The Oxford Handbook of Turkish Politics

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Turkey is a country with a history of multiparty electoral competition going back to 1950, longer than many other nations in the world. Until recently, it was often perceived as a model country that showed the feasibility of democratic governance in a Muslim-majority society. However, the rise of religious-nationalist populism and sociopolitical polarization has resulted in an authoritarian turn that has stifled political liberalization. Turkish foreign policy has had strong linkages with the West, but now exhibits a more independent and assertive position. Turkish national identity remains exclusionary, as citizens not belonging to the dominant ethnic and religious groups face various levels of discrimination. Political violence persists in the forms of state repression, insurgent attacks, and terrorism; nevertheless, Turkish civil society continues to be resilient. The economy has exhibited sustained levels of growth, though it remains vulnerable to crises. The Oxford Handbook of Turkish Politics includes in-depth analyses of all these issues in conversation with the broader scholarly literature on authoritarianism and democratization, political economy, electoral politics, politics of identity, social movements, foreign policy, and the politics of art. With contributions by leading experts, the Handbook is an authoritative source offering state-of-the-art reviews of the scholarship on Turkish politics. The volume is an analytical, comprehensive, and comparative overview of contemporary politics in a country that literally and figuratively epitomizes "being at the crossroads." Dedication Contents About the Editor Contributors Acknowledgments Foreword • Daron Acemoğlu 1. The Study of Politics in Turkey: New Horizons and Perennial Pitfalls • Güneş Murat Tezcür PART I: POLITICAL REGIME 2. Democratization Theories and Turkey • Ekrem Karakoç 3. Ruling Ideologies in Modern Turkey • Kerem Öktem 4. Constitutionalism in Turkey • Aslı Ü. Bâlİ 5. Civil– Military Relations and the Demise of Turkish Democracy • Nİl S. Satana and Burak Bİlgehan Özpek 6. Capturing Secularism in Turkey: The Ease of Comparison • Murat Akan PART II: POLITICAL ECONOMY 7. The Political Economy of Turkey since the End of World War II • Şevket Pamuk 8. Neoliberal Politics in Turkey • Sinan Erensü and Yahya M. Madra 9. The Politics of Welfare in Turkey • Erdem Yörük 10. The Political Economy of Environmental Policymaking in Turkey: A Vicious Cycle • Fİkret Adaman, Bengİ Akbulut, and Murat Arsel 11. The Politics of Energy in Turkey: Running Engines on Geopolitical, Discursive, and Coercive Power • Begüm Özkaynak, Ethemcan Turhan, and Cem İskender Aydın 12. The Contemporary Politics of Health in Turkey: Diverse Actors, Competing Frames, and Uneven Policies • Volkan Yılmaz PART III: LEADERS, PARTIES, AND VOTERS 13. Populism in Turkey: Historical and Contemporary Patterns • Yüksel Taşkın 14. Old and New Polarizations and Failed Democratizations in Turkey • Murat Somer 15. Economic Voting during the AKP Era in Turkey • S. Erdem Aytaç 16. Party Organizations in Turkey and Their Consequences for Democracy • Melis G. Laebens 17. The Evolution of Conventional Political Participation in Turkey • Ersin Kalaycıoğlu PART IV: POLITICS OF IDENTITY 18. Symbolic Politics and Contention in the Turkish Republic • Senem Aslan 19. Islamist Activism in Turkey • Menderes Çınar 20. The Kurdish Movement in Turkey: Understanding Everyday Perceptions and Experiences • Dilan Okcuoglu 21. The Transnational Mobilization of the Alevis of Turkey: From Invisibility to the Struggle for Equality • Ceren Lord 22. Politics of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Turkey: Limits and Prospects of Populism • Fatih Resul Kılınç and Şule Toktaş PART V: TURKEY AND THE WORLD 23. A Theoretical Account of Turkish Foreign Policy under the AKP • Tarık Oğuzlu 24. US– Turkey Relations since World War II: From Alliance to Transactionalism • Serhat Güvenç and Solİ Özel 25. Turkey and Europe: Historical Asynchronicities and Perceptual Asymmetries • Hakan Yılmaz 26. Turkey’s Foreign Policy in the Middle East: An Identity Perspective • Lisel Hintz 27. Turkey and Russia: Historical Patterns and Contemporary Trends in Bilateral Relations • Evren Balta and Mİtat Çelİkpala PART VI: CIVIL SOCIETY AND ACTIVISM 28. Citizenship and Protest Behavior in Turkey • Ayhan Kaya 29. Gender Politics and the Struggle for Equality in Turkey • Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat 30. Human Rights Organizations in Turkey • Başak Çalı 31. Truth, Justice, and Commemoration Initiatives in Turkey • Onur Bakiner 32. The Politics of Media in Turkey: Chronicle of a Stillborn Media System • Sarphan Uzunoğlu PART VII: POLITICS OF ART 33. The AKP’s Rhetoric of Rule in Turkey: Political Melodramas of Conspiracy from “Ergenekon” to “Mastermind” • Erdağ Göknar 34. The Transformation of Political Cinema in Turkey since the 1960s: A Change of Discourse • Zeynep Çetİn- Erus and M. Elİf Demoğlu 35. Political Music in Turkey: The Birth and Diversification of Dissident and Conformist Music (1920– 2000) • Mustafa Avcı Index