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Record Nr.

UNINA9910960825503321

Autore

Kalaycoglu Ersin

Titolo

Turkish Dynamics : Bridge Across Troubled Lands / / by E. Kalaycioglu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2005

ISBN

9786611364106

9781281364104

128136410X

9781403978660

1403978662

Edizione

[1st ed. 2005.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages) : maps

Collana

Middle East in Focus, , 2945-7041

Disciplina

956.1/02

Soggetti

Europe - Politics and government

Middle East - Politics and government

Religion and sociology

Religion

Political science

European Politics

Middle Eastern Politics

Sociology of Religion

Political Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : change and stability -- 1. From collapse to liberation -- 2. Founding the republic and the cultural revolution (1923-1946) -- 3. Democracy at work and at risk (1946-1960) -- 4. The second republic (1961-1980) -- 5. The third republic (1980- ) -- 6. Governance, change, and risk -- Conclusion : making a bridge functional.

Sommario/riassunto

A leading Turkish political scientist enhances understanding of the interactions of liberal democracy with longstanding cultural cleavages along secular-religious lines, ethnicity, and social class. This chronological narrative focuses on how the process of urbanization and industrialization has led to social mobilization and population



movements.