Turkey's Democratization Process

Herausgeber: Rodriguez, Carmen; Planet, Ana; Yilmaz, Hakan; Avalos, Antonio

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Since the end of the 1980 coup d'état Turkey has been in the midst of a complex process of democratization. Applying methodological pluralism in order to provide a comprehensive analysis of this process in a Turkish context, this book brings together contributions from prominent, Turkish, English, French, and Spanish scholars. Turkey's Democratization Process utilises the theoretical framework of J.J. Linz and A.C. Stepan in order to assess the complex process of democratization in Turkey. This framework takes into account five interacting features of Turkey's polity when making this assessment, namely: whether the underlying legal and socioeconomic conditions are conducive for the development of a free and participant society; if a relatively autonomous political society exists; whether there are legal guarantees for citizens' freedoms; if there exists a state bureaucracy which can be used by a democratic government; and whether the type and pace of Turkish economic development contributes to this process. Examining the Turkish case in light of this framework, this book seeks to combine analyses that will help assess the process of democratization in Turkey to date and will be of interest to scholars and researchers interested in Turkish Politics, Democratization and Middle Eastern Studies more broadly.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 444
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 172mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 795g
• ISBN-13: 9780415836968
• ISBN-10: 0415836964
• Artikelnr.: 36897793

Autorenporträt

Carmen Rodríguez is a researcher of Contemporary Turkish Studies at Election Watch OPEMAM at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Her research interests include; democratization, political parties and Turkey-EU relations. Antonio Ávalos is a researcher at TEIM (International Mediterranean Studies Team) at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, focusing on the political and military elite and secularism in Turkey. Hakan Yilmaz is a Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Böaziçi University, Istanbul. His research interests include political ideologies and political culture in post-World War II Turkey; culture and identity dimensions of EU-Turkey relations; and external-internal linkages in the process of democratization. Ana I. Planet is a Professor at the Arab and Islamic Studies Department at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and director of TEIM (International Mediterranean Studies Team). Her research interests include Moroccan migration to Spain and political debates regarding Islam in Europe.

Inhaltsangabe

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