2014
DOI: 10.1080/14683849.2014.986317
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Theory-consuming or Theory-producing?: Studying Turkey as a Theory-developing Critical Case

Abstract: Case studies of Turkey are typically read and cited as narratives of the Turkish case itself, suppliers of case-specific data, or at best, applications of more general theories. They are not perceived as theory-testing, producing, or even informing exercises. While this tendency partly results from the institutional, geographical-cultural, and methodological biases of extant social sciences, scholars may also be to blame for neglecting theorydevelopment or for producing descriptive narratives. How can Turkish … Show more

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“…The Turkish case helps to uncover the causal mechanisms of pernicious polarization, not only because it tallies with the aforementioned causal pattern but also because it can be analyzed as a theory-disconfirming “crucial case” (Somer 2014b, 3, 7–9). Democratization failed under the AKP despite many auspicious conditions identified in extant theories of democratization (and related theories such as those involving religious actors and democratization).…”
Section: Conclusion and Ten Causal Mechanismsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The Turkish case helps to uncover the causal mechanisms of pernicious polarization, not only because it tallies with the aforementioned causal pattern but also because it can be analyzed as a theory-disconfirming “crucial case” (Somer 2014b, 3, 7–9). Democratization failed under the AKP despite many auspicious conditions identified in extant theories of democratization (and related theories such as those involving religious actors and democratization).…”
Section: Conclusion and Ten Causal Mechanismsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Tenth, forced into a pro-status-quo position to obstruct the AKP’s polarizing-cum-transformative politics, opposition parties failed to reinvent themselves as prochange actors with new discourses, programs, and organizational forms (Somer 2007 and 2014b; Kumbaracıbaşı 2009; Ayan Musil 2014). With the opposition now including those who were non-Islamist center-right, doing so could have reestablished the electoral balance of power with the AKP, compelling the latter to act more democratically (LeBas 2011; Somer 2017).…”
Section: Conclusion and Ten Causal Mechanismsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Her ne kadar bu çalışmalar Türkiye'deki gelişmeleri anlamak ve anlamlandırmak açısından değerli olsa da var olan teorinin Türkiye özelinde test edilmesinin ötesine geçemediği için ulaştıkları kitle daha sınırlı olmaktadır. Buna karşılık "teorik bilgi ihraç eden" çalışmalar Türkiye'ye özgü gelişmelerin teori yapıcı bir vaka olarak alınıp başka ülkelere de adapte edilebilecek şekilde uluslararası literatüre kazandırılmasını sağlayabilir (Somer, 2014). Tam da bu nedenle, Uluslararası İlişkiler alanının başat dergilerinde sıklıkla karşılaşılan "sadece Türkiye'ye odaklandığı için dergimize E. Tokdemir, E. Hatipoğlu uygun değildir" yorumuna rağmen yine aynı dergilerde tek ülkeye odaklanan birçok çalışmada görülebilmektedir.…”
Section: Türki̇ye Temelli̇ Veri̇ Toplama Prati̇kleri̇unclassified
“…A recent study shows that published articles that cover Turkey as a subject area are predominantly single case studies. Only 3 out of 627 articles published about Turkey between 1990 and 2014 in the top 40 ISI journals were large-N studies, and 164 were comparative case studies (Somer 2014). Although single case studies may have certain strengths, such as providing in-depth, intensive information about a phenomenon or tracing the processes and mechanisms between causes and observed outcomes, they are limited in establishing external validity, that is, in the extent to which their results can be generalized to other cases (George and Bennett 2005).…”
Section: Standardized Data To Compare Empirical Claimsmentioning
confidence: 99%