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Title

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

Author

Musil, Pelin Ayan, 1981-

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Description

xi, 232 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

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.

Subject

• Political parties > Turkey > History
• Authoritarianism > Turkey
• Political parties > Turkey > Case studies
• Authoritarianism
• Political parties > Turkey
• Political parties
• POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Parties
• Political structure & processes > Turkey
• Politics and Government

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 9780230337527 (hc : alk. paper)
• 023033752X (hc : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011023453

OCLC

730404407

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Harvard Library