Table of Contents

Foreword
Daron Acemoglu

1. The Study of Politics in Turkey: New Horizons and Perennial Pitfalls
Günes Murat Tezcür

Part I: Political Regime
2. Democratization Theories and Turkey
Ekrem Karakoç
3. Ruling Ideologies in Modern Turkey
Kerem Öktem
4. Constitutionalism in Turkey
Asli Ü. Bâli
5. Civil-Military Relations and the Demise of Turkish Democracy
Nil S. Satana and Burak Bilgehan Özpek
6. Capturing Secularism in Turkey: The Ease of Comparison
Murat Akan

Part II: Political Economy
7. The Political Economy of Turkey since the End of World War II
Sevket Pamuk
8. Neoliberal Politics in Turkey
Sinan Erensü and Yahya M. Madra
9. The Politics of Welfare in Turkey
Erdem Yörük
10. The Political Economy of Environmental Policymaking in Turkey: A Vicious Cycle
Fikret Adaman, Bengi Akbulut, and Murat Arsel
11. The Politics of Energy in Turkey: Running Engines on Geopolitical, Discursive, and Coercive Power
Begüm Özkaynak, Ethemcan Turhan, and Cem Iskender Aydin
12. The Contemporary Politics of Health in Turkey: Diverse Actors, Competing Frames, and Uneven Policies
Volkan Yilmaz

Part III: Leaders, Parties, and Voters
13. Populism in Turkey: Historical and Contemporary Patterns
Yüksel Taskin
14. Old and New Polarizations and Failed Democratizations in Turkey
Murat Somer
15. Economic Voting during the AKP Era in Turkey
S. Erdem Aytaç
16. Party Organizations in Turkey and Their Consequences for Democracy
Melis G. Laebens
17. The Evolution of Conventional Political Participation in Turkey
Ersin Kalaycioglu

Part IV: Politics of Identity
18. Symbolic Politics and Contention in the Turkish Republic
Senem Aslan
19. Islamist Activism in Turkey
Menderes Çinar
20. The Kurdish Movement in Turkey: Understanding Everyday Perceptions and Experiences
Dilan Okcuoglu
21. The Transnational Mobilization of the Alevis of Turkey: From Invisibility to the Struggle for Equality
Ceren Lord
22. Politics of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Turkey: Limits and Prospects of Populism
Fatih Resul Kilinç and Sule Toktas

Part V: Turkey and the World
23. A Theoretical Account of Turkish Foreign Policy under the AKP
Tarik Oguzlu
24. US-Turkey Relations since WWII: From Alliance to Transactionalism
Serhat Güvenç and Soli Özel
25. Turkey and Europe: Historical Asynchronicities and Perceptual Asymmetries
Hakan Yilmaz
26. Turkey's Foreign Policy in the Middle East: An Identity Perspective
Lisel Hintz
27. Turkey and Russia: Historical Patterns and Contemporary Trends in Bilateral Relations
Evren Balta and Mitat Çelikpala

Part VI: Civil Society and Activism
28. Citizenship and Protest Behavior in Turkey
Ayhan Kaya
29. Gender Politics and the Struggle for Equality in Turkey
Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat
30. Human Rights Organizations in Turkey
Basak Çali
31. Truth, Justice, and Commemoration Initiatives in Turkey
Onur Bakiner
32. The Politics of Media in Turkey: Chronicle of a Stillborn Media System
Sarphan Uzunoglu

Part VII: Politics of Art
33. The AKP's Rhetoric of Rule in Turkey: Political Melodramas of Conspiracy from "Ergenekon" to "Mastermind"
Erdag Göknar
34. The Transformation of Political Cinema in Turkey since the 1960s: A Change of Discourse
Zeynep Çetin-Erus and M. Elif Demoglu
35. Political Music in Turkey: The Birth and Diversification of Dissident and Conformist Music (1920-2000)
Mustafa Avci

About the Author

Günes Murat Tezcür is the Jalal Talabani Chair and Professor at the School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs at the University of Central Florida. He is also the founder of UCF's Kurdish Political Studies Program, the first and only program of its kind in North America. He is a social scientist studying political violence, religious politics, democratization, and human security with a focus on Iranian, Kurdish, and Turkish human geography.