the most part, prevailing ideas about democracy to the public sphere in Turkey. In doing so, the study aims at displaying …This paper reviews the discourse of democracy employed by members of parliament in the Turkish Grand National Assembly … attributed to democracy and democratisation by the Turkish parliament, assuming that the priorities emphasised in parliamentary …

primarily the value of democracy for Spanish membership, studying archived historical documents opens up the window for an … and devising measures for its improvement suggests that the Spanish lack of democracy could play a lesser role compared to … of a shortcut to democracy and more by the promise of economic profit and more importantly, by the wish to break from …

following Turkey's financial crisis in 2001, but then started moving in the opposite direction in the second half of 2000s. This … deepening in Turkish democracy under the prodding and the guidance of the European Union, and witnessed the waning of the … military's influence and the broadening of effective political participation. As Turkey-European Union relations collapsed and …

This paper provides a close look at Turkey’s experience with democratic backsliding and argues that at different stages … of this process, different structural and agential factors contributed to the decline of democracy in the country. It … Turkey makes us aware that academics must also take into account the role of duplicity in the process, for the full picture …

Since the 1980 military coup in Turkey, much of the history and politics of the country can be described as a struggle … between democracy and authoritarianism. In this accessible account of the country's politics, society and economics, the …, Yeşim Arat and Şevket Pamuk, two of Turkey's leading social scientists, focus on the mutual distrust between the secular and …