Party building in the modern Middle East /
"Why was Turkey - alone of all the modern states that emerged from the Ottoman Empire - the only Middle Eastern country to evolve lasting competitive political institutions? In response to this timely question, Michele Angrist reconstructs the evolution of proto-democratic norms in Turkey and e...
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Table of Contents:
- The emergence of the preponderant single party systems
- The emergence of the multiparty systems
- The emergence of bipartism in Turkey
- Preponderant single parties and immediate authoritarian rule
- Polarization, mobilizational asymmetry, and delayed authoritarian rule
- Depolarization, increased mobilizational symmetry, and the consolidation of competitive politics in Turkey.