IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/cjsbxx/v24y2022i2p323-343.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Forming Pre-Electoral Coalitions in Competitive Authoritarian Contexts: The Case of the 2018 Parliamentary Elections in Turkey

Author

Listed:
  • Filiz Başkan
  • Selin Bengi Gümrükçü
  • F. Orkunt Canyaş

Abstract

In competitive authoritarian regimes, forming a pre-electoral coalition (PEC) provides a mean for opposition parties to defeat the incumbent party. In Turkey, the ruling Justice and Development Party initiated a PEC by forming the People’s Alliance with two other parties. Like the opposition in other competitive authoritarian regimes, Turkey’s opposition parties also formed a PEC, namely the Nation Alliance. Looking at the political affinity of these parties by using their election manifestos and Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES) data, the paper argues that while the People’s Alliance was formed by ideologically close parties, the Nation Alliance was composed of ideologically distant parties, whose main aim, under a competitive authoritarian regime, was to prevent the incumbent from gaining a parliamentary majority.

Suggested Citation

  • Filiz Başkan & Selin Bengi Gümrükçü & F. Orkunt Canyaş, 2022. "Forming Pre-Electoral Coalitions in Competitive Authoritarian Contexts: The Case of the 2018 Parliamentary Elections in Turkey," Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(2), pages 323-343, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:2:p:323-343
    DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.2006006
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.2006006
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/19448953.2021.2006006?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:2:p:323-343. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/cjsb .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.