The perils of "Turkish presidentialism"

buir.contributor.authorEsen, Berk
dc.citation.epage53en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber1en_US
dc.citation.spage43en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber52en_US
dc.contributor.authorEsen, Berken_US
dc.contributor.authorGümüşçü, Ş.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-21T16:02:07Z
dc.date.available2019-02-21T16:02:07Z
dc.date.issued2018en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of International Relationsen_US
dc.description.abstractTurkey 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 expense of the legislative branch and concentrates power in the office of the president. Executive aggrandizement will deepen ideological polarization and electoral mobilization by significantly raising the stakes of the game for both the incumbent and the opposition. As such, we posit that the new presidential system will institutionalize the de facto personalism and majoritarian rule that the AKP has hitherto established in recent years. This trend is likely to trigger a transition from a competitive authoritarian to hegemonic electoral authoritarianism in case of Tayyip Erdoǧan's election, thus placing Turkey on par with the strongest executive systems around the globe such as Russia and Venezuela.
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dc.identifier.doi10.1017/rms.2018.10
dc.identifier.issn2151-3481
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/49967
dc.language.isoEnglish
dc.publisherCambridge University Press
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://doi.org/10.1017/rms.2018.10
dc.source.titleReview of Middle East Studiesen_US
dc.subjectAKPen_US
dc.subjectAnd Turkeyen_US
dc.subjectErdoǧanen_US
dc.subjectMajoritarianismen_US
dc.subjectPresidentialismen_US
dc.titleThe perils of "Turkish presidentialism"en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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