Negotiating Political Power in Turkey: Breaking up the Party

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Elise Massicard (Institut Francais des Etudes Anatoliennes, Turkey) Nicole Watts (San Francisco State University, USA)

Negotiating Political Power in Turkey

Breaking up the Party

Elise Massicard (Institut Francais des Etudes Anatoliennes, Turkey), Nicole Watts (San Francisco State University, USA)

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Routledge
06 December 2012

Political parties

Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics

This edited collection looks at how political parties in Turkey actually work, inside and out. Departing from traditional macro-level analyses, the book offers a new sociological approach to the study of political parties, treating them as non-unitary entities composed of many different groups and individuals who both cooperate and compete with one another.

The central proposition of the book is that parties must be studied as clusters of relationships in specific locales rather than as unitary ‘black boxes.’ This ground-up approach provides new insights into the internal workings of political parties; why parties gain and lose elections and other political resources; and the ways in which power is negotiated and exercised in Turkey and beyond.

Chapters include studies of Islamic and Islamist parties from the 1970s to the present, ethnic Kurdish parties, center- and extreme right parties, and the far left, as well as independent candidates. The authors pay particular attention to relations – and the blurry boundaries-- between parties and civil society groups, religious associations, non-governmental organizations, ethnic and socio-economic groups, and state institutions, and to the variability of external and internal party politics in different geographies such as Adana, Mersin, and Diyarbakir.

Edited by: Elise Massicard (Institut Francais des Etudes Anatoliennes Turkey), Nicole Watts (San Francisco State University, USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 570g
ISBN: 9780415625180
ISBN 10: 0415625181
Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 06 December 2012
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nicole F. Watts is an associate professor in the department of political science at San Francisco State University. Her research concerns state-society relations, social movements, and dissent among the Kurds in Turkey and in Iraq. Her publications include Activists in Office: Kurdish Politics and Protest in Turkey (Univ. of Washington Press, 2010) and many journal articles and book chapters. Elise Massicard is Permanent Research Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, France, and Director of the Observatoire de la Vie Politique turque at the Institut Français des Études Anatoliennes in Istanbul. Her work focuses on the political sociology of contemporary Turkey.