Party politics & social cleavages in Turkey
By: Ergun Özbudun
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boulder, Colorado
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
ISBN-13: 9781588269003
Subjects: Politics and government; Political parties; Social conflict
Other titles: Party politics and social cleavages in Turkey
Description: "Despite radical changes in Turkish politics since the transition to a multiparty system in the mid-1940s, the center-right parties have consistently won an electoral majority. Why? How have they managed to maintain such a firm hold in the face of social cleavages that pit modernizing, secularist state elites against a conservative and pious majority? Ergun Özbudun uses the lens of Turkey's party and electoral systems to enhance our understanding of the country's polarized politics."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-148) and index.