This book aims at exploring the logic of political survival in Turkish politics studying the case of the AKP and using evidence from elite interviews, party doc

This book examines the determinants and consequences of policy responsiveness and change, and how policy issues get onto the media and legislative agenda in a t

The study of politics in Turkey : new horizons and perennial pitfalls / Güneş Murat Tezcür -- Democratization theories and Turkey / Ekrem Karakoç -- Ruling

Presents an account of the rise of Erdogan's AKP, showing how the politicisation of religion has roots in the period of early nation-building in Turkey.

Since the end of the 1980 coup d’état Turkey has been in the midst of a complex process of democratization. Applying methodological pluralism in order to pro