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Kemalism in Turkish Politics : the Republican People's Party, Secularism and Nationalism.

This book is concerned with Turkey?s political evolution and in particular why a social democratic alternative has never fully developed. Sinan Ciddi examines the roles of nationalism and the political establishment and the role of Kemalist ideology.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ciddi, Sinan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2008.
Colección:Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics, 10.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Note on spellings; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Social democracy, Kemalism and the Republican People's Party; Part I The formative aspects of Turkish social democracy; 1 Kemalism and the left; 2 Mainstream left politics: 'Democratic left' ideology and the CHP; 3 Appraising centre-left politics 1961-1980; 4 The 12 September coup d'état and its aftermath: The displacement of centre left politics?; Part II The electoral weakness of leftism after the post-Cold War period.
  • 5 Accounting for the weakness of the centre-left in the 1990s: Ideological considerations6 A crisis of Kemalist modernity?; 7 Three cases: The Alevis, trade unions and the urban vote; 8 Revisionism: An anathema for the Turkish centre-left and the principle of 'ideological adaptability'; Conclusion: The CHP: the continued projection of centrist politics?; Notes; Bibliography; Index.