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TURKEY TOWARDS COMPETITIVE AUTHORITARIANISM?
“Competitive authoritarianism” is a new concept in Comparative Politics created by Professor Steven Levitsky from Harvard University.[1] Levitsky, together with Lucan Way wrote the book Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War[2] in
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KING’S DILEMMA
The problematic democratic transitions taking place in the Middle Eastern and North African region after the Arab Spring have put a concept created by Samuel Huntington again on the top of academic vocabulary; “King’s
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TURKISH SPRING: OCCUPY GEZİ
A small environmentalist protest that started on 28 May 2013 in order to protect one of the rare green areas in Taksim called “Gezi Park” surprisingly turned into a massive social movement in Turkey
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