Title How the French learned to vote : a history of electoral practice in France / Malcolm Crook

Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 262 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps Contents Cover -- How the French Learned to Vote: A History of Electoral Practice in France -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Foreword and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures, Maps, and Tables -- Figures -- Maps -- Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Maps -- Introduction: Why France? -- France as Exemplar and Exception -- What Makes this Study Different? -- The Issues to be Explored -- Chapter 1: One Man, One Vote: The Long March towards Universal Male Suffrage -- The Revolutionary Origins of Universal Male Suffrage -- From Indirect Elections to Restricted Franchise, 1790-1848 The Unexpected Advent of Direct Universal Male Suffrage in 1848 -- The Entrenchment of Universal Male Suffrage under the Third Republic -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2: Women Had to Wait: A Stubbornly Resisted Female Franchise -- Framing an Issue and an Agenda, 1789-1848 -- Organizing and Campaigning, 1870-1914 -- Legislative Expectations -- Suffrage Stalemate, 1922-1939 -- The Female Electoral Apprenticeship after 1945 -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: The Voters' Choice: The Question of Candidatures -- Voting in a Void? -- The Emergence of Public Candidatures -- Official Candidatures The Imposition of Declared Candidatures -- Still Spoiled for Choice -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: A Matter of Persuasion: Campaigning and Corruption -- Hidden Agendas under the Ancien Régime and Revolution -- The Gradual Emergence of Open Electioneering -- The Professionalization of Electoral Contests -- The Cost of Campaigning -- Electoral Fraud -- Treating and Bribery -- Intimidation -- Combating Corruption -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Open Secrets: From Public to Private Polling -- The Birth of the Ballot Paper -- The Resurgence of Open Voting -- A Secret Vote Cast in Public -- Open Secrets The Technology of the Urne and the Isoloir -- Paperless Polling? Mechanical and Electronic Voting -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Getting Out the Vote: Electoral Mobilization -- Ancien Régime Imponderables -- Mass Voting under the Revolution and Napoleon, 1790-1815 -- Turnout in Electoral Colleges, 1790-1848 -- Establishing the Practice of Universal Male Suffrage, 1848-1880s -- Voting Becomes a Habit, 1880s-1980s -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7: Voting as a Subversive Activity: The Ballot Paper as Protest -- Spoiling: A Historic but Lately Growing Trend -- Blank Voting -- Annotated Papers -- Appropriation Subversion -- Annotation, a Deep-Rooted Practice -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8: Gone Fishing: Non-Voting and the Problem of Abstention -- Abstention in the Age of Revolution -- Non-Voting Becomes a Problem -- Obligation Becomes an Obsession under the Third Republic -- The Quest for Compulsory Voting since the Second World War -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: Unfinished Business -- Appendix 1: A Chronology of Significant Electoral Legislation and Changes of Regime, 1789-2014 -- Appendix 2: The Size of the Registered, 'Metropolitan' Electorate, 1790-2017 Summary This is a comprehensive history of voting in France, which offers original insights into all aspects of electoral activity that today involve most adults across the world Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed July 19, 2021) Subject Elections -- France -- History Voting -- France -- History Suffrage -- France -- History Political participation -- France -- History Elections Political participation Politics and government Suffrage Voting SUBJECT France -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051450 Subject France Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780192647665 0192647660 9780192647658 0192647652 9780191915659 0191915653

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