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Since 1945, Turkey has witnessed no fewer than three breakdowns of the democratic process (1960, 1971 and 1980) and three retransitions to democracy (1961, 1973 and 1983). In this text, the author analyzes 50 years of Turkish politics and provides a theoretical and comparative perspective.

Despite radical changes in Turkish politics since the transition to a multiparty system in the mid-1940s, the centre-right parties have consistently won an electoral majority. How have they managed to maintain such a firm hold in the face of social cleavages that pit modernising, secularist state elites against a conservative and pious majority? Ergun Özbudun uses the lens of Turkey's electoral systems to enhance our understanding of the count...

Scholars have long argued that political participation tends to increase with economic and social modernization. In this study of Turkey, however, the author shows that rapid socio-economic growth has coincided with a substantial decline in turnout at the polls. His ecological analysis of subnational aggregate voting data for the sixties and the explanation of his startling findings form the core of this up-to-date and comprehensive survey of ...