An Exciting and Opportunistic Analysis of Electoral Geography and Sociology by Jérôme Fourquet

I attacked the last Fourquet. As usual, it’s exciting. Electoral geography, electoral sociology, especially when they are treated by an author as gifted and rigorous as Jérôme Fourquet, it is a pleasure which therefore enhances my daily rail journeys along the Doubs.

Opportunistic reading

But this reading, in addition to the enrichment it allows, also provoked fear in me. Precisely that it is too relevant, and particularly among elected officials or those who seek to become elected officials. A fear that at the end of the road, too much Fourquet will kill the Fourquet. Let us be clear, the “opinion” director of the IFOP is doing his job and it is in no way my place to criticize him. In France we have excellent authors, sometimes pollsters, sometimes geographers, sometimes historians, sometimes political scientists, some even combining all these disciplines. I could also cite Jérôme Sainte-Marie and Christophe Guilluy but there are others.

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