İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi / Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences

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    Competitive Yet Unfair: May 2023 Elections And Authoritarian Resilience In Turkey
    (Başkent Üniversitesi İktisadi İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, 2024-04-20) Esen, Berk; Gumuscu, Sebnem; Yavuzyilmaz, Hakan
    On May 14, Turkish voters headed to the polls to vote for presidential and parliamentary elections. This was the most challenging race yet for authoritarian populist Erdogan, as the ongoing economic crisis and deadly earthquakes severely diminished his performance legitimacy. Moreover, the opposition parties united against his regime by rallying behind a joint presidential candidate. However, Erdogan turned the tables on the opposition and won the presidential race for a third consecutive term while his electoral bloc secured a majority in the parliament. This paper analyses the context and results of Turkey's 2023 twin elections. We highlight the features of the competitive authoritarian regime, Erdogan's religio-nationalist electoral strategy, and the opposition's fragile state and weak strategy to explain Erdogan's electoral resilience.
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    Dissident Women's Organizations as A Counter-Hegemonic Actor in Turkey
    (TURKISH STUDIES, 2024) Gunduz, Melisa; Gencoglu, Funda
    Could the Turkish women's movement, which has a strong reaction mechanism, be a constituent actor of counter-hegemony? The main reasons behind this question are the women's movement's deep-rooted history and its openness to combine theory with practice/action. When looked from the Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau's perspective of radical democracy theory, the women's movement appears to have a considerable potential of deciphering the existing hegemony and articulating the social demands which exclude and are excluded by the present-day hegemony in Turkey. This article tries to understand how women's movement in Turkey conceptualizes the existing power relations that constitute the neoliberal religio-conservative hegemony and how it responds to it.