A spatial analysis of Turkish party preferences

Social or political cleavages? A spatial analysis of the party system in post-authoritarian Chile

“…While early empirical applications of this model required rather restrictive assumptions (e.g., one-dimensional choice, single-peaked preferences), later work adapted it to less restrictive situations Hinich 1966, 1968;Romer and Rosenthal 1978;Cox 1990;Hinich and Munger 1994). Scholars have applied the Cahoon-Hinich spatial modeling technique to analyze party systems as diverse as the United States (Enelow and Hinich 1984;Ghobarah 2000), Taiwan (Lin et al 1996), Germany (Pappi and Eckstein 1998), Ukraine (Hinich et al 1999), and Turkey (Carkoglu and Hinich 2006).…”

The Nature of Left–Right Ideological Self‐placement in the Turkish Context

“…Continuing along a multidimensional explanatory framework, we argued that Mardin's center-periphery construct still maintains the overall salient characteristics of Turkish politics that shape and reshape the modern-day party system's constellations of electoral preferences. 27 Even a cursory evaluation of the Turkish party system in the multiparty era would reveal a striking degree of congruity between center-periphery explanations and broad historical patterns. The closing of the Democrat Party (Demokrat Parti, DP) and the execution of three from its top leadership by the military junta had a prime implication for the organization's electoral politics.…”

Religiosity and tolerance in Turkey: Is Islam the problem?

“…4. For further discussion on religious-secular divide in Turkey, see Göle (1997aGöle ( ), (1997b, Bayramoğlu (2006), Somer (2007), Somer (2010), Keyman (2007), Grigoriadis (2009), Kalaycıoğlu (2012) and Çarkoğlu and Hinnich (2006). Moreover, the term 'neighborhood pressure' raised by Mardin (2007) has been widely embraced by the Turkish society to talk about this social tension amongst the two camps.…”