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Turkey’s Political Leaders : Authoritarian Tendencies in a Democratic State / Tezcan Gümüş.

By: Gümüş, Tezcan [author.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Edinburgh Studies on Modern Turkey : ESMTPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) : 6 B/W illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781399500104Subject(s): Democracy -- Turkey -- History | Political leadership -- Turkey | Islamic Studies | HISTORY / Modern / 20th CenturyAdditional physical formats: No titleDDC classification: 320.9561 LOC classification: DR576 | .G86 2023
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Turkish Pronunciation, Style and Spelling -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 1950–60: Democracy under the Democrats, a New Game Built on Past Rules -- 2 1961–71: The Rise of Süleyman Demirel -- 3 1971–80: Years of Strife – The Battle between Süleyman Demirel and Bülent Ecevit -- 4 1983–93: Turgut Özal and the Penchant for One-man Rule -- 5 1993–2002: The 1990s and the Crises of Democracy -- 6 2002–15: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and a Democracy Dismantled -- 7 2015–21: President Erdoğan and the Institutionalisation of Single-man Rule -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- References -- Index
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Turkish Pronunciation, Style and Spelling -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 1950–60: Democracy under the Democrats, a New Game Built on Past Rules -- 2 1961–71: The Rise of Süleyman Demirel -- 3 1971–80: Years of Strife – The Battle between Süleyman Demirel and Bülent Ecevit -- 4 1983–93: Turgut Özal and the Penchant for One-man Rule -- 5 1993–2002: The 1990s and the Crises of Democracy -- 6 2002–15: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and a Democracy Dismantled -- 7 2015–21: President Erdoğan and the Institutionalisation of Single-man Rule -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- References -- Index

Investigates how leaders in Turkey’s political sphere have hindered democratic consolidationExplores political leaders and their impact on democracyReveals a salient pattern of authoritarianism and undemocratic behaviour amongst political leaders to account for Turkey’s inability to consolidate democracy in its multi-party historyIncorporates a study of both intra-party rule and leadership in the broader political context to offer a fuller understanding of the forces that have shaped political developments in the countryUses interviews and Turkish and English sources to build an empirically rich documentation of Turkey’s multi-party historyOffers scholars of democracy and democratisation lessons into the role elites play in democractic breakdownsThis longitudinal study reveals how the conduct of political leaders has been central to the shortcomings of the Turkey’s democratic system. The most prominent political leaders, from the birth of the Republic until today, have all displayed a desire to sustain their rule through authoritarian and undemocratic measures. This has ensured efforts to improve, strengthen and respect democratic institutions and practices have been weak or non-existent across the multi-party era. In turn, the chapters identify how the leaders’ values, beliefs and practices underwritten by authoritarianism, have resulted in the tenuous existence of democracy, oscillating between simply enduring and failure during the periods they occupied the seats of political power. By looking at the Turkish experience, the book also offers comparative lessons and insights into the role political leaders play in the survival or failure of democracy.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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