Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface and acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction: reconsidering parties, power, and social forces; 1 Explaining Turkish party centralism: traditions and trends in the exclusion of local party offices in Mersin and beyond; 2 Explaining the popular appeal and durability of the Justice and Development Party in Turkey; 3 The uses of team rivalry: reconsidering party factionalism in Turkey; 4 How Islamist parties emerge: the case of the National Order Party
5 The collective production of challenge: civil society, parties, and pro-Kurdish politics in Diyarbak1r6 Party penetration of the state: the Nationalist Action Party in the late 1970s; 7 How political dynamics work in professional organizations: the radical left and the Istanbul Bar Association; 8 Being elected as an independent in a party environment; References; Index
Summary
This edited collection looks at how political parties in Turkey actually work, inside and out. Departing from traditional macro-level analyses, the book offers a new sociological approach to the study of political parties, treating them as non-unitary entities composed of many different groups and individuals who both cooperate and compete with one another. The central proposition of the book is that parties must be studied as clusters of relationships in specific locales rather than as unitary 'black boxes.' This ground-up approach provides new insights into the internal workings of
