Tansel, C.B. orcid.org/0000-0001-7586-459X (2018) Authoritarian neoliberalism and democratic backsliding in Turkey: beyond the narratives of progress. South European Society & Politics, 23 (2). pp. 197-217. ISSN 1360-8746
Abstract
Unpacking the core themes that are discussed in this collection, this article both offers a research agenda to re-analyse Turkey’s ‘authoritarian turn’ and mounts a methodological challenge to the conceptual frameworks that reinforce a strict analytical separation between the ‘economic’ and the ‘political’ factors. The paper problematises the temporal break in scholarly analyses of the AKP period and rejects the argument that the party’s methods of governance have shifted from an earlier ‘democratic’ model – defined by ‘hegemony’ – to an emergent ‘authoritarian’ one. In contrast, by retracing the mechanisms of the state-led reproduction of neoliberalism since 2003, the paper demonstrates that the party’s earlier ‘hegemonic’ activities were also shaped by authoritarian tendencies which manifested at various levels of governance.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 Informa UK limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in South European Society and Politics. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | AKP; authoritarianism; democratic backsliding; neoliberalism; Turkey |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 02 Jul 2018 10:25 |
Last Modified: | 17 Apr 2024 14:53 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/13608746.2018.1479945 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:132697 |