The Electoral impact of the crisis on the French “working class”: more to the right?

Nonna Mayer (1)

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

This chapter explains the electoral impact of the 2008 financial crisis on the French working class. Drawing from survey data over a period of thirty years, it shows that the crisis has mainly amplified long term trends: the dealignment of manual workers from the Left and their realignment towards the far right, Marine Le Pen drawing even more votes in this occupational group than her father.

Keywords: working class; populism; class voting; extreme right votes; dealignment; realignment

Domains: Sociology; Political science

Nonna Mayer. The Electoral impact of the crisis on the French “working class”: more to the right?. Nancy Bermeo; Larry M Bartels. Mass Politics in Tough Times. Opinions, Votes, and Protest in the Great Recession, Oxford University Press, pp.266 - 296, 2014. ⟨hal-02402252⟩