From The Front de gauche to La France insoumise: Causes and Consequences of the Conversion of the French Radical Left to Populism

• Autores: Chloé Alexandre, Antoine Bristielle, Laura Chazel
• Localización: Partecipazione e conflitto, ISSN-e 2035-6609, Vol. 14, Nº. 2, 2021 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Special Issue on: "Revolution and Counter-Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa" & "The value of the city. Rent extraction, housing and conflicts for the use of urban space"), págs. 933-953
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Combining a variety of materials and a mixed methods approach, this article shows how the space of the French radical left has evolved since the 2000s. It outlines the transition from a Marxist to a post-Marxist ideology, and the creation of two new organizations - the Front de gauche (Left Front), which aimed to bring together the radical left, and La France insoumise (Unbowed France), which sought to federate the people using a more transversal populist strategy. The similarities and differences between the two strategies are put into perspective, from a discursive point of view and at the level of the electorate.