Turkey's Difficult Journey to Democracy: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

Basit Öğe Kaydı
dc.authorscopusid7004167148
dc.contributor.authorTuran, I.
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T20:17:00Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T20:17:00Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThe book examines Turkey's early transition to democracy when its history and level of development did not suggest it to be likely. Noting modernization theories assumed socioeconomic development preceded democratization, it asks two questions: whether an underdeveloped society that adopts democratic rule can sustain it while achieving socioeconomic development, and whether democracy deepens and matures with such development. Tracing Turkey's democratization, it argues that satisfactory socioeconomic development has been achieved, but democracy's deepening and maturing has proven difficult. Turkey's modernization has produced a culturally bifurcated society, where democratization has posed challenges to the ability of modernizing elites to dominate society. The "modernizers" have securitized politics, kept the scope of politics narrow, and rendered negotiated settlements difficult. The "traditionalists," on the other hand, have turned to unrestricted majoritarianism to support their political mandate. Economic development has strengthened civil society and the autonomy of the individual, and brought questions of prosperity to the fore, but pathologies remain. Turkey's democratization process has not been linear but cumulatively its democracy has advanced. © I?lter Turan 2015. All rights reserved.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199663989.001.0001
dc.identifier.endpage272en_US
dc.identifier.isbn9780191799341
dc.identifier.isbn9780199663989
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84938500566en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityN/Aen_US
dc.identifier.startpage1en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199663989.001.0001
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/6365
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen_US
dc.relation.ispartofTurkey's Difficult Journey to Democracy: Two Steps Forward, One Step Backen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryKitap - Uluslararasıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectCivil Societyen_US
dc.subjectCultural Bifurcationen_US
dc.subjectDemocracy's Maturingen_US
dc.subjectDemocratic Transitionsen_US
dc.subjectMajoritarianismen_US
dc.subjectSecuritization Of Politicsen_US
dc.subjectSocioeconomic Developmenten_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.titleTurkey's Difficult Journey to Democracy: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
dc.typeBook

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