Title: Party politics & 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.
Subjects: Politics and government, Political parties, Social conflict, Political parties, turkey, Turkey, politics and government
Places: Turkey
Time periods: 1960-