The major obstacle to the consolidation of democracy has been the lack of horizontal accountability and transgressions of the executive branch of government. Constitutional review, as it is designed to prevent majoritarian tyranny, should be able to reinforce horizontal accountability. Most...

This chapter examines the constitution-making processes in the history of the Turkish Republic to provide an alternative explanation for the authoritarian foundations of Turkish constitutions different from the established explanations based on the center-periphery dichotomy or military tutelage...