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Partisan and apportionment bias in creating a predominant party system

dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of International Relations
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Business Administration
dc.contributor.kuauthorAksen, Deniz
dc.contributor.kuauthorÇarkoğlu, Ali
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteCollege of Administrative Sciences and Economics
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-09T13:19:43Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractMoving beyond the analytical characteristics of apportionment methods or election systems, this article focuses on their outcomes in practice. We illustrate how apportionment and partisan biases working with a high threshold created an electoral environment conducive to the establishment of a predominant party system. We use the historical example of the Turkish experience. We trace the historical development of disproportionality for the entire multi-party elections for the 1950-2015 period. Focusing on the five most recent elections of this period since 2002, we demonstrate how the biases introduced by the apportionment method in use and the 10% threshold have advantaged the leading Justice and Development Party (Adalet ye Kalkinma Partisi, AKP). Our study suggests that a partisan bias favoring AKP still continues to exist at a lower level even after correcting the apportionment and the threshold biases. We underline how these biases form the foundation for a conservative over-representation and emphasize the path-dependent dynamics that keep challengers to the AKP away from the electoral scene, effectively helping to continue its hegemonic position in the system.
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dc.description.publisherscopeInternational
dc.description.sponsoredbyTubitakEuN/A
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dc.description.versionAuthor's final manuscript
dc.description.volume69
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.11.009
dc.identifier.eissn1873-5096
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dc.identifier.filenameinventorynoIR02621
dc.identifier.issn0962-6298
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/3147
dc.identifier.wos461263800005
dc.keywordsApportionment
dc.keywordsPartisan bias
dc.keywordsProportional representation systems
dc.keywordsPredominant parties
dc.keywordsTurkey
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
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dc.relation.ispartofPolitical Geography
dc.relation.urihttp://cdm21054.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/IR/id/9260
dc.subjectGeography
dc.subjectPolitical science
dc.titlePartisan and apportionment bias in creating a predominant party system
dc.typeJournal Article
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