Electoral Manipulation Strategies in Turkey During the AKP Rule
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3176/tr.2024.4.02" target="_blank" >10.3176/tr.2024.4.02</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Electoral Manipulation Strategies in Turkey During the AKP Rule
Original language description
This article analyses strategies of electoral manipulation employed by the regime of Recep Tayyip Erdo & gbreve;an in Turkey. Three long-term methods and three short-term methods are examined, the former being unequal access to resources, media and law, and the latter being election fraud, intimidation of opposition, and vote buying. The text argues that the Turkish government employs primarily long-term strategies, but short-term ones are also present and thus should not be ignored. State resources are being siphoned to municipalities controlled by AKP and regime-friendly businessmen who then provide donations and other favors for the party. State media and media regulators came under the regime's control, resulting in minimal coverage of the opposition in both public and most private media outlets. The takeover of the judiciary and vague definitions in the Anti-Terror law and other laws were used to suppress opposition politicians and journalists. It also allowed the regime to take control of bodies overseeing elections, leading to malpractice. Intimidation of opposition had a form of both legal prosecution and physical attacks and focused primarily on pro-Kurdish parties. Vote buying in Turkey seems mainly to be a form of rewarding voters of the ruling party, not an attempt to persuade swing voters.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
TRAMES : Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences
ISSN
1406-0922
e-ISSN
1736-7514
Volume of the periodical
28
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
EE - ESTONIA
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
331-350
UT code for WoS article
001363289300002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85210874316