. It is probably correct to say that by now this battle is largely won, in principle at least. Few historians still object to formal arrangement of the evidence or to counting, even if many of them do not do things quite this way themselves. Methods that a generation ago were regarded as outrageous and on the lunatic fringe of scholarship are no longer controversial. It is true that a few diehards in the profession still protest against these innovations. On the other hand, some at the opposite end of the methodological spectrum contend that we have not gone far enough—that historical projects have not maintained acceptable technical standards and that ventures of historians into formal methods have been elementary and intellectually sloppy (Kousser, 1977). It is proper that these questions should be raised and no doubt there is room for improvement. Yet at least scholars have become aware of the value of systematic research and have begun to discuss in constructive fashion what needs to be done to make it more effective.

Regulation of intrathymic T-cell development by Lunatic Fringe? Notch1 interactions

2006 ◽  
Vol 209 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioana Visan ◽  
Julie S. Yuan ◽  
Joanne B. Tan ◽  
Kira Cretegny ◽  
Cynthia J. Guidos
Keyword(s):  
T Cell ◽  
T Cell Development ◽  
Cell Development ◽  
Lunatic Fringe
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