The Justice and Development Party in Turkey
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The Justice and Development Party in Turkey

Populism, Personalism, Organization

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The Justice and Development Party in Turkey

Populism, Personalism, Organization

About this book

Turkish politics were remarkably reshaped in the early 2000s following the decline of the Islamist National View and the electoral breakthrough of the new Justice and Development Party (JDP) headed by Erdo?an. Beside its Islamist credentials, Erdo?an's JDP consistently and convincingly presented itself as the 'populist' defender of the downtrodden sectors of Turkish society. However, with Erdo?an's rise as the popularly elected president in 2014, Turkey's already fragile democratic system was driven in a more authoritarian direction. Shifting the focus away from structural factors, this book analyzes the political appeal and organisation of the JDP that granted them such unprecedented electoral resilience. With critical but accessible theoretical discussions, Toygar Sinan Baykan locates the JDP within the wider literature of populism, Islamist party politics, party organisations and authoritarianism. Over fifty in-depth interviews also help to relate the intimate story of Turkey's socio-cultural divides and the JDP's intraparty organisational dynamics, thereby offering a fresh account of Turkish politics.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Contents
  6. Figures
  7. Tables
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Dedication
  10. 1 Introduction: Agency Matters
  11. 2 The Transformation of the Turkish Party System: Selective Pluralism and the Rise of the JDP
  12. 3 The High-Low Divide in Turkish Politics and the Populist Appeal of the JDP
  13. 4 The JDP and Erdogan: Non-Charismatic Personalism
  14. 5 The JDP's Strategies: Moving beyond the Basics of Turkish Party Politics
  15. 6 The JDP Organization: A Personalistic Mass Party
  16. 7 Elite Recruitment in the JDP: 'You Do Not Want These Kinds of People in the Parliament'
  17. 8 'The New Regime': The Role of Agency in the Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism in Turkey
  18. 9 Conclusions: Findings, Implications, Future Research
  19. Appendix 1 Political Parties in Turkey
  20. Appendix 2 The High-Low (or Anti-Populism-Populism) and Left-Right Divides in Turkey
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index