Guillaume Bernard: the Social and Territorial Divisions of Voting

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What are the explanatory or even predictive factors of voting? Political science has identified a range of variables: biological, economic or social. It turns out that age, gender or degree level alone do not determine a right-wing or left-wing vote. On the other hand, they influence the degree of moderation or radicality of political choice. Thus, the ageing of the person is more likely to be towards cautious preferences; similarly, the high de…