The Oxford Handbook of Turkish Politics

858 Pages·2022·9.137 MB·English

by  Günes Murat Tezcür (editor)

The Oxford Handbook of
T U R K I S H
P O L I T I C S

The Oxford Handbook of
TURKISH
POLITICS
Edited by
GÜNEŞ MURAT TEZCÜR
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Contents
About the Editor xi
Contributors xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Foreword xvii
Daron Acemoğlu
1. The Study of Politics in Turkey: New Horizons and Perennial Pitfalls 1
Güneş Murat Tezcür
PART I: POLITICAL REGIME
2. Democratization Theories and Turkey 29
Ekrem Karakoç
3. Ruling Ideologies in Modern Turkey 53
Kerem Öktem
4. Constitutionalism in Turkey 75
Aslı Ü. Bâlİ
5. Civil– Military Relations and the Demise of Turkish Democracy 97
Nİl S. Satana and Burak Bİlgehan Özpek
6. Capturing Secularism in Turkey: The Ease of Comparison 117
Murat Akan
PART II: POLITICAL ECONOMY
7. The Political Economy of Turkey since the End of World War II 141
Şevket Pamuk
8. Neoliberal Politics in Turkey 159
Sinan Erensü and Yahya M. Madra
viii Contents
9. The Politics of Welfare in Turkey 187
Erdem Yörük
10. The Political Economy of Environmental Policymaking in Turkey:
A Vicious Cycle 205
Fİkret Adaman, Bengİ Akbulut, and Murat Arsel
11. The Politics of Energy in Turkey: Running Engines on Geopolitical,
Discursive, and Coercive Power 225

Begüm Özkaynak, Ethemcan Turhan, and Cem İskender Aydın

12. The Contemporary Politics of Health in Turkey: Diverse Actors,
Competing Frames, and Uneven Policies 249
Volkan Yılmaz

PART III: LEADERS, PARTIES, AND VOTERS
13. Populism in Turkey: Historical and Contemporary Patterns 275
Yüksel Taşkın
14. Old and New Polarizations and Failed Democratizations in Turkey 295
Murat Somer
15. Economic Voting during the AKP Era in Turkey 319
S. Erdem Aytaç
16. Party Organizations in Turkey and Their Consequences for
Democracy 341
Melis G. Laebens

17. The Evolution of Conventional Political Participation in Turkey 363

Ersin Kalaycıoğlu
PART IV: POLITICS OF IDENTITY
18. Symbolic Politics and Contention in the Turkish Republic 387
Senem Aslan
19. Islamist Activism in Turkey 407
Menderes Çınar
20. The Kurdish Movement in Turkey: Understanding Everyday
Perceptions and Experiences 431
Dilan Okcuoglu
Contents ix
21. The Transnational Mobilization of the Alevis of Turkey: From
Invisibility to the Struggle for Equality 455
Ceren Lord
22. Politics of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Turkey: Limits and
Prospects of Populism 481
Fatih Resul Kılınç and Şule Toktaş
PART V: TURKEY AND THE WORLD
23. A Theoretical Account of Turkish Foreign Policy under the AKP 503
Tarık Oğuzlu
24. US– Turkey Relations since World War II: From Alliance to
Transactionalism 523
Serhat Güvenç and Solİ Özel
25. Turkey and Europe: Historical Asynchronicities and Perceptual
Asymmetries 545
Hakan Yılmaz
26. Turkey’s Foreign Policy in the Middle East: An Identity Perspective 563
Lisel Hintz
27. Turkey and Russia: Historical Patterns and Contemporary Trends in
Bilateral Relations 585
Evren Balta and Mİtat Çelİkpala
PART VI: CIVIL SOCIETY AND ACTIVISM
28. Citizenship and Protest Behavior in Turkey 607
Ayhan Kaya
29. Gender Politics and the Struggle for Equality in Turkey 627
Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat
30. Human Rights Organizations in Turkey 649
Başak Çalı
31. Truth, Justice, and Commemoration Initiatives in Turkey 669
Onur Bakiner
32. The Politics of Media in Turkey: Chronicle of a Stillborn Media System 689
Sarphan Uzunoğlu