Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14365/1713
Title: Party Dissolutions and Democratic Consolidation: the Turkish Case
Authors: Guney, Aylin
Baskan, Filiz
Keywords: Party Dissolution
Democratic Consolidation
Ethnically Oriented Parties: Religiously Oriented Parties
Turkey
Constitutional Court
Turkey
Publisher: Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd
Abstract: Political party competition constitutes an important component of democratic consolidation. In this respect, party dissolutions are generally regarded as impeding consolidation of democracies. This study addresses the relationship between party dissolutions and democratic consolidation, and offers an analysis of recent dissolutions of religiously and ethnically oriented political parties in Turkey. Drawing on Geoffrey Pridham's distinction between 'negative' and 'positive' democratic consolidation, the study concludes that the dissolutions of religiously oriented parties have contributed to the former while the dissolutions of ethnically oriented political parties have not. Meanwhile, the possible dissolution of the Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (AKP), representing 46.6 per cent of the population, would constitute a challenge to 'positive' democratic consolidation.
URI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13608740802346569
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14365/1713
ISSN: 1360-8746
1743-9612
Appears in Collections:WoS İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / WoS Indexed Publications Collection

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