1st Edition
Turkey's Electoral Geography Trends, Behaviors, and Identities
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction to Turkey’s electoral geography: an overview since 1950
Edip Asaf Bekaroğlu and Gülsen Kaya Osmanbaşoğlu
2. Measuring party nationalization in Turkey: 1950–2018
Özhan Demirkol and& Edip Asaf Bekaroğlu
3. Gerrymandering in Turkish elections since 1950: (re)setting the rules of the game?
Gülsen Kaya Osmanbaşoğlu
4. The dynamics of change and differentiation in voter preferences in the western coastal provinces of Turkey since the 1980s
Tanju Tosun, Betül Aydoğan Ünal, and Gülgün Erdoğan Tosun
5. The regional and national campaign discourse of the PDP and its predecessors in Turkey’s general elections, 2002–2018
Hüseyin Alptekin
6. ‘"Where are they doing politics?"’: women’s cooperatives as sites of constellations of power
Selin Akyüz and Kürşat Çınar
7. Election monitoring organizations in view of electoral geography: regional characteristics of volunteer networks in Turkey
Ayşenur Kılıç
8. Engendering the parliament: a study of women deputies in Turkey, 1935–2018
Mezher Yüksel
9. An analysis of Turkish overseas electoral districts: opportunities and challenges
Necati Anaz and Mehmet Köse
Biography
Edip Asaf Bekaroğlu earned his PhD in political science at Bilkent University, Turkey in 2010. Since then, he has worked as a full time faculty member at İstanbul University’s Department of Political Science and International Relations. His research interests are democratization, political parties and elections, secularism, and multiculturalism.
Gülsen Kaya Osmanbaşoğlu earned her PhD in political science at Bilkent University in 2014. She is a faculty member at the Social Sciences University of Ankara, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, and the deputy director of Social Innovation Center (ASBU11 SIM). Her research interests are Turkish politics, political parties and elections, modernization, human rights, and social innovation.
