Marlière, Philippe;
(2024)
French Social Democracy in Turmoil.
The Political Quarterly
, 95
(4)
pp. 645-652.
10.1111/1467-923X.13442.
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Abstract
For decades, the Parti socialiste (PS) was the major party of the French left. It elected a president three times and was a ruling party on several occasions between 1981 and 2017, at which point it suffered crushing defeats in the 2017 presidential and legislative elections. Since then, the PS has been between a rock and a hard place: on the left, it is dominated by Jean-Luc Mélenchon's La France Insoumise (LFI, Unbowed France) and on the right by Macron's Renaissance party. The success of both parties has a lot to do with the PS's own setbacks. Emmanuel Macron's election in 2017 was rendered possible by internal conflicts in the PS during François Hollande's term. Those who thought that Benoît Hamon's candidacy was too left-wing that year, or those who now regard an alliance with Mélenchon as ‘illegitimate’, found refuge in Macron's party. This article aims to explain the reasons for the PS's dramatic setbacks and to explore its prospects for recovery.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | French Social Democracy in Turmoil |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1467-923X.13442 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923x.13442 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2024 The Author(s). The Political Quarterly published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of The Political Quarterly Publishing Co. Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | French socialism, Parti Socialiste, France Insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, social democracy, France |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > SELCS |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10205782 |
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