Table of Contents

Preface Introduction: French Election Theories and the 2002 Results; M.S.Lewis-Beck France's 2002 Presidential Elections: Old and New Territorial Fractures; A.Laurent Do Issues Matter? Law and Order in the 2002 French Presidential Election; N.Mayer & V.Tiberj Ideology and Party Identification: A Normalization of French Voting Anchors?; J.Evans Old Wine in New Bottles? New Wine in Old Bottles? Class, Religion and Vote in the French Electorate; B.Cautrès Strategic Voting in the 2002 French Presidential Elections; A.Blais Institutions and Voters: Structuring Electoral Choice; R.Elgie Could There Possibly Have Been Economic Voting?; G.Whitten Dual Governance and Economic Voting: France and the United States; M.S.Lewis-Beck & R.Nadeau Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Electoral Dilemmas and Turnout in the 2002 French Legislative Elections; T.Gschwend & D.Leuffen Forecasting the 2002 Elections: Lessons From a Political Economy Model; B.Jérôme & V.Jérôme-Speziari Vote Functions in France and the 2002 Election Forecast; E.Dubois & C.Fauvelle-Aymar National Economic Voting in France: Objective vs. Subjective Measures; E.Bélanger & M.S.Lewis-Beck

About the Author

ERIC BÉLANGER Department of Political Science, University of Montreal, Canada ANDRÉ BLAIS Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Montreal, Canada BRUNO CAUTRÈS Director, Bangue des Données Sociopolitiques, University of Grenoble, France ERIC DUBOIS University of Paris-I Panthéon Sorbonne, France ROBERT ELGIE Paddy Moriarty Professor of Government and International Studies, Dublin City University, Ireland JOCELYN EVANS Lecturer in Politics, University of Salford, UK CHRISTINE FAUVELLE-AYMAR Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Paris-I Panthéon Sorbonne, France THOMAS GSCHWEND University of Mannheim, Germany BRUNO JÉRÔME Department of Economics, University of Metz, France VERONIQUE JÉRÔME-SPEZIARI Department of Economics, University of Metz, France ANNIE LAURENT University of Lille, France DIRK LEUFFEN University of Mannheim, Germany NONNA MAYER Research Director, CEVIPOF, Paris Institute for Political Studies, France RICHARD NADEAU Professor of Political Science, University of Montreal, Canada VINCENT TIBERJ CEVIPOF, France GUY WHITTEN Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Texas A & M University, USA