Fragile but Resilient?: Turkish Electoral Dynamics, 2002-2015

Fragile but Resilient?: Turkish Electoral Dynamics, 2002-2015

Fragile but Resilient?: Turkish Electoral Dynamics, 2002-2015

Fragile but Resilient?: Turkish Electoral Dynamics, 2002-2015

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Overview

Ersin Kalaycıoğlu and Ali Çarkoğlu, 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 Kalkınma 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. Kalaycıoğlu and Çarkoğlu 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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780472128679
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 04/06/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 360
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Ali Çarkoğlu is Professor of Political Science at Koç Üniversitesi

Ersin Kalaycıoğlu is Professor of Political Science at Sabancı University

Table of Contents

Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The State, the Party System, and the Citizens Part 1. Historical Context and Theory One. “Center-Periphery” versus the Kulturkampf? Two. Social Cleavages and Economic Transformation in Turkey Three. Center-Periphery within the Electorate Part 2. Economy, Religion, Ethnicity, and Party Choice, 2002–2015 Four. The Turkish Electorate and the Economy: Bringing the AKP to Power Five. Party Choice during the AKP Era, 2002–2015 Six. Ethnicity and Religion in Turkish Voting Behavior Seven. Riding the Electoral Roller Coaster: Party Choice in Turkey, 2002–2015 Part 3. Conclusion Eight. Sliding Out of Democratization Nine. The End of Center-Periphery Political Confrontation: The Establishment and Prospects of a Hegemonic One-Party System in Turkey Appendix A: Turkish Election Studies, 2002–2015 Appendix B: Question Wording about Economic Evaluations Notes References Index

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Portland State University Birol Yesilada

"This book is a must-read for understanding the challenges facing democracy in Turkey. It is rich in empirical analysis of causal factors behind voter alignment, party strategies and tactics, and election outcomes with a focus on how the AKP rule affected democratic development. It is a welcome contribution to the discipline."
—Birol Yesilada, Portland State University
 

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