AKP at the Crossroads: Erdoǧan's Majoritarian Drift

South European Society and Politics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 155-167

  Özbudun, Ergun ^a  

^a ISTANBUL SEHIR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Authoritarianism; Conservatism; Delegative Democracies; Gezi Park; Islamism; Majoritarianism; Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905742837     PISSN: 13608746     EISSN: 17439612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.920571     Document Type: Article

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