Following the 2017 presidential election victory of Emmanuel Macron, one of the youngest political leaders in the democratic world, we will undertake a retrospective on this surprising event for France.



What are the political, cultural and social reasons for this unpredictable victory?

What are the constituting elements of "Macronism": a new type of leadership? a new way of governing? a new type of political organization?



What are the elements of continuity and change, as far as the Fifth Republic is concerned, to understand this political novelty?



Required texts:

- Pascal PERRINEAU, Le Vote disruptif, Les élections présidentielle et législatives d'avril-mai-juin 2017, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2017, ISBN-13: 978-2724621655

- Philippe RAYNAUD, Emmanuel Macron, une Révolution bien tempérée, Paris, Desclée de Brouwer, 2018, ISBN-13: 978-2220094274