TY - BOOK AU - Evans,Jocelyn AU - Ivaldi,Gilles ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - The 2012 french presidential elections: the inevitable alternation T2 - French Politics, Society and Culture SN - 9781137011640 PY - 2013/// CY - London PB - Palgrave Macmillan UK, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Science KW - Science, general N2 - Was the victory of François Hollande, the Socialist challenger to Nicolas Sarkozy, inevitable in the 2012 French Presidential elections? This book argues that a combination of economic downturn, policy choices and personal unpopularity meant that the Right-wing incumbent faced an almost impossible task in holding onto power for another five years UR - https://eresourcesptsl.ukm.remotexs.co/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137011640 ER -