Title: Ethnicity and Elections in Turkey
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.
Subjects: Political participation, Political parties, turkey, Kurds, Elections, turkey, Turkey, politics and government, Political parties, Voting research, Politics and government, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, AK Parti (Turkey), POLITICAL SCIENCE, General, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Regional Studies, Ethnische Identität, Wahlverhalten, Wechselwähler