The Electoral Politics of the French Peasantry

1946–1978

Bibliographic Data

ID6345286
AuthorsMichael S Lewis-Beck (0000-0003-0301-5497, University of Iowa, corresponding author)
Year1981
Volume29
Issue4
Pages517-536
Publication date1981-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitical Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0032-3217 • E-ISSN: 1467-9248
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9248.1981.tb01322.x
OpenAlexW2069399787
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited12

Past research has concluded that French peasants differ politically from their counterparts in other nations, because they are highly participative and exhibit no pattern of class voting. This analysis, in contrast, demonstrated that the peasantry is less involved in electoral politics than any other occupational group in French society. Moreover, they are distinctly anti-Left in their political preferences, forming a ‘supporting class of the bourgeoisie.’ These rather traditional behaviours are regularly observed in surveys across the post-war period, persisting despite the substantial modernization of French agriculture

Bourgeoisie · Demographic economics · Economic history · Economics · Electoral geography · Modernization theory · Period (music · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Voting · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Horticultural and Viticultural Research · Law

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