Browsing by Keywords "Civil society"
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An analysis on the contribution of civil society to democratic consolidation in Turkey
(Bilkent University, 2007)This is an analysis on the contribution of civil society to democratic consolidation in Turkey. This thesis will try to understand this problematic by assessing the civil society’s formal structure, legal framework, ... -
File: Turkey, Europeanization and civil society
(2005)This article reviews the Europeanization literature and proposes to distinguish between four different kinds of Europeanization: policy-Europeanization, political Europeanization, societal Europeanization and discursive ... -
Globalization, civil society and citizenship in Turkey: actors, boundaries and discourses
(Routledge, 2003)In recent years, civil society has become one of the most important concerns of academic and public discourse. It would not be a mistake to propose that today there is a strong, effective and even over-glorified talk about ... -
Islamists and the state: changing discourses on the state, civil society and democracy in Turkey
(Routledge, 2018)Once an oppositional ideology in the 1990s that united Muslim intellectuals around a radical critique of the state based on the ideals of democracy, civil society and pluralism, how has Turkish Islamism transformed into a ... -
The nature of the relationship between religious communities and civil society in Turkey : the case of the Fethullah Gulen community
(Bilkent University, 1998)This thesis addresses the question as to whether or not religious communities can be defined as part civil societal organization within the context of democratization efforts in Turkey. The Fethullah Gülen Community will ... -
NGO's as the link between state and society? Women's community centers in Southeastern Turkey
(Bilkent University, 2003)Civil society initiatives in Turkey are transforming from organizations based on traditional commitments, religious ties, and other primordial forms of relations to organizations based on universal values, which are ... -
Revisiting civil society in Turkey
(Routledge, 2011-03)In studies on civil society, there is a tendency to perceive it as an instrument for the transition from an authoritarian system of government to a democratic one. It is not taken as a societal entity in an already ...
