Browsing by Author "Esen, Berk"
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An alternative account of the populist backlash in the United States: a perspective from Turkey
(Cambridge University Press, 2019)Scholars tend to assume that consolidated democracies are free from the global retreat of democracy due to their strong institutions and economic development. Yet, populist forces that challenge the liberal democratic model ... -
Building a competitive authoritarian regime: state-business relations in the AKP’s Turkey
(Routledge, 2017-11)The most recent global wave of democratic reversal is marked by executive takeovers. Politically motivated interventions in domestic markets aimed at restructuring the underlying power dynamics in society have been part ... -
Killing competitive authoritarianism softly: the 2019 local elections in Turkey
(Routledge, 2019-11)On 31 March 2019 Turkish voters ended the Islamist local governance in the country’s largest cities after 25 years and handed the ruling AKP its most serious electoral defeat since its rise to power in 2002. The article ... -
The perils of "Turkish presidentialism"
(Cambridge University Press, 2018)Turkey has switched to a presidential system via a referendum held in April 2017 that will take full effect after the 2019 presidential elections. Turkish presidentialism increases the prominence of the executive at the ... -
Praetorian army in action: a critical assessment of civil–military relations in Turkey
(Sage Publications, 2021-01)With four successful and three failed coups in less than 60 years, the Turkish military is one of the most interventionist armed forces in the global south. Despite this record, few scholars have analyzed systematically ... -
The Turkish presidential elections of 24 June 2018
(Routledge, 2020)On 24 June 2018 Turkish voters headed to the polls to elect a new president and parliament after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s decision to call for snap elections eighteen months earlier than scheduled. The election was ... -
Why did Turkish democracy collapse? A political economy account of AKP’s authoritarianism
(SAGE Publications, 2021)After decades of multiparty politics, Turkey is no longer a democracy. A theory-upending case, the country has descended into a competitive authoritarian regime under the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma ...
