Do Citizens Lead or do They Follow a Candidate Who has no Party? Assessing the Relationship Between Policy Preferences and Vote Choice in the 2017 French Election

• In Event: Voting behavior in Europe

Brief Overview

Using French National Election Study data from 2017, we test the influence of issue preferences on vote choice as well as the influence of vote choice on issue preferences.

Authors

• Eric Guntermann, University of California, Berkeley

• Romain Lachat, Sciences Po