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List of contents
Introduction: Turkey’s Exit from Democracy Kerem Öktem, Karabekir Akkoyunlu Making Sense of Turkey’s Transition 1. Understanding Turkey’s democratic breakdown: old vs. new and indigenous vs. global authoritarianism Murat Somer 2. Existential insecurity and the making of a weak authoritarian regime in Turkey
Karabekir Akkoyunlu, Kerem Öktem Illiberal governance in comparative perspective 3. Decoding the authoritarian code: exercising ‘legitimate’ power politics through ruling parties in Turkey, Macedonia and Serbia Cengiz Günay and Vedran Dzihic 4. Examining state capacity in the context of electoral authoritarianism, regime formation and consolidation in Russia and Turkey David White and Marc Herzog 5. Strong presidents and weak institutions: populism in Turkey, Venezuela and Ecuador Orçun Selçuk Hegemonic struggles: Manufacturing consent and discontent 6. Populism as the problem child of democracy: the AKP’s enduring appeal and the use of meso-level actors Bilge Yabanci 7. Turkey’s Diyanet under AKP rule: from protector to imposer of state ideology?
Ahmet Erdi Öztürk 8. Creating a pious generation: youth and education policies of the AKP in Turkey Demet Lüküslü 9. Conflict and reconciliation between Turks and Kurds: the HDP as an agonistic actor Ömer Tekdemir 10. The ambiguities of democratic autonomy: the Kurdish movement in Turkey and Rojava Michiel Leezenberg
About the author
Kerem Öktem is Professor of Southeast European Studies and Modern Turkey at the Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz.
Karabekir Akkoyunlu is Assistant Professor of Modern Turkey at the Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz.
Summary
This book explores how Turkey exemplifies the larger global forces of democratic decline and authoritarian politics. It was originally published in Southeast European and Black Sea Studies.
