Votes for the extreme left, votes for the extreme right: the false symmetry

Nonna Mayer (1)

1 CEE - Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (Sciences Po, CNRS)

As Weber, Lazarsfeld does not claim at all - on the contrary - that actors, here the voters, are aware of the reasons that drive them. Yet, these reasons do explain their choice, and they can be objectively and methodically reconstructed (Boudon, 1998: 377).

Mots clés: Votes; Extreme left; Extreme right

Domaines: Science politique

Nonna Mayer. Votes for the extreme left, votes for the extreme right: the false symmetry. Mohamed Cherkaoui; Peter Hamilton. Raymond Boudon. A life in sociology, The Bardwell Press, pp.25 - 36, 2009, 9781905622184. ⟨hal-02402228⟩