| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages) : maps |
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Middle East in focus series |
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Middle East in focus series.
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| Contents |
Introduction : change and stability -- 1. From collapse to liberation -- 2. Founding the republic and the cultural revolution (1923-1946) -- 3. Democracy at work and at risk (1946-1960) -- 4. The second republic (1961-1980) -- 5. The third republic (1980- ) -- 6. Governance, change, and risk -- Conclusion : making a bridge functional |
| Summary |
Turkey is a pivotal state whose domestic political, economic, and social developments have important implications across the globe. Here a leading Turkish political scientist enhances understanding of the interactions of liberal democracy with longstanding cultural cleavages along secular-religious lines, ethnicity, and social class. This work focuses on how the process of urbanization and industrialization has led to social mobilization and population movements from villages into the cities and how competition to control the state and its networks of patronage has made politics contentious and fragmented. Intertwined with Turkey's domestic political and economic dynamics are the influences of relations, including tensions, with important external actors |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Religion & beliefs -- Turkey.
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Political control & freedoms -- Turkey.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Religion.
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Turkey -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138829
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Turkey -- Politics and government -- 20th century
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| Subject |
Turkey.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781403978660 |
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1403978662 |
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