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Turkish Politics and the Rise of the AKP

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been in power in Turkey since 2002. This is the first book-length analysis to chart the rise and development of the party from its Islamist origins through to government, analyzing in particular its internal organization and dynamics.

Since its foundation in 2001, the AKP seems to have been more successful than any other party with an Islamic background in the history of the Turkish Republic. Drawing on interviews and analyses of quantitative data from primary and secondary sources, the author examines the partys character as an organization, its internal power structure, electoral roots, strategy, and leadership in the context of its organizational environmentincluding its constitution and major veto players, as well as its international actors.

Going beyond a mere analysis of Turkish politics and parties, this book applies classical theories and models of political parties to the Turkish case. Focusing on the notion of institutionalization and its two main dimensionsautonomy and systemnessit makes an original contribution to the empirical study of the AKP, contemporary Turkish politics, and the general discussion on theories of party organization.

Arda Can Kumbaracba teaches politics at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. His main research focuses primarily on the theories of government, party organizations and party systems; and domestic politics of Turkey with an emphasis on protest element in voting behavior and role of Islamic ideologies.

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Turkish Politics and the Rise of the AKP

Dilemmas of institutionalization and leadership strategy

Arda Can Kumbaracba

Turkish Politics and the Rise of the AKP

Dilemmas of institutionalization and leadership strategy

Arda Can Kumbaracba

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Kumbaracba, Arda Can.
Turkish politics and the rise of the AKP: dilemmas of
institutionalization and leadership strategy/Arda Can Kumbaracba.
p. cm. (Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics; 5)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. AK Parti (Turkey)History. 2. TurkeyPolitics and government
1980 I. Title.
JQ1809.A8A45 2009
324.2561'04dc22 2008052122

ISBN 0-203-87629-6 Master e-book ISBN

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To my mom and dad
anneme ve babama

Contents

Illustrations

Tables

2.1	Model of party institutionalization
2.2	Institutionalization of political parties
2.3	Extensions of the curvilinear disparity law
2.4	Mass-bureaucratic and electoral-professional parties
6.1	Turkish election laws and type of government
6.2	Percentage of votes won by each party in parliamentary elections (19502002)
6.3	Changes in the political spectrum (between 1983 and 2002 elections)
6.4	Vote percentage and representation of Islamist parties
6.5	Comparison of the vote percentage for parties in the 1999 and 2002 election results
6.6	Local assembly and administration election results (2004)
6.7	Distribution of assembly memberships (among the first eight parties)
6.8	Vote share of parties in local assembly elections (19992004)
6.9	Comparison of the 2002 general and the 2004 local assembly elections
6.10	OLS regression of the AKP result of 2002 on selected district-level variables
6.11	Multinomial-logit estimation results of the vote intention function
6.12	Party identification and identity among Turkish voters (2006)
7.1	The AKP organization
7.2	AKP income at party HQ (2004 and 2006, YTL)
7.3	AKP expenditure at party HQ (2004 and 2006, YTL)
7.4	Distribution of seats in the TGNA (2002 and 2004)
7.5	Distribution of seats in the TGNA (2005 and 2006)

Figures

2.1	A descriptive model of party organization

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