Strong presidents and weak institutions: populism in Turkey, Venezuela and Ecuador

Selçuk, Orçun

doi:10.4324/9781315145716-6

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“…To sum up all, a minimal conceptualization of populism, which is fruitful for any analysis exploring various cases in different regions, relies on the afore-mentioned core features. Many examples of populist politics in different contexts demonstrate those features like we see in the cases of Chavez in Venezuela and Wilders in Netherlands (Bonikpwski, 2016;Selçuk, 2016). Yet, it is important to note again is that some of the core features of populism suggested in the literature are actually strategies of populism or conditions for populism to emerge rather than the features of it.…”

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“…The phenomenon is, therefore, explored in the literature in many contexts and cases, yet without a clear conceptual framework. In addition to many conceptualizations of populism, studying these in the literature resulted with the proliferation of populisms: "authoritarian populism", "right-wing/left-wing populism", "inclusive/exclusive populism", "Islamic populism", "neopopulism", "Eurosceptic populism", "third world populism", "neoliberal populism", "advanced populism", "electoral populism" (Di Tella, 1997;Hadiz, 2014;Mişcoiu, 2013;Mudde, 2004;Mudde and Kaltwasser, 2013;Munro-Kua, 1996;Peters and Pierre 2020;Selçuk, 2016). The proliferation is due to arguments referring strategies of populism found in different cases as features of populism, which leads, in turn, to the various classifications of populism in each case.…”

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Populism in Perspective: Many Strategies, Not Populisms

Yılmaz¹

2021

Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi

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In the recent years, populism has become a dominant theme in world politics especially through the debates around the issues like Brexit or 2016 US elections. Despite a number of studies exploring the phenomenon, the literature on populism remains highly fragmented due to the lack of a conceptual framework to start the analysis with a tendency to generate too many populisms (e.g. authoritarian populism, neopopulism, third-world populism). This article starts with this puzzling development in the literature and aims to provide a framework that is applicable to the cases of populism via differentiating strategies of populism from its core features. The article argues that there is no need to invent new populisms in each and every case, but a need to map the concept by referring to the core features of populism and strategies available for the usage by populist politicians.

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Section: No Need For Proliferation Of Populisms: Core Featuresmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Populism in Perspective: Many Strategies, Not Populisms

Yılmaz¹

2021

Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi

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“…The idea was to weaken or lift checkand-balance mechanisms in favor of allowing for a stronger executive. 27 Crafters of the new fundamental law envisioned the abolition of the office of the prime minister with the creation of the new order. Buoyed by the favorable political environment in the aftermath of the abortive July 15, 2016 coup, Erdoğan exploited the opportunity to present his desired constitutional reform to the people in the form of a referendum.…”

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For the People, Against the Elites: Left versus Right-Wing Populism in Greece and Turkey

Grigoriadis

2020

The Journal of the Middle East and Africa

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While the rise of populism has been a global trend in recent years, it has been prevalent in Greece and Turkey for longer, leaving a strong imprint on the politics of both countries. Leftwing populism has become one of the constitutive elements of the Greek political party system since the collapse of the 1967-1974 military regime. The 2009 outbreak of the Greek economic crisis set the stage for the radicalization of Greek politics through the rise of extremist far-right and far-left populist parties that professed populist agendas of different hues. Such populists accused old-party personnel of being members of a "treacherous elite" that sacrificed Greek national interests against foreign powers. The 2011 "indignados" movement is key for the better understanding of the social dynamics that facilitated the rise of the unusual SYRIZA-ANEL coalition government. Debates on Greek constitutional reform also highlighted the relevance of populism, especially as the SYRIZA-ANEL government sought topics to resonate with its disenchanted voters. On the other hand, a right-wing populist rhetoric has been one of the key instruments for the rise of Turkish political Islam and the establishment of the AKP hegemony in Turkey. Establishing a Kulturkampf-based narrative about the "secularist, 'white-Turk' elites" versus the "conservative, 'black-Turk' people" was of great political significance. The constitutional reform process proved again crucial for manifesting the relevance of populism in Turkish political discourse. This article explores the circumstances under which left-and right-wing populism have emerged into a dominant feature of Greek and Turkish politics. It also discusses the decreasing relevance of the established leftright political divide in party politics and suggests alternative classifications.

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“… 27. For a comparative analysis of the populist strategies of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Hugo Chávez and Rafael Correa, see Selçuk (2016). …”

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‘Populism as a medium of mass mobilization’: The case of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Türk

2018

International Area Studies Review

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It goes without saying that Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has put his mark on the last 14 years of Turkish politics. The main argument of this study is that the case of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan provides an illustrative example to make sense of populism as a medium of mass mobilization. Furthermore, it is argued that Erdoğan’s leadership can be best understood by taking into account how he manages political crises. Accordingly, through the examples of 2007, 2013 and 2016, which mark critical periods in Turkish politics, the article attempts to highlight the major characteristics of Erdoğan’s populist leadership.

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Strong presidents and weak institutions: populism in Turkey, Venezuela and Ecuador

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Populism in Perspective: Many Strategies, Not Populisms

Populism in Perspective: Many Strategies, Not Populisms

For the People, Against the Elites: Left versus Right-Wing Populism in Greece and Turkey

‘Populism as a medium of mass mobilization’: The case of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

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