The impact of economic and political factors on popularity in France (1981–2017)

• Published in: French politics Vol. 17; no. 4; pp. 451 - 467
• Main Author: Auberger, Antoine
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 01.12.2019; Palgrave Macmillan
• Subjects: Comparative Politics; Elections; European Politics; Hypotheses; Openness; Original Article; Partisanship; Political factors; Political parties; Political Science; Political Science and International Relations; Political Science and International Studies; Popularity; Punishment; Socialist parties; Unemployment; Voters; France; Economic situation; Econometric models; Popularity functions; Voters’ behaviour; Political variables

In this article, we study a popularity function for the popularity of the French political parties (1981Q2–2017Q1). At first, we suppose that voters have a retrospective behaviour according to the reward-punishment model in a closed economy. We show that the unemployment rate has a significant influ...