Letter from Ankara

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dc.citation.issueNumber3en_US
dc.citation.spage359en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber8en_US
dc.contributor.authorCinar, M. U.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-13T13:06:46Z
dc.date.available2019-02-13T13:06:46Z
dc.date.issued2015-09en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of Political Science and Public Administrationen_US
dc.description.abstractThis article focuses on the relationship between discourses of economic development and prospects for democracy in Turkey. It does so by tracing the political discourse of highranking government officials and journalists close to them to show how they use arguments for economic development as a tool to politically legitimise interventions into liberal democracy. I first illustrate the dangers caused by the discourse surrounding economic development to democracy by looking at the Gezi protests. I show how demands for pluralism and respect for different lifestyles—which are crucial aspects of liberal democracy—were instead framed by the government as chaos created by agents of the so-called ‘interest rate lobby’ and provocations caused by those who want to stop Turkey’s economic development. I analyse Gezi in comparative perspective with presidentialism debates and the corruption scandal of December 2013. In these cases too, demands for democracy, transparency, checks and balances are pitted against economic development. Citizens are made to choose between a vaguely defined notion of economic development and democratisationen_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1467-923X.12174en_US
dc.identifier.eissn1467-923X
dc.identifier.issn0032-3179
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/49450
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherWiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.en_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.12174en_US
dc.source.titleThe Political Quarterlyen_US
dc.subjectDemocracyen_US
dc.subjectEconomic developmenten_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.subjectGezien_US
dc.subjectPresidentialismen_US
dc.titleLetter from Ankaraen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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