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    Personalistic linkages and persuasion in Turkish party politics
    (Springer, 2017) N/A; Yıldırım, Kerem; PhD Student; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 272085
    Establishing linkages between political elites and voters is fundamental for every political system. In democracies, elite groups are expected to be responsive towards different interest groups and the general public. By representing these groups, elites and decision makers are able to respond to the demands of voters.
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    Press-party parallelism and polarization of news media during an election campaign: the case of the 2011 Turkish elections
    (Sage Publications Inc, 2014) Department of International Relations; Department of Media and Visual Arts; N/A; Çarkoğlu, Ali; Baruh, Lemi; Yıldırım, Kerem; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; PhD Student; Department of International Relations; Department of Media and Visual Arts; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 125588; 36113; 272085
    The aim of this article is to examine press-party parallelism during the 2011 national elections in Turkey. The article reports findings from a content analysis of 9,127 news articles and editorial columns from fifteen newspapers regarding the trajectory of press-party parallelism over the course of the twelve-week national elections campaign period. We focus on two indicators of press-party parallelism: (1) respective "voice" given to the two leading parties, calculated as the ratio of news that quoted sources from the incumbent Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (AKP) to the leading opposition party Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (CHP) and (2) news articles' tones toward AKP and CHP. The newspapers that were content analyzed were first categorized into three groups based on survey data regarding the voting intentions of their readers: (1) a group of "conservative" newspapers whose readers intended to vote primarily for AKP, (2) a group of "mainstream broadsheets," and (3) a group of "opposition" newspapers with a readership base intending to vote for CHP. The findings suggest that over the course of the election campaign, internal pluralism in both conservative and opposition papers declined in terms of voice given to respective parties and tone of news coverage.
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    Election storm in Turkey: what do the results of june and november 2015 elections tell us?
    (Seta Foundation, 2015) Department of International Relations; N/A; Çarkoğlu, Ali; Yıldırım, Kerem; Faculty Member; PhD Student; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 125588; 272085
    This article analyzes the two general elections in 2015 that followed the local and presidential elections a year earlier. These elections illustrate how a predominant party builds its electoral base, loses, and then recovers votes to consolidate its support base. We demonstrate geographical patterns of voting across the country to illustrate how the electoral scene shifted in less than four months. We discuss the power and limitations of performance politics as a force that shapes electoral outcomes in contexts where security concerns override concerns about economic and social policy performance. We argue that lacking or diminished influence of performance politics is inherently harmful for Turkish democracy and given the divided nature of the electorate a consensus building approach to policy reform and constitution writing is more likely to succeed. © 2015, SETA. All rights reserved.
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    Taking sides: determinants of support for a presidential system in Turkey
    (Routledge, 2017) Department of International Relations; Aytaç, Selim Erdem; Çarkoğlu, Ali; Yıldırım, Kerem; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 224278; 125588; N/A
    A key issue on the Turkish political agenda concerns a transition to presidentialism, with a constitutional amendment proposal submitted in December 2016. While the positions of political elites are well known, we lack a detailed analysis of the electorate's views on such a transition. To fill this gap, we present cross-sectional and panel data collected over the period from spring 2015 to winter 2015-16. Partisanship emerges as the key factor shaping views on presidentialism, and reflections of the centre-periphery cleavage in Turkish politics are also visible. The shift of the Turkish nationalist constituency's views in favour of presidentialism has been a significant trend in the aftermath of the June 2015 general election.