Embattled Ballots, Quiet Streets: Competitive Authoritarianism and Dampening Anti-Government Protests in Turkey

Kahvecioğlu, Anıl; Patan, Semih

doi:10.1080/13608746.2022.2101622

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“…Secondly, political parties prefer civic opposition groups that employ a moderate approach, combining on-and off-street mediums to mobilize. Overreliance on a single type of mobilization, particularly disruptive on-street action, is difficult to reconcile with opposition parties' 'ballot-centred approach' (Kahvecioğlu and Patan 2021). Opposition parties would not desire to promote the perception that on-street means are more effective than formal politics in responding to autocratization.…”

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confidence: 99%

Civic Opposition and Democratic Backsliding: Mobilization Dynamics and Rapport with Political Parties

Yabanci

2024

Gov. & oppos.

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Democratic backsliding has posed significant challenges to democracies in many countries. Recent calls for a better theorization of pushback against backsliding have triggered renewed scholarly interest in the field of opposition and its role in stopping or reversing creeping authoritarian rule. This study calls for a theoretical and empirical recalibration of the concept of opposition to account for multifaceted ‘non-partisan’ actors and venues of oppositional mobilization. It proposes a new classification of resilient civic opposition. The explanatory typology is based on two factors: (1) the ability of civic opposition to bring multiple grievances together and to balance between on-street and off-street mediums, and (2) the rapport between political opposition parties and civic opposition. Four cases of civic opposition from Hungary and Turkey illustrate the proposed typology empirically.

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Section: Rapport With Political Opposition Partiesmentioning

confidence: 99%