The Candidates
Amateurs and Professionals in French Politics
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 19 June 2024
- ISBN 9780197665961
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages192 pages
- Size 160x132x20 mm
- Weight 272 g
- Language English 497
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Short description:
Can amateurs transform politics? And what do they tell us about what politics is? This book is based on a rare social experiment. In 2017, in the aftermath of Macron's election in France, over 100 novices were elected to the French parliament. The author followed their steps during these five years. The result is a gripping story about their discovery of this peculiar world, which sheds lights on pressing contemporary debates about democratic rejuvenation.
MoreLong description:
In 2017, the French political class experienced a small revolution. After decades marked by the ever more pronounced presence of career politicians in positions of power, the country elected a new President with limited experience. And in the aftermath of Emmanuel Macron's victory, an unusual legislature was elected. Rejuvenated, feminised, it was also made up of more than a hundred complete political novices.
In The Candidates, author Étienne Ollion follows an ethnographic journey among these new MPs, while drawing on massive digital data analysed with artificial intelligence methods. The result is a gripping story about their discovery of this peculiar world, which sheds lights on pressing contemporary debates about democratic rejuvenation.
“Painstakingly researched, rigorously argued, and beautifully written, this book not only offers an insightful deep dive into the often-paradoxical world of French politics but also, and as importantly, a way of understanding and explicating the relationship between political trajectory, experience, and actual practice all over the world.”
Javier Auyero, University of Texas at Austin
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. Down With Career Politicians!
2. A Palace War, Not a Revolution
3. Ep-and-Comers
4. Life Changes
5. The Passion for Politics
Conclusion: In the Waiting Line
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
