A New Radical Right Economic Agenda? The Transformation of The Front National in France
Résumé
The Front national (FN) has made an impressive come back in the 2012 French presidential election winning 17.9 per cent of the first-round vote. Such performance was bolstered by the economic and political context: in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, France had entered a period of economic instability, rising unemployment and deep social pessimism. This paper looks at how the FN has striven to adapt to the social demand for protection and redistribution in the French public. Under the leadership of Marine Le Pen, the party has undergone significant changes in its economic policies and endorsed statist redistributive economic policies. This paper examines the magnitude of this strategic programmatic shift by the FN, and to which extent the formulation of a renewed economic agenda has enabled the party to evolve towards an electorally more beneficial position in the 2012 presidential race
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Est décrite par halshs-00879951 Objet présenté à une conférence Gilles Ivaldi. A new radical right economic agenda?. Workshop on "Radical Right-wing Populists and the Economy", Documentation Centre Dutch Political Parties (DNPP), University of Groningen, Oct 2013, Groningen, Netherlands. ⟨halshs-00879951⟩
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A pour origine halshs-01387057 Objet présenté à une conférence Gilles Ivaldi. Successful Welfare-Chauvinism? The transformation of the Front National’s economic programme (1984-2012). 20th International Conference of Europeanists, Council for European Studies (Columbia University), Jun 2013, Amsterdam, Netherlands. ⟨halshs-01387057⟩
