This article examines the extremely volatile character of electoral system changes that took place in Turkey from the end of the Second World War up until the end of the 1990s. Motives that drove these changes were either related to intentions to prevent the undesirable repetition of the past ...
The changes have yet to be approved by parliament where the AKP has a comfortable majority. They allow MHP leader Devlet Bahceli to escape the possibility of falling below Turkey's 10 percent electoral threshold to be represented at parliament because the alliance's combined votes would determine ...
, Pro- ceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Istanbul, Turkey. Genereux, M., Evans, R.P., 2006. Distinguishing affective states in we- blogs, in: AAAI-2006 Spring Symposium on Computational...
Drawing on Sartori's framework, we first clarify the concept of a predominant party system. Second, we examine the impact of the electoral system on the emergence of a predominant party system in Turkey. Analysing election results, we argue that the electoral system fosters dominance in three ...
Over the last 50 years, Turkey's electoral system has been subjected to frequent changes. It is still the subject of controversy, since it has significant effects on the functioning of the political system. Following the introduction of a form of proportional representation in 1961, its most ...
Social Cleavages and Electoral Support in Turkey: Toward Convergence? The Developing Economies, 41(3), pp.362-387.Hazama, Yasushi. 2003. "Social Cleavages and Electoral Support in Turkey - Toward Convergence?" The Development Economies 41(3):362-87....
Sabri Sayari, "Non-Electoral Sources of Party System Change in Turkey", in Serap Yazici et al. (eds.), Essays in Honor of Ergun Ozbudun, Vol. 1 Political Science, Ankara, Yetkin, 2008, p. 399-417, http://research.sabanciuniv.edu/9822/2/Nonelectoral_ Sources_of_Party_System_Change_...
Focusing on the initial stage of multiparty competition, when the cleavage is often said to have been most salient, this article explores the empirical evidence to show that the concept as commonly employed has actually confounded an effective understanding of electoral behavior in Turkey. Rather ...
Finally, extreme parties have benefitted from Greece's fragmented party system since 2012 whereas electoral engineering in Turkey has failed to prevent non-core groups from passing the electoral threshold.TAKIN, BurcuAKIN, BerfinJournal of Balkan Research Institute / Balkan Aratrma Ens...
Over the last 50 years, Turkey's electoral system has been subjected to frequent changes. It is still the subject of controversy, since it has significant effects on the functioning of the political system. Following the introduction of a form of proportional representation in 1961, its most ...