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Turkish Democracy Today : Elections, Protest and Stability in an Islamic Society
Bok av Kalaycioglu Ersin Kalaycioglu
The experience of democracy in Turkey since its introduction in 1950 has been bloody, chequered but persistent. In between fourteen fiercely-fought and often violent general elections there have been three military interventions. The complex ethnic, cultural and economic stratification of Turkish society, together with its unique geopolitical status, straddling Eastern and Western zones of influence, in part accounts for the turbulence of Turkey's democratic experience. But as this important new work argues, Turkish democracy has for too long been treated as a sui generis case, and been cut off from theoretical developments in psephology and comparative sociology. The authors seek to redress this, combining cutting-edge theory with in-depth empricial research to address the key issues in contemporary Turkish politics: the rise of democratic Islamist parties, and the implications of their ascendancy for political stability and democratic governance. They offers important conclusions on voter decision-making in Turkey, and provide a rigorous theoretical framework for identifying trends and anticipating future developments.