Toygar Sinan Baykan

The Justice and Development Party in Turkey

Populism, Personalism, Organization

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Produktbeschreibung

A fieldwork-based account of the role of populism, personalism and organisation in the rise of Erdoğan's JDP to authoritarian predominance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781108461658
• ISBN-10: 1108461654
• Artikelnr.: 59638222

Autorenporträt

Toygar Sinan Baykan is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at Kirklareli University, Turkey. He attended the Middle East Technical University and Universiteit Leiden for his post-graduate studies and has a master's degree in comparative politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He received his Ph.D. degree in politics from the University of Sussex, with his dissertation focusing on the populism and organisation of the JDP in Turkey. His reviews have appeared in Party Politics, Mediterranean Politics and Political Studies Review. His research interests include party politics, comparative politics and populism.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: agency matters
2. The transformation of the Turkish party system: selective pluralism and the rise of the JDP
3. The high-low divide in Turkish politics and the populist appeal of the JDP
4. The JDP and Erdöan: non-charismatic personalism
5. The JDP strategies: moving beyond the basics of Turkish party politics
6. The JDP organization: a personalistic mass party
7. Elite recruitment in the JDP: 'you do not want these kinds of people in the parliament'
8. 'The new regime': the role of agency in the rise of competitive authoritarianism in Turkey
9. Conclusions: findings, implications, future research
Appendix 1. Brief information on the political parties in Turkey
Appendix 2. The high-low (or anti-populism/populism) and left-right divides in Turkey.