Persistence in regional voting patterns in Turkey during a period of major political realignment

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dc.contributor.authorBaşlevent, Cem
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-17T06:29:21Z
dc.date.available2021-06-17T06:29:21Z
dc.date.issued2011-04
dc.description.abstractUsing province-level data from five nationwide elections held during the past decade, we examine the main voting patterns in Turkey. By means of cluster analysis, we classify the 81 provinces according to vote shares of the major parties and independent candidates, and repeat this exercise for each election held between 1999 and 2009. We find that three-way and five-way partitions of the country adequately capture the main political cleavages in Turkey. Although the conservative right-wing parties receive a plurality of votes in all regions of the three-way partition, they receive significant challenge from left-wing and Turkish nationalist parties in the west and from the Kurdish nationalist parties in the east. In addition to these patterns, the five-way partition brings out shifts in the relative strength of the parties within each main division. Our results also show that, despite the major political realignment that occurred during the period under examination, the groupings of provinces remain mainly unchanged. Therefore, we construct 'composite clusters' by classifying provinces in the group in which they appear the majority of the time. The distinct socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of the composite clusters suggest that differences in social and economic structures lie at the root of differing regional political tendencies and their persistence. © The Author(s) 2011.en_US
dc.fullTextLevelFull Texten_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0969776411399342en_US
dc.identifier.issn1461-7145
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-79956127325en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/3806
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/0969776411399342
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000290561900005en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.issue2en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.nationalInternationalen_US
dc.numberofauthors2en_US
dc.pages184 - 202en_US
dc.relation.ispartofEuropean Urban and Regional Studiesen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.subjectcluster analysisen_US
dc.subjectelectionen_US
dc.subjectelectoral geographyen_US
dc.subjectparty politicsen_US
dc.subjectpolitical geographyen_US
dc.subjectpolitical relationsen_US
dc.subjectvoting behavioren_US
dc.titlePersistence in regional voting patterns in Turkey during a period of major political realignmenten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.volume18en_US

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