Islamists and the politics of democratization: evidence from Turkey

Ugur, Etga

doi:10.1007/s11562-017-0380-z

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“…To explain democratic backsliding, others highlight factors such as the shifting balance of power in Turkish politics in favor of the AKP, the party’s ideology, and sociocultural cleavages (Kubicek, 2016; Ugur, 2017). Alternatively, they discuss the factors that facilitated democratic backsliding, that is, the ineffectiveness of social opposition, external anchors (in the form of the EU), AKP’s fear and self-confidence evoking a national mandate to rule as they saw fit (Öniş, 2015).…”

Section: Why Do Democracies Break Down?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Why did Turkish democracy collapse? A political economy account of AKP’s authoritarianism

Esen

Gümüşçü

2020

Party Politics

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After decades of multiparty politics, Turkey is no longer a democracy. A theory-upending case, the country has descended into a competitive authoritarian regime under the Justice and Development Party ( Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi—AKP), despite rising income and education levels and strong links with the West. What accounts for democratic breakdown in such an unlikely case? Instead of ideological and institutional factors, we offer a political economy account. We contend that the coalitional ties that the AKP forged with businesses and the urban poor through the distribution of public resources has altered the cost of toleration for the party leadership and their dependent clients, while reducing the cost of suppression for incumbents. This new political calculus led to increasing authoritarianism of the AKP government through securitization of dissent, mounting repression, and systematic violation of civil liberties.

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Section: Why Do Democracies Break Down?mentioning

confidence: 99%