Democratic backsliding (meaning the state-led debilitation or elimination of the political
institutions sustaining an existing democracy) has changed dramatically since the Cold War …

Abstract Since the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in 2002 Turkey has
undergone double regime transitions. First, tutelary democracy ended; second, a …

Explanations of the robustness of authoritarianism in the Middle East and North Africa have
focused on absent prerequisites of democratization in the region, including weak civil …

For decades after the declaration of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, the Turkish state
promoted the idea of a desired citizen. The Kemalist state treated these citizens as superior …

Turkey's Justice and Development Party (AKP) governments have managed to remove
Kemalism only to replace it with an Islamist nation-building and social-engineering project …

Turkey has redefined its geographical security environment over the last decade by
deepening its engagement with neighboring regions, especially with the Middle East. The …

Based on a within-case comparative analysis of Turkish democratization since the 1920s
and data on elite values, this article develops a general theoretical framework to better …

Religion and Democratization is a comparative study of democratization in Muslim and
Catholic societies. It explores the nature and impact of" religiously friendly democratization" …

Two broad thematic perspectives can be distinguished in the literature that broaches the
revolutions–law nexus. One considers how actors' relations to, and usages of, legal statutes …

“In the past ten to twenty years the global political economy picture has dramatically
changed with the emergence of the economies of Brazil, Russia, India and, notably, China …