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Ethnicity and Party Politics in Turkey The Rise of the Kurdish Party during the Kurdish Opening Process
Introduction 1. Investigating a New Democracy – Turkey: Dynamic party competition, the Turkish political system, and the Kurdish opening process 2. Data and Methodology: How to apply explaining-outcome process-tracing to the Kurdish opening process in 2009-2011 in Turkey? 3. Predicting Party Behavior with the Help of the Party System Institutionalization Level and Party System Type 4. Why Did the AKP Enter the Ethnic Issue Dimension When Initiating Kurdish Opening Process? 5. Ethnicity and Party Competition: Position, saliency, and ownership theory 6. Ethnicity and Party Competition: Riker’s heresthetics and political parties’ rhetoric on the Kurdish opening process 7. An Explaining-Outcome Process-Tracing Account Conclusions and directions for further research
Biography
Berna Öney is a postdoctoral researcher at the Social Sciences Institute at University of Oldenburg, where she also received a PhD degree. Her research interests include democratization, party politics in new democracies, and ethnic politics. Her publications appeared in Turkish Studies, Ethnicities, and Mediterranean Quarterly.
