Title Authoritarian party structures and democratic political setting in Turkey / Pelin Ayan Musil

Edition 1st ed Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 232 pages) : illustrations Contents Existing Explanations on Intra-Party Authoritarianism -- Intra-Party Authoritarianism in Turkey -- A Principal-Agent Approach to Intra-Party Authoritarianism -- Understanding the Variance in Intra-Party Authoritarianism -- Intra-Party Authoritarianism in Turkey: Empirical Findings -- Explaining the Variance in Intra-Party Authoritarianism in Turkey -- Conclusions, Implications, Future Studies -- Appendix A: List of Open-ended Interview Questions -- Appendix B: Outline of the Interviews Introduction -- Existing explanations on intra-party authoritarianism -- Intra-party authoritarianism in Turkey -- A principal-agent approach to intra-party authoritarianism -- Understanding the variance in intra-party authoritarianism -- Intra-party authoritarianism in Turkey: empirical findings -- Explaining the variance in intra-party authoritarianism in Turkey -- Conclusions, implications, future studies Summary Political culture and institutions may cause the development of authoritarian party organizations. Yet what constitutes their structure and what explains their changing patterns across time and space? Conducting a comparative case study among four parties in the Turkish political system and utilizing the principal-agent approach to party governance, this study shows how the variance in interest configurations and the power resources of local party activists constitute these changing patterns. Musil argues that exit from intra-party authoritarianism is always a possibility, not only because the party leaders choose to do so, but because the local party activists can challenge the existing structures by cultivating their own power resources Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Political parties -- Turkey -- History Authoritarianism -- Turkey Political parties -- Turkey -- Case studies Political structure & processes -- Turkey. Political parties -- Turkey. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Parties. Politics and Government. Authoritarianism Political parties Turkey Genre/Form Case studies History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781137015853 1137015853

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