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Beat the Incumbent
Incumbents enjoy many advantages when they seek reelection, but their distinct disadvantages (such as not fulfilling promises or staying within the status quo) are ripe weaknesses for opposing candidates to knock them down. Studying the US’s Barack Obama, Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, and France’s Emmanuel Macron, among many other candidates, political strategist Louis Perron, PhD, describes tactics to assess the strength of the incumbent, the quality of the challenger, and how to control and win a campaign. Readers interested in running for office or in assisting a political campaign will learn how to build a top-notch team, define your target audience, increase your media presence, d...
A Divided Republic
A bold interpretation of contemporary French political culture that uses current political debates to understand how the French engage with politics.
Left-of-centre Parties and Trade Unions in the Twenty-first Century
This volume examines and assesses the contemporary relationships between old left-of-centre parties and trade unions in twelve countries that have been democracies since at least the mid- to late-1940s.
The Godless Crusade
Explores how right-wing populists use religion as a cultural identity marker for minorities, while remaining distanced from Christian values, beliefs, and institutions. Based on interviews with key figures in the USA and Europe, this book asks how religiously diverse societies can confront the rise of a secular, populist and identitarian right.
Political Rationale and International Consequences of the War in Libya
Political Rationale and International Consequences of the War in Libya focuses on the international intervention in Libya in 2011, and tries to answer two broad questions; (1) What was the political rationale for the various actors to proceed as they did in the lead-up and conduct of the military intervention in Libya?, (2) What are the consequences of the UN-authorized military intervention in Libya? R2P was the public raison d'etre of the war, and an important legitimizing factor of the intervention. Still, the humanitarian situation was a necessary, but not in and by itself an adequate precondition for intervention. A number of factors coalesced to enable the intervention. While the human...
COVID-19 in Europe and North America
Have the countries’ internal boundaries played a role in the response to the Covid-19 epidemic? What does the coronavirus crisis tell us about the sometimes strained relationship between national and regional/federal governments? This collective loock at the short- and medium term impact of the COVID-19 crisis on relations between central and regional governments.
France Since the 1970s
An examination of the varied ways in which French politics has adapted to a growing sense of political and economic uncertainty since the late 1960s.
La peur du peuple
Zapatistes, Indignés, Occupy, Printemps érable et Gilets jaunes. Alors que certains érigent ces mouvements populaires en idéal de la démocratie directe, d’autres n’y voient que des mobilisations certes sympathiques mais insignifiantes, quand ils ne tentent pas de les discréditer en les associant à la violence. S’appuyant sur une grande diversité d’expériences des pratiques démocratiques d’hier et d’aujourd’hui, y compris hors de l’Occident, Francis Dupuis-Déri propose une réflexion inspirée et critique. Ce récit de la lutte historique entre agoraphobie et agoraphilie, entre la haine et l’amour de la démocratie directe, offre une analyse approfondie des arguments et des manœuvres des deux camps et du rapport délicat entre le peuple assemblé à l’agora pour délibérer (le dêmos) et celui qui descend dans la rue (la plèbe). D’abord paru en 2016, cet ouvrage à la fois original et provocateur est d’autant plus stimulant qu’il se situe à la croisée des chemins de la philosophie politique, de l’anthropologie et de la sociologie.
Emmanuel Macron and the two years that changed France
This book looks at the period 2015–18 in French politics, a turbulent time that witnessed the apparent collapse of the old party system, the taming of populist and left-wing challenges to the Republic and the emergence of a new political order centred on President Emmanuel Macron. The election of Macron was greeted with relief in European chancelleries and appeared to give a new impetus to European integration, even accomplishing the feat of making France attractive after a long period of French bashing and reflexive decline. But what is the real significance of the Macron presidency? Is it as transformative as it appears? Emmanuel Macron and the two years that changed France provides a balanced answer to this pressing question. It is written to appeal to a general readership with an interest in French and European politics, as well as to students and scholars of French politics.
