Fragile but resilient : Turkish electoral dynamics, 2002-2015 / Ali Çarkoğlu and Ersin Kalaycıoğlu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carkoglu, Ali.

Contributor:

Kalaycioglu, Ersin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Elections--Turkey.

Elections.

Political parties--Turkey--History--21st century.

Political parties.

Turkey--Politics and government--21st century.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (363 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2021.

Summary:

Ersin Kalaycıoğlu and Ali Çarkoğlu, who conducted surveys comparable to the American National Election Survey for the 2002 and 2007 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, industrial state linked to the global economy. Kalaycıoğlu and Çarkoğlu analyze the geographic and socio-economic dimensions of the 2002 and 2007 election data 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 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.

Contents:

Introduction: The state, the party system and the citizens

"Center-periphery" versus the Kulturkampf?

Social cleavages and economic transformation in Turkey

Center-periphery within the electorate

The Turkish electorate and the economy : bringing the AKP to power

Party choice during the AKP era, 2002-2015

Ethnicity and religion in Turkish voting behavior

Riding the electoral roller coaster : party choice in Turkey, 2002-2015

Sliding out of democratization

The end of center-periphery political confrontation : the establishment and prospects of a hegemonic one-party system in Turkey.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-344) and index.

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ISBN:

9780472128679

0472128671

OCLC:

1226084638