Purpose In this study the authors aim to comprehensively investigate the determinants of voting behavior in Turkey … choice in Turkey. Originality/value This study contributes to the existing literature by offering a comprehensive … multidimensional analysis of electoral behavior in Turkey, focusing on the JDP/AKP dominance period. The main contribution of this …

Two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999 exposed rampant corruption involving construction and … incompetence. How voters responded to these in the next election held in 2002 is investigated. The fact that different group of …

current policy choice. Deviating from (exogenous) traditional party policy reduces the credibility of a party in the eyes of … voters of both parties. They get either desensitised or over-sensitised in respect to party credibility which alters the … situation before election campaigning into an electoral victory. …