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Comparaison des élections présidentielles de 2012 en France et aux Etats-unis par Manu Wallerstein.
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However, if Melenchon gets a large vote and Hollande is nonetheless in the second round, two things will be true. One, there will have been a clear message to the Socialists that politically they must move left. And secondly, most Melenchon voters will vote for Hollande on the second round. On the right, however, most LePen voters will be reluctant to vote Sarkozy, and the Front National will not recommend this. Were they to do so, they would undermine the very basis for their existence.

The French system seems to work better for the radical left. The U.S. system seems to work better for the far right. But this is primarily because of different electoral rules.

Les théories du système-monde : le rôle des Etats dans la mondialisation et la nature des catégories de classe et de genre. Binghamton University - Fernand Braudel Center : About FBC : Intellectual Report
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We conceive these integrated production processes to be bounded by an interstate system composed of so-called sovereign states. We believe these states are all entities that have been created (or transformed) within the framework of this world-system. But we also believe they are not the only social actors (or groups) thus to have been created (or transformed). Nations, ethnic groups, households, even “civilizations,” are, in their contemporary form and meaning, phenomena emerging out of the ongoing development of the modern world-system, as are the two central divisions of the system, gender and race.