The Justice and Development Party in Turkey: Populism, Personalism, Organization

ISBN-13: 9781108461658 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 336 str.

Toygar Sinan Baykan

Opis

A fieldwork-based account of the role of populism, personalism and organisation in the rise of Erdoğan's JDP to authoritarian predominance.

Recenzje

'Baykan's Justice and Development Party in Turkey is fascinating and shrewd. It provides an incisive, comprehensive, and convincing analysis of the rise of the party and, more importantly, its leader Erdogan to the extremely powerful executive position in Turkish politics. His work is original, unfailingly eloquent, instructive, timely and inspiring. In a time when we have been observing the rise of competitive authoritarianism and democratic backsliding on a global scale, Baykan's work will exert great influence for the academic and policy-oriented studies and discussions, not only in the Turkish context but also in the fields of Political Science, Comparative Politics and Political Theory. It is a must-read.' Fuat Keyman, Sabancı University

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: agency matters; 2. The transformation of the Turkish party system: selective pluralism and the rise of the JDP; 3. The high-low divide in Turkish politics and the populist appeal of the JDP; 4. The JDP and Erdoğan: non-charismatic personalism; 5. The JDP strategies: moving beyond the basics of Turkish party politics; 6. The JDP organization: a personalistic mass party; 7. Elite recruitment in the JDP: 'you do not want these kinds of people in the parliament'; 8. 'The new regime': the role of agency in the rise of competitive authoritarianism in Turkey; 9. Conclusions: findings, implications, future research; Appendix 1. Brief information on the political parties in Turkey; Appendix 2. The high-low (or anti-populism/populism) and left-right divides in Turkey.