The 2021 French regional elections: beyond second-order effects

IF 1.7 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Regional and Federal Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-08 DOI:10.1080/13597566.2023.2175351

Florent Gougou

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Re-election of all incumbent Presidents, most of them from the Socialist Party (PS) or the Republicans (LR), was the main feature of the French regional elections of 20 and 27 June 2021. As a result, regional government remained controlled by the two parties that have dominated French politics since the early 1980s, even though both lost the 2017 presidential and legislative elections to newcomer Emmanuel Macron. The second-order elections model captures part of these dynamics, but the candidate-centered politics model provides a more appropriate framework to understand the general pattern of these regional elections. In a context of increasing split-ticket voting between regional and departmental elections, which were held at the same time, an era of divided government seems to have emerged since 2017.

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2021年法国地区选举:超越二阶效应

在2021年6月20日和27日举行的法国地区选举中，所有现任总统(其中大部分来自社会党(PS)或共和党(LR))的连任是主要特点。结果，地方政府仍然由自20世纪80年代初以来一直主导法国政治的两个政党控制，尽管这两个政党在2017年的总统和立法选举中都输给了新人埃马纽埃尔·马克龙。二阶选举模型捕捉了这些动态的一部分，但以候选人为中心的政治模型提供了一个更合适的框架来理解这些地区选举的一般模式。在地区选举和部门选举同时进行的情况下，分裂投票越来越多，从2017年开始出现了分裂政府的时代。

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Regional and Federal Studies POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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3.80

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期刊介绍： The upsurge of academic and political interest in regional and federal questions since the 1980s has been stimulated by the salience of regions in EU policy-making and the Structural Funds but also by regionalization and federalization processes in many Western states. The most striking example is the devolution occurring in the UK, but the process is at work all over Europe and in other parts of the world. These developments have led to many important research programmes and projects. Regional and Federal Studies is a refereed social science journal which provides an academic forum for the publication of international research on these issues. It is essential reading for both academics and practitioners in politics, administration and the business world.