The Akp Since Gezi Park: Moving to Regime Change in Turkey

ISBN-13: 9781032091198 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 236 str.

Susannah Verney; Anna Bosco; Senem Aydın-D?zgit

Opis

This volume about Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) focuses on the later years of its rule, culminating in the 2017 referendum on the move to a presidential system. Chapters 2-11 previously published as articles (Vol 19: issue 2 to Vol 22: issue 3) in South European Society and Politics.

Spis treści

1. Introduction – The AKP on the Road to Presidentialism  Changing the System  2. AKP at the Crossroads: Erdoğan’s Majoritarian Drift  3. Islamisation of Turkey under the AKP Rule: Empowering Family, Faith and Charity   4. An Unfinished Grassroots Populism: The Gezi Park Protests in Turkey and their Aftermath  5. Emergence of a Dominant Party System after Multipartyism: Theoretical Implications from the Case of the AKP in Turkey  Maintaining Electoral Predominance  6. Plus Ça Change Plus C’est le Même Chose: Consolidation of the AKP’s Predominance in the March 2014 Local Elections in Turkey  7. Turkish Popular Presidential Elections: Deepening Legitimacy Issues and Looming Regime Change  8. Winds of Change? The June 2015 Parliamentary Elections in Turkey  9. Back to a Predominant Party System: The November 2015 Snap Election in Turkey  Moving to Presidentialism  10. Taking Sides: Determinants of Support for a Presidential System in Turkey  11. A Small Yes for Presidentialism: The Turkish Constitutional Referendum of April 2017

O autorze

Susannah Verney is Associate Professor of European Integration and European Politics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, and co-Editor of South European Society and Politics.

Anna Bosco is Associate Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Florence, Italy, and co-Editor of South European Society and Politics.

Senem Aydın-Düzgit is Associate Professor of International Relations at Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey, and Associate Editor of South European Society and Politics.