The transformation of western European social democracy and its reflections on Turkish center-left

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buir.advisorGençkaya, Ömer Faruk
dc.contributor.authorEvcan, Sinan
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-08T20:16:17Z
dc.date.available2016-01-08T20:16:17Z
dc.date.issued1999
dc.departmentDepartment of Political Science and Public Administrationen_US
dc.descriptionAnkara : Department of Political Science and Public Administration and Institute of Economics and Social Sciences, Bilkent Univ., 1999.en_US
dc.descriptionThesis (Master's) -- Bilkent University, 1999.en_US
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis master’s thesis is a general overview of the practical and ideological implications of the post-1980 transformation of Western European social democratic parties with specific reference to Britain, Germany and Sweden and the reflections of this transformation on Turkish center-left parties. Within this framework, the roots and developmental trend of Western European Social Democracy have been narrated throughout the first chapter of this study to clarify which social democratic principles and policies have changed during the most recent transformation of these parties. In the following chapters, which concentrate on the post-1980 period, the reasons for the electoral erosion of the Northwestern European social democratic parties during the 1980’s and the way they transformed themselves during the 1990’s to stop the decline have been analysed with reference to societal and economic changes on the one hand and to the strategical and structural changes of the parties on the other. The implications of these changes in terms of the shift in the equality principle and the changing function of pragmatism have been highlighted to draw a main profile of the social democratic transformation often referred to as the “Third Way”. The last part of my study focuses on the common and divergent patterns of the Turkish and Western European center-left, both past and present, and compares the current situation of the so-called social democratic parties in Turkey with those of Western Europe presently being conquered by a la mode Third Way currents.en_US
dc.description.degreeM.A.en_US
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityEvcan, Sinanen_US
dc.format.extentvi, 111 pagesen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/18102
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherBilkent Universityen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectSocial Democracyen_US
dc.subjectThird-Wayen_US
dc.subjectGerhard Shroederen_US
dc.subjectTony Blairen_US
dc.subjectEqualityen_US
dc.subjectCHPen_US
dc.subjectDSPen_US
dc.subject.lccJN50 .E92 1999en_US
dc.subject.lcshPolitical parties--Europe.en_US
dc.subject.lcshDemocracy.en_US
dc.subject.lcshSocialism.en_US
dc.titleThe transformation of western European social democracy and its reflections on Turkish center-leften_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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