1st Edition

Democratic Consolidation in Turkey Micro and macro challenges

Edited By Cengiz Erisen, Paul Kubicek Copyright 2016
236 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

While Turkey has made major strides in democratic reforms in the late 1990s and early 2000s, progress has, in many ways, stalled. Turkey remains "democratic" in the sense that attaining political power depends upon winning votes, but in recent years its leadership has taken a majoritarian view of democracy and the country has faced problems on issues such as rule of law, freedom of speech, and... Read more

1: Conceptualizing Democratic Consolidation in Turkey

Cengiz Erisen and Paul Kubicek

Micro Foundations

2: Religiosity and Political Values in post-2000 Turkey

Birol Yeşilada Birol Yesilada and Peter Noordijk

3: Tolerance and Democratization in Turkey

Cengiz Erisen

4: Turkey’s Judicial Reforms and the Evolution of Public Confidence in Legal System

Yuksel Alper Ecevit Alper Ecevit

5: Media and Democracy in Turkey: An Analysis on the News Media Framing of Gezi Park Protests

Çağkan Sayın and Emre Toros 

Macro Foundations

6: Majoritarian Democracy in Turkey: Causes and Consequences

Paul Kubicek 

7: Problems of Rule of Law and Horizontal Accountability in Turkey: Defective Democracy or Competitive Authoritarianism?

Ergun Özbudun 

8: Opposition Parties and Democratic Consolidation in Turkey

Sabri Sayarı 

9: The Political Economy of Turkish Democracy

Ali Burak Güven 

10: Conclusion: Turkish Democracy in 2015 and Beyond

Paul Kubicek and Cengiz Erisen

Biography

Cengiz Erisen is Associate Professor of Political Science at TOBB University of Economics and Technology. He has published work on comparative political behavior, political psychology, and Turkish politics.

Paul Kubicek is Professor of Political Science and Director of International Studies at Oakland University. He has written extensively on democratization in Eurasia and in Turkey, and is the editor of Turkish Studies.