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The 1986 French Legislative Elections: Who Really Won? 1

The 1986 French Legislative Elections: Who Really Won? 1 Footnotes 1 I would like to thank the Research Council at Niagara University for awarding me a 1986 research fellowship that facilitated the completion of this manuscript. A fellowship from the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, allowed me to observe cohabitation in practice during the fall of 1986. The author, too, is indebted to Jeffra Flaitz of SUNY‐Buffalo for her instructive content and stylistic suggestions. 2 See Robert Verdier, PS/PC: une lutte pour l'entente (Paris, 1976), 277. 3 See Le Monde , 18 et 20 mars 1986. 4 Ibid., 18 mars 1986. Regional Assembly elections were held simultaneously with the National Assembly elections. In the regional elections, in which the voting system was also proportional representation, political coalitions of the right, in most instances RPR and UDF, gained a majority in fifteen of the twenty‐two regional assemblies. Yet the Front National emerged holding the balance between the right and left‐wing coalitions in five regions. 5 Jerôme Jaffre, ‘Les élections législatives du 16 mars: la défaite de la gauche et les progrés du PS’, Pouvoirs 38 (1986), 149–50. 6 Ibid., 149. 7 Ibid., 145–46. 8 See Wayne Northcutt, Francois Mitterrand: A Political Biography (forthcoming full‐length biography of the French http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Politics and History Wiley

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Wiley
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Copyright © 1987 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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0004-9522
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1467-8497
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8497.1987.tb01219.x
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Footnotes 1 I would like to thank the Research Council at Niagara University for awarding me a 1986 research fellowship that facilitated the completion of this manuscript. A fellowship from the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, allowed me to observe cohabitation in practice during the fall of 1986. The author, too, is indebted to Jeffra Flaitz of SUNY‐Buffalo for her instructive content and stylistic suggestions. 2 See Robert Verdier, PS/PC: une lutte pour l'entente (Paris, 1976), 277. 3 See Le Monde , 18 et 20 mars 1986. 4 Ibid., 18 mars 1986. Regional Assembly elections were held simultaneously with the National Assembly elections. In the regional elections, in which the voting system was also proportional representation, political coalitions of the right, in most instances RPR and UDF, gained a majority in fifteen of the twenty‐two regional assemblies. Yet the Front National emerged holding the balance between the right and left‐wing coalitions in five regions. 5 Jerôme Jaffre, ‘Les élections législatives du 16 mars: la défaite de la gauche et les progrés du PS’, Pouvoirs 38 (1986), 149–50. 6 Ibid., 149. 7 Ibid., 145–46. 8 See Wayne Northcutt, Francois Mitterrand: A Political Biography (forthcoming full‐length biography of the French

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Australian Journal of Politics and HistoryWiley

Published: Aug 1, 1987

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