The French Study: Political Leaders in the Super-Election of 2002 in France

Research question/goal: 

Due to its electoral and party system, France is a very particular case in comparative party and election studies. While this adds to the professional interest in empirical information about French electoral politics, the problem has been that comparable data are scarce. By administrating the CSES II module (Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, amended by a number of questions on leader traits and strategic voting) among a representative sample of French voters between the presidential and the parliamentary election of 2002, this project aims at diminishing that information gap.

Fact sheet

Funding: 
MZES, Thyssen Foundation, ZA (Cologne), and CSA (Paris)
Duration: 
2002 to 2005
Status: 
completed
Data Sources: 
representative post-election survey
Geographic Space: 
France

Publications

Books

Pütz, Christine (2004): Parteienwandel in Frankreich. Präsidentschaftswahlen und Parteien zwischen Tradition und Anpassung. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. [Frankreich-Studien; 8] more

Journal Articles

Gschwend, Thomas (2005): Analyzing Quota Sample Data and the Peer-Review Process. French Politics, 3, issue 1, pp. 88-91. more

Book Chapters

Schmitt, Hermann (2005): Politische Parteien, Links-Rechts-Orientierungen und die Wahlentscheidung in Deutschland und Frankreich. Pp. 551 - 571 in: Jürgen W. Falter, Oskar W. Gabriel, Bernhard Weßels (Eds.) Wahlen und Wähler. Analysen aus Anlass der Bundestagswahl 2002. Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. more
Gschwend, Thomas, and Dirk Leuffen (2004): Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Electoral Dilemmas and Turnout in the 2002 French Legislative Elections. Pp. 155-177 in: Michael S. Lewis-Beck (Ed.) The French Voter: Before and After the 2002 Elections. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave. more

MZES Working Papers

Gschwend, Thomas, and Dirk Leuffen (2003): When Voters Choose Regimes: The Issue of Cohabitation in the French Elections of 2002. Mannheim [Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 63] more