Ethnicity and Party Politics in Turkey: The Rise of the Kurdish Party during the Kurdish Opening Process

ISBN-13: 9780367785536 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 170 str.

Berna Öney

Opis

Delving into Turkey’s political playing field, this book examines how an ethnic party increased its vote shares. The case study looks at the rise of the Kurdish party in Turkey’s 2011 national elections, in relation to the mainstream political parties‘ strategies.

 

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.