Ethnicity and Elections in Turkey
Subtitle: Party Politics and the Mobilization of Swing Voters
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781138774841
Subjects: Political participation; Political parties, turkey; Kurds; Elections, turkey; Turkey, politics and government
Description: "Ethnicity and Elections in Turkey attempts to understand the mobilization strategies of incumbent parties to consolidate and increase their support among swing voters of an ethnic group. By analyzing the strategy of AKP on voters of Kurdish origin, it investigates the conditions under which it can mobilize them through the clientelistic network and its effectiveness in increasing support for the party.