Turkey's Democratization Process

ISBN-13: 9780415836968 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 444 str.

Carmen Rodriguez; Antonio Avalos; Hakan Yilmaz

Opis

This book examines the development of democracy in Turkey over recent years and charts the institutional, social, and economic components to this process.

Spis treści

Introduction 1 Democratization processes in defective democracies: the case of Turkey 2 The Formation of Citizenship in Turkey 3 Two Steps Forward One Step Back: Turkey's Democratic Transformation 4 The International Context of Democratic Reform in Turkey Part I:Political Society 5 Party System and Democratic Consolidation in Turkey: Problems and Prospects 6What did They Promise for Democracy and What Did They Deliver? Part II:Civil Society 7 Democratic Consolidation and Civil Society in Turkey 8 Democratization in Turkey from a Gender Perspective 9 The Istanbul Art Scene – A Social System? Part III: Economic Arena 10 Deepening Neo-liberalisation and the Changing Welfare Regime in Turkey: Mutations of a Populist “Sub-Optimal” Democracy Part IV: State Apparatus 11 New Public Administration in Turkey 12 Determinants of Tax Evasion by Households: Evidence from Turkey 13 From Tutelary Powers & Interventions to Civilian Control: an Overview of Turkish Civil-Military Relations since the 1920s 14 The Judiciary Part V: Rule of Law 15 Democracy, Tutelarism and the Search for a New Constitution 16 Human Rights in Turkey 17 The Paradox of Equality: Subjective Attitudes Towards basic Rights in Turkey 18 The Kurdish Question: Law, Politics and the Limits of Recognition 19 Non- Muslim Minorities in the Democratization Process of Turkey 20 Democratization in Turkey? Insights from the Alevi Issue 21The Political Economy of the media and its impact on the freedom of expression in Turkey Conclusion Some Observations on Turkey's Democratization Process