A leading Turkish political scientist enhances understanding of the interactions of liberal democracy with longstanding cultural cleavages along secular-religious lines, ethnicity, and social class. This chronological narrative focuses on how the process of urbanization and industrialization has led to social mobilization and population movements.
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2006
'...a dense and thought-provoing book. Kalaycio?lu is keenly alive to the ambiguities and contradictions of Turkish politics and careful to explain aspects of Turkish culture, social and political, which are not well understood in Western Europe...' - Angela Gillon, Asian Affairs
'...a dense and thought-provoing book. Kalaycio?lu is keenly alive to the ambiguities and contradictions of Turkish politics and careful to explain aspects of Turkish culture, social and political, which are not well understood in Western Europe...' - Angela Gillon, Asian Affairs