France After 2012

This book analyzes the contexts and results of the 2012 presidential and parliamentary elections in France. It assesses the legacies of the Sarkozy presidency that informed the 2012 electoral campaigns, scrutinizing his domestic social and economic policies on the one hand and European and foreign policies on the other. In turn, the elections' outcomers are also analyzed from the standpoint of various political parties and other institutional interests in France, and the results are situated within the broader run of French political history