Being a Member of Parliament in contemporary Turkey

Dorronsoro, Gilles; Massicard, Élise

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“…Thus, MPs may fi nd ample opportunities to use their membership of a committee instrumentally, to provide gains for their supporters. In light of the growing evidence of legislative professionalism among Turkish MPs, with its attendant emphasis on constituency service (Dorronsoro and Massicard, 2005;Hazama, 2005), it seems especially likely that the members of the TBMM may have turned toward its committee system to advance their career objectives.…”

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“…As the large number of party defections shows, the electoral benefi ts of party membership do not necessarily outweigh other considerations in the minds of many Turkish parliamentarians. In Turkey, this motive is accompanied by the increasing professionalism of legislators and the importance of constituency service (Dorronsoro and Massicard, 2005;Hazama, 2005).…”

Section: Theoretical Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Committee Assignments in a Nascent Party System: The Case of the Turkish Grand National Assembly

Ciftci

Forrest

Tekin

2008

International Political Science Review

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Abstract. In the USA, scholars have developed theories to explain the role of legislative committees, but these theories have not been widely tested outside the USA. This ambivalence results from the perception that the strength of political parties in parliamentary systems undermines the importance of other legislative institutions, including the committees. We surveyed members of the Turkish parliament during a period of considerable party-system turmoil to test the applicability of the prominent theories of committee organization (the distributive, informational, and partisan theories) to a parliamentary system. We found strong support for the distributive and partial support for the informational specialization and partisan theories. We consider the implications of these results for our understanding of the role of committees in parliamentary democracies and the study of parliamentary politics.

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Section: Theoretical Implicationsmentioning

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Committee Assignments in a Nascent Party System: The Case of the Turkish Grand National Assembly

Ciftci

Forrest

Tekin

2008

International Political Science Review

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“…Studies of the Turkish party system indicate that the role of MPs in legislation depends on the functioning of their political parties (Dorronsoro and Massicard 2005), which limits cooperation between MPs from different parties to get support for their individual legislative agendas and therefore leads PMBs to lean toward the party position. This is related to a number of institutional factors.…”

Section: The Turkish Parliamentary Systemmentioning

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Who Represents Women in Turkey? An Analysis of Gender Difference in Private Bill Sponsorship in the 2011–15 Turkish Parliament

Bektas

Issever-Ekinci

2018

Pol & Gen

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In this study, we examine substantive representation of women in the 2011–15 Turkish Parliament by focusing on sponsorship of private members’ bills by members of parliament (MPs) across eight major issue areas. The Turkish case offers new insights into women's representation, not only because this topic is unexplored in the Turkish context but also because it provides an opportunity to examine the tension between gender as a social identity and ideology as a political identity in a legislature characterized by disciplined political parties and low gender parity. Findings indicate that women MPs in Turkey substantively represent women by sponsoring more bills on women's rights and equality issues than their male colleagues, despite their low numbers in parliament and affiliation with highly disciplined parties. Party ideology also shapes women MPs’ issue priorities depending on the emphasis placed by the parties on different issue areas. Whereas left-wing women MPs sponsor more bills on women's rights and equality issues defined with a feminist accent, right-wing women MPs sponsor more bills on issues regarding children and family. Left-wing women also differ significantly from right-wing women in their sponsorship of bills on health and social affairs issues, as left-wing parties prioritize those issues more than right-wing parties.

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“…Since Weber, political parties are believed to encourage professionalization, and yet in Samoa, where the Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) has enjoyed virtually uninterrupted power for three decades, politicians describe political practice in similar terms. This supports the Weberian view (cf., Dorronsoro and Massicard ) that the catalyst for professionalization is increased bureaucratization of the party organization and ancillary political positions within the superstructure of state‐based institutions, rather than the existence of coherent ideological groupings. Indeed, as I have argued elsewhere (Corbett ), strict leadership categorizations are often anathema in the Pacific Islands, where individuals undertake multiple roles and the boundaries between the personal and the political are blurred—in small island states could it ever be otherwise?…”

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Politicians and Professionalization in the Pacific Islands: Revisiting Self‐Regulation?

Corbett

2013

Politics & Policy

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In this article, I examine the nature of political practice in the Pacific Islands against two dominant measures of professionalization: incentive and institutionalist. Drawing from a range of qualitative data-interviews with politicians, published life histories, and observation-from across the region, I find that professionalization is largely unapparent against these measures. However, despite the likelihood that this absence will continue, the professional politician continues to be a standard against which political leadership in the Pacific is assessed, and thus poses a significant problem for would-be-reformers. In response to this dilemma, I find that the older idea of self-regulating professional ethics, usually disregarded by proponents of these newer and more managerial measures, has more to offer than might first appear.En este artículo examino la naturaleza de la práctica política en las islas del Pacífico frente a dos estándares dominantes de profesionalización: el de incentivos y el institucionalista. Derivando de un rango de datos cualitativos a lo largo de la región, tales como entrevistas con políticos, biografías publicadas y observación, encuentro que la profesionalización es muy débil en relación a las estándares mencionados. No obstante, a pesar de que dicha debilidad persista, el político profesional continuara siendo el estándar frente al cual el liderazgo político en el Pacífico será evaluado, planteando así un problema significativo para reformadores potenciales. En respuesta a este dilema, encuentro que la vieja idea de la autoregulación de la ética profesional, que es usualmente desechada por proponentes de los estándares más recientes y más gerenciales, tiene más que ofrecer de lo que es aparente a primera vista.

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Being a Member of Parliament in contemporary Turkey

Cited by 4 publications

References 33 publications

Committee Assignments in a Nascent Party System: The Case of the Turkish Grand National Assembly

Committee Assignments in a Nascent Party System: The Case of the Turkish Grand National Assembly

Who Represents Women in Turkey? An Analysis of Gender Difference in Private Bill Sponsorship in the 2011–15 Turkish Parliament

Politicians and Professionalization in the Pacific Islands: Revisiting Self‐Regulation?

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