The French Study: the Strategies of Voters in the Super-Election of 2002 in France

Research question/goal: 

Due to its electoral and party system, France is a very interesting case for studying strategic voting comparatively because the election outcome of the first round should have a strong impact on the proclivity to vote strategically in the second round. Moreover the super election year of 2002 provides a unique opportunity to identify strategies and assess political consequences of strategies that aim to balance various levels of governance (e.g., cohabitation).

Fact sheet

Funding: 
MZES, Thyssen Foundation, ZA (Cologne) and CSA (Paris)
Duration: 
2002 to 2005
Status: 
completed
Data Sources: 
Survey, district level election results
Geographic Space: 
France

Publications

Journal Articles

Gschwend, Thomas (2005): Analyzing Quota Sample Data and the Peer-Review Process. French Politics, 3, issue 1, pp. 88-91. more
Gschwend, Thomas, and Dirk Leuffen (2005): Divided We Stand - Unified We Govern? Cohabitation and Regime Voting in the 2002 French Elections. British Journal of Political Science, 35, pp. 691-712. more

Book Chapters

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

Conference Presentations

Pütz, Christine (2004): Das politische System der V. Republik: Präsidentschaftswahlen und Parteien als Stabilisatoren. [Das politische System der V. Republik – eine Lösung des französischen Regierbarkeitsproblems? Kolloquium zu Ehren von Herrn Prof. Dr. Adolf Kimmel, Europäische Akademie, Otzenhausen/Saar, October 01st to October 02nd, 2004] more