Graduation Year
2020
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Politics and International Relations
Second Department
French Studies
Reader 1
Sumita Pahwa
Reader 2
Nathalie Rachlin
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2020 Anna Liss-Roy
Abstract
This paper aims to evaluate the implications of France’s Gilets Jaunes movement for French representative democracy. The Gilets Jaunes movement is unprecedented due to its durability and its resistance to institutional support, including political parties, labor unions and civil society organizations. This paper contextualizes the movement’s demands and particularities through a demographical analysis of its participants and an investigation of its characterization as “anti-system” to understand what changes in partisan identification foreshadow for French democracy.
Recommended Citation
Liss-Roy, Anna, "Anti-Party, Pro-Politics: The Gilets Jaunes’ Challenge to French Representative Democracy" (2020). Scripps Senior Theses. 1600.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1600
