The Persistence of Turkey's Majoritarian System of Government

Lord, Ceren

doi:10.1111/j.1477-7053.2011.01360.x

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“…In the Israeli case, the reform was a majoritarian element in a predominantly proportional-minded framework of politics, while in the Turkish case the directly elected president is a majoritarian element in a traditionally majoritarian framework (Lord 2012). Furthermore, political culture in Turkey is much more prone to rapid institutional change, while institutional change in Israel occurs much more gradually.…”

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Ein Policy-Zyklus der Wahlrechtsreform: Direkt gewählte Regierungschefs in Israel und der Türkei im Vergleich

Krumm

2023

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In studying electoral reforms, the democratic context is often a neglected variable. Israel and Turkey, at different times with different levels of democracy, have implemented a similar reform, the direct election of the chief executive. While there were similar justifications at the time of the introduction, the reforms then took on different dynamics. In Israel the reform was reversed, while in Turkey it became the centrepiece of further autocratisation. Adapting a framework of policy-analysis, the article explores similarities and differences in both cases. It argues that the democratic environment turns out as an important factor to explain the different trajectories of seemingly similar policy reforms in both cases. While the reverse reform in the Israeli case is linked to advantages in processing expert and civil society information, the trajectory in the Turkish case is based on the different power structure in the course of presidentialisation. Applying a comparative policy analysis to these cases of electoral reform, the article concludes that the democratic environment, that is, the degree of freely available information, helps explaining the different trajectories in both cases.

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Ein Policy-Zyklus der Wahlrechtsreform: Direkt gewählte Regierungschefs in Israel und der Türkei im Vergleich

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2023

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“…While the AKP started off as a reformist party, it becomes obvious that it is moving towards becoming a populist party. Without the abolition of the 10 per cent threshold on the percentage of votes a party should receive to win a seat in parliament and the move towards a presidential system, it appears that Turkey is becoming more majoritarian under a durable AKP government (Lord, 2012). The initial depolarization of the rich Anatolian entrepreneurs and the poor urbanites is the result of the public’s perception that the AKP government is doing something right based on the country’s relatively good economic performance and the stability within the party (Musil, 2014).…”

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Changing Strategy by Turkey’s AKP: The Learning Curve Theory

Shukri

2019

Millennial Asia

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Since 2014, Turkey has been moving towards a heightened sense of nationalism and populism especially after Recep Tayyip Erdogan became the first popularly elected President of Turkey in 2017. His nationalist rhetoric went up compared to when he became Prime Minister over a decade ago when the country was touted as a model of liberalism among Muslim countries. Rather than putting a damper on the party, government, or Erdogan himself, his conservative rhetoric has helped consolidate the government’s power, showcasing the shift in strategy by the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP) during uncertain times. This article borrows from behavioural psychology the concept of the learning curve theory or the S-curve theory to examine this shift in AKP strategy. It is argued that after reaching a political peak with the Gezi Park protest in the summer of 2013, Erdogan is employing a different rhetorical approach—a populist one—to gain more political traction.

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“…This is typical of the social science literature on/in Turkey, which is best summarized byBilgin and Tanrisever (2009: 174). 2 In addition toLijphart (2012 ) we also draw on, and extend,Lord (2012 ) in operationalizing the institutional features of Turkey's political system. 3 Such trend of "steering from the center" is also evident across advanced industrialized democracies(Dahlstrom, Peters, and Pierre, 2011).…”

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