1st Edition
Ethnicity and Elections in Turkey Party Politics and the Mobilization of Swing Voters
By Gul Akdag
Copyright 2015
282 Pages
by
Routledge
282 Pages
by
Routledge
282 Pages
by
Routledge
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Ethnicity and Elections in Turkey attempts to understand the mobilization strategies of incumbent parties to consolidate and increase their support among swing voters of an ethnic group. By analyzing the strategy of AKP on voters of Kurdish origin, it investigates the conditions under which it can mobilize them through the clientelistic network and its effectiveness in increasing support for the... Read more
1 Identifying the Nature of the Competition in Electoral Term 2 Theory: Evaluating AKP’s Electoral Support Among Citizens of Kurdish Origin 3 Research Design and Selection of the Cases 4 The Main District Level Organs Responsible of the Mobilization of the Voters 5 Defining the Mobilization Strategy at the District Level 6 The Neighborhood Organization and the Effective Mobilization of Non-Kurdish and Kurdish Voters 7 Divergence in the Effectiveness of the Mobilization Strategies 8 Explaining Divergence in the Strength of the Party Organisation and Incorporation of Co-Ethnic
Biography
Gül Arıkan Akdağ holds a PHD from Sabancı University and is an Assistant Professor at the French Department of Political Science and International Relations at Yeditepe University. Her research interests include; Political Parties, Political Mobilization, Voting behaviour, Turkish Political Life, Electoral Competition, Ethnic Politics, Party/voter linkages, and Clientelism.
