De quand date le clivage gauche/droite en France

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ID4469205
AuthorsMarc Crapez (corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume48
Issue1
Pages42-75
Publication date1998-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevue française de science politique (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0035-2950 • E-ISSN: 1950-6686
PublisherPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/rfsp.1998.395251
OpenAlexW2086298816
LanguageFR
Citations received5

When did the left/right cleavage appear in france ? Conventional wisdom has it that the right/left cleavage dates from the French Revolution. But everything indicates that it became rooted only at the time of the Combes government (1902-1905) and that it has been definitively in place only since the 1930s. The causes of its emergence deserve scrutiny. Initially, the propaganda of political actors, the habits of literary circles and the militancy of the intellectual spheres seem to have contributed to it. Beyond that problem and fragmentary answers to it, placing the right/left cleavage in its historical context raises an important question : can one make retroactive use of it, as of the 19th century ? That can be argued, under the condition of being aware of certain dangers. In the late 19th century, the Third Republic was built much more on the preponderance of the center than on any dualistic confrontation

Cleavage (geology) · Context (archaeology) · Humanities · Political science · Politics · Scrutiny · European Political History Analysis · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Philosophy

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