Contemporary Turkish Politics: Challenges to Democratic Consolidation

by Ergun Özbudun

Finding the three breakdowns of democracy and three retransitions to it since 1945 to be a rich laboratory in which to study the process, +zbudun (political science, Bilkent U., Turkey) analyzes the politics of the period. He points out the challenges of promises to departing military governments, a fragmented party system, the rise of political Islam, and the Kurdish separatist movement, but predicts that democracy will continue in a weak form rather than collapse again. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

171 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1835

About the author

Ergun Özbudun was professor of political science and constitutional law