1st Edition
Continuity and Change in Turkish Politics Economic and Behavioural Explanations of Democratic Backsliding
This book features leading scholars examining the dynamics of Turkish politics through alternative themes, including political economy and behavior. It provides a comprehensive understanding of continuity and change within Turkey’s political system, utilizing rigorous empirical work and data.
This book delves into the complexities of Turkish politics, the political economy of democratic backsliding, economic voting trends, political competition and change, populism, ideology, candidate nomination, and the impact of the international political economy on Turkey. While doing so, it focuses on the 2023 elections in Turkey. The chapters in this edited volume analyze these themes, offering fresh insights into systemic party competition, voting behavior, and the political economy of Turkey. This timely publication promises to be an essential resource for understanding recent shifts in Turkish politics and will benefit students, researchers and scholars interested in Politics, Political Economy, and Turkish Studies.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies.
Introduction: Continuity and change in Turkish politics: economic and behavioral explanations of democratic backsliding
Mustafa Aydin and Kerem Yıldırım
1. Elections and partisanship: analyzing the results of the 2023 general elections in Turkey
Gülnur Kocapınar and Ersin Kalaycıoğlu
2. The 2023 Turkish election: a tale of two campaigns and the duel of populisms
Şebnem Yardımcı-Geyikçi and Hakan Yavuzyilmaz
3. How incumbents create uneven patterns of competition during autocratization: the AKP case of Turkey
Pelin Ayan Musil
4. Right-wing populism in Turkey and the 2023 elections
Ezgi Elçi
5. Difficult choices: choosing the candidate of the nation alliance in the 2023 Turkish presidential election
Lemi Baruh and Ali Çarkoğlu
6. Ideological linkages and party competition in the 2023 Turkish general elections
Kerem Yıldırım
7. Economic voting in the 2023 Turkish general election
Selim Erdem Aytaç
8. Governance crises and resilience of authoritarian populism: 2023 Turkish elections from the perspective of Hirschman’s ‘exit, voice, and loyalty’
Mustafa Kutlay and Ziya Öniş
9. Erosion of economic institutions in the age of democratic backsliding: an analysis of the Turkish case
Işik D. Özel
10. Politics of household indebtedness in Turkey
Berkay Ayhan, Mustafa Aydin and Ahmet Ulcay
Biography
Mustafa Aydın is Professor of International Relations at Kadir Has University (Istanbul), the President of the International Relations Council of Turkey, and the Coordinator of the Global Academy. He is a member of the European Leadership Network, the Greek Turkish Forum, and the European Academy of Art and Sciences. His areas of interest include international politics, foreign policy analysis, geopolitics of Eurasia, and Turkish politics and foreign policy.
Kerem Yıldırım is Assistant Professor at Bilkent University's Department of Political Science and Public Administration. His research focuses on the effect of various formal and informal institutions and socioeconomic structures on party-voter linkages, political competition, and political behavior.
