The French Presidential and Legislative Elections Of 2002

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 The 2002 Elections in Institutional and Comparative Perspective -- 2 Presidential Competition: Prime Minister against President in 'Cohabitation' -- 3 The Presidential and Legislative Election Campaigns of 2002: A Strange Play in Four Acts -- 4 The Presidential and Legislative Elections of 2002: An Analysis of the Results -- 5 The Media and the Elections -- 6 The Television Campaigns for the French Elections of 2002 -- 7 Jacques Chirac's Campaign: President in Spite of Himself? -- 8 Lionel Jospin's Campaign and the Socialist Left: The 'Earthquake' and its Aftershocks -- 9 Jean-Marie Le Pen and the Front National: Crisis and Recovery -- 10 The Greens 2002: Coming Down to Earth -- 11 Rhetorical Divergence: Real Convergence? The Economic Policy Debate in the 2002 French Presidential and Legislative Elections -- 12 In Search of Lost Women: Alternative Political Maps in the Presidential Election of 2002 -- 13 The Effects of Gender Parity in Elections: The French Case -- 14 'Europe' in the 2002 French Elections -- 15 Election Dynamics, Party System Change and Regime Evolution in the 2002 Elections -- 16 A Crisis of Democracy? -- 17 Chronology of Events, January-June 2002 -- Index