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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782677703321

Autore

Ciddi Sinan

Titolo

Kemalism in Turkish politics : the Republican People's Party, secularism and nationalism / / Sinan Ciddi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2009

ISBN

1-134-02559-9

1-281-97725-X

9786611977252

0-203-88474-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 pages)

Collana

Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics

Disciplina

320.509561

324.2561/072

324.2561072

Soggetti

Kemalism

Secularism - Turkey

Nationalism - Turkey

Turkey Politics and government 1918-1960

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [182]-193) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 considerations; 6 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



Sommario/riassunto

This book is concerned with Turkey's political evolution, the role of Kemalism, and why a social democratic alternative has never fully developed. Concentrating on the electoral weaknesses of the Turkish centre-left, represented by the Republican People's Party (CHP), Sinan Ciddi examines the roles of nationalism and the political establishment and the role of Kemalist ideology.