
Fragile but Resilient?
Turkish Electoral Dynamics, 2002-2015
The University of Michigan Press
Published on 6. April 2021
Book
Hardback
362 pages
978-0-472-13243-0 (ISBN)
Description
Ersin Kalaycioglu and Ali Carkoglu, who conducted surveys comparable to the American National Election Survey for the 2002 and 2015 national elections in Turkey, chart the dynamics that brought the pro-Islamist conservative Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi-AKP) to power in 2002, and that continue to influence electoral politics. The authors trace the uneven course of democratization in Turkey, as revealed through elections, since the first competitive, multi-party elections in 1950. Since the market liberalization reforms of 1980, Turkey has been rapidly evolving from a closed, agricultural, comparatively underdeveloped polity into an open and industrial state primarily integrated with the global economy. Kalaycioglu and Carkoglu analyze different dimensions of five elections surveys in 2002-2015 period to show how the consequent socio-economic changes and traditional socio-cultural divisions have affected elections, political parties, and individual voters. The authors conclude that the historical-cultural divide between rural, peripheral, conservative groups and more urban, centrist, and modernized groups not only persists but shapes elections more than ever. This book not only provides an original comprehensive and critical evaluation of the Turkish electoral and party politics, it also offers a case study of voting behavior in a state undergoing both democratization and market liberalization in a rapidly changing and volatile international environment.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ann Arbor
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
42 figures, 26 tables
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-472-13243-0 (9780472132430)
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Persons
Ali Carkoglu is Professor of Political Science at Koc UEniversitesi
Ersin Kalaycioglu is Professor of Political Science at Sabanci University
Ersin Kalaycioglu is Professor of Political Science at Sabanci University