1st Edition
Elections and Public Opinion in Turkey Through the Prism of the 2018 Elections
1. Introduction
Ali Çarkoğlu and Ersin Kalaycıoğlu
2. A New National Legislative Election System? An Assessment of the Breakdown of Consensus on the Administration of Elections
Ersin Kalaycıoğlu
3. Politics as (Un)Usual? An Overview of the June 2018 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections in Turkey
Mert Moral
4. The Story of Electoral Alliances
Mert Moral
5. A Text-as-Data Study of Political Communication in the 2018 Turkish Elections
Ali Çarkoğlu and Fatih Erol
6. Consequences of Popular Perceptions of Electoral Integrity: The Experience of Turkey, 2007-2018
Ali Çarkoğlu
7. The Economic Vote in the 2018 Turkish General Election
Selim Erdem Aytaç
8. Kulturkampf and Voting Behavior in Turkey: A Key to Turkish Party Politics?
Ersin Kalaycıoğlu
9. Voter Mobilization in the 2018 Turkish General Election
Selim Erdem Aytaç and Özge Kemahlıoğlu
10. Party Identification and Vote Choice in Turkey
Ersin Kalaycıoğlu
11. Public Opinion, and Foreign Affairs in the National Elections of June 24, 2018 in Turkey
Ersin Kalaycıoğlu
12. Conclusion
Ali Çarkoğlu and Ersin Kalaycıoğlu
Biography
Ali Çarkoğlu is a professor of political science at Koç University, İstanbul. He received his Ph.D. at the State University of New York-Binghamton in 1994. His areas of research interest include voting behaviour, elections, public opinion and party politics in Turkey. He co-authored/edited 12 volumes and 62 articles, including The Rising Tide of Conservatism in Turkey (2009) and Fragile bur Resilient? Turkish Electoral Dynamics, 2002–2015 (2021) (both co-authored with E. Kalaycıoğlu).
Ersin Kalaycıoğlu is a Political Scientist at Sabancı University, Istanbul. He specializes in political representation and participation, in which he published internationally. His main publications include Turkish Dynamics (2005), The Rising Tide of Conservatism in Turkey (2009), and Fragile bur Resilient? Turkish Electoral Dynamics, 2002–2015 (2021) (both co-authored with A. Çarkoğlu) as well as 13 other books and 95 articles.






