Brice Teinturier is Deputy CEO of the Ipsos Institute and teaches at Sciences Po.
THE FIGARO. - The number of members in political parties and activism as such has collapsed in recent years. How do you explain that?
Brice TEINTURIER. - Without going back to the decline of the great party of members that was the Communist Party in the 1950s, at least four phenomena explain the decline in partisan membership. The first is the collapse of belief in the ability of politics to change lives. It intervened in France after the alternation of 1981 and a voluntarist program of rupture with capitalism.
Very quickly, the failure is resounding and leads to the turn of the rigor in 1983. Left and right have therefore failed in the face of the inexorable rise in unemployment, and this is a tragedy. From this moment arises a disillusionment, a doubt that will grow about the real power of political action. But this alternation does not only kill hope: it signs...
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