Turkeys Electoral Geography
Analyzing Turkeys electoral geography, this volume evaluates the geographical repercussions of the elections in Turkey since the establishment of multiparty politics in 1950. The book focuses on the last two decades, examining the interaction between electoral behavior and regional dynamics.
Various issues related to the geographical connotations of Turkish electoral politics are qualitatively and quantitatively addressed by scholars with diverse backgrounds in social sciences. The chapters herein examine how Turkeys electoral geography has been shaped over the years to correspond with a certain aspect of multiparty politics, such as voting behaviors, political parties and party systems, nationalization and regionalization, redistricting, gender issues, identity dynamics, or ideological polarization. This comprehensive work contributes to the theoretical debates in electoral geography in general. Utilizing notions from electoral geography literature, this book develops new concepts through the Turkish case.
Filling an important gap in the literature on Turkish politics, this contemporary analysis will be a key resource to policymakers, students, and scholars interested in political science, Turkey, and the Middle East.
Edip Asaf Bekarolu earned his PhD in political science at Bilkent University, Turkey in 2010. Since then, he has worked as a full-time faculty member at stanbul Universitys Department of Political Science and International Relations. His research interests are democratization, political parties and elections, secularism, and multiculturalism.
Glsen Kaya Osmanbaolu earned her PhD in political science at Bilkent University in 2014. She is a faculty member at the Social Sciences University of Ankara, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, and the deputy director of Social Innovation Center (ASBU-SIM). Her research interests are Turkish politics, political parties and elections, modernization, human rights, and social innovation.
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Turkeys Electoral Geography
Trends, Behaviors, and Identities
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Trends, Behaviors, and Identities
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Names: Bekarolu, Edip Asaf, editor. | Osmanbaolu,
Gulsen Kaya, editor.
Title: Turkeys electoral geography : trends, behaviors, and identities /
edited by Edip Asaf Bekarolu and Gulsen Kaya Osmanbaolu.
Other titles: Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics ; 106.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN 9780367632793 (hardback) | ISBN 9781003118626 (ebook) |
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Subjects: LCSH: ElectionsTurkeyHistory20th century. | ElectionsTurkey
History21st century. | Political partiesTurkeyHistory20th century. |
Political partiesTurkeyHistory21st century. | Political geography. |
TurkeyPolitics and government20th century. | TurkeyPolitics and
government21st century.
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Edip Asaf Bekarolu and Glsen Kaya Osmanbaolu
zhan Demirkol and Edip Asaf Bekarolu
Glsen Kaya Osmanbaolu
Tanju Tosun, Betl Aydoan nal and Glgn Erdoan Tosun
Hseyin Alptekin
Selin Akyz and Krat nar
Ayenur Kl
Mezher Yksel
Necati Anaz and Mehmet Kse
Selin Akyz earned her PhD in Political Science at Bilkent University in 2012. She worked as a research fellow and instructor at Bilkent University. She is currently a member of the faculty at TED University, Ankara. Dr. Akyzs research interests are gender and politics, masculinity, and Turkish politics.
Hseyin Alptekin earned his PhD in Political Science at the University of Texas at Austin in 2014. Dr. Alptekin is working as Associate Professor of Political Science at stanbul Medipol University. His research interests are elections, ethnic politics, nationalism, and political violence.
Necati Anaz earned his PhD in Geography at University of Oklahoma in 2012. He is Associate Professor of International Relations at stanbul University. Dr. Anazs research interests are political geography, international security, and diaspora politics.