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A PRELIMINARY NOTE ON FRENCH POLITICAL GENERATIONS
Author(s) -
BON FRÉDÉRIC,
JAFFRÉ JÉRÔME
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
european journal of political research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.267
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1475-6765
pISSN - 0304-4130
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-6765.1977.tb01218.x
Subject(s) - politics , presidential system , political economy , period (music) , population , political science , function (biology) , sociology , demography , law , biology , physics , evolutionary biology , acoustics
The signs of political generations in France that can be traced in the Presidential election of 1974 – in particular the generations of May 1968 and of the Algerian war – enable us to outline a few hypotheses: the age at which a generation comes into being is a function of the major events that occur and of their repercussions; generations may come into being over a very precise, very short period linked to a crisis in the political system. They will usually by and large concern a particular political and social group rather than the entire population.