Elections and Public Opinion in Turkey

ISBN-13: 9780367762353 / Miękka / 2023 / 228 str.

Opis

The volume sheds light on the backsliding process of Turkish democratization from the 2010s until 2018, the book analyses data collected through a nationally representative survey of Turkish voters during the 2018 elections and data available by the Supreme Election Board (YSK) in a pre-and post-election panel design.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.