The Turkish Deep State: State Consolidation, Civil-Military by Mehtap Sooyler

By Mehtap Sooyler

The deep nation ranks one of the most crucial concerns in Turkish politics. This publication strains its origins and provides an evidence of the emergence and trajectory of the deep nation; the which means and serve as of casual and authoritarian associations within the formal protection zone of a democratic regime; the involvement of the country in equipped crime; armed clash; corruption; and big human rights violations.

This publication applies an leading edge methodological method of notion formation and provides a mid-range idea of deep nation that sheds gentle at the reciprocal courting among the country and political regimes and elaborates at the stipulations for the consolidation of democracy. It lines the path-dependent emergence and trajectory of the deep kingdom from the Ottoman Empire to the present Turkish Republic and its influence on state-society kinfolk. It reads nation formation, consolidation, and breakdown from the viewpoint of this so much resilient phenomenon of Turkish politics. The research additionally situates fresh advancements relating to AKP governments, together with the ecu accession approach, civil-military kinfolk, coup trials, the Kurdish query, and the Gülen circulate of their context in the deep kingdom. furthermore, this case-study deals an analytical framework for cross-regional comparative research of the deep states.

Addressing the lacuna in educational scholarship at the deep kingdom phenomenon in Turkey, this e-book is vital interpreting for college kids and students with an curiosity in democratization, politics and center East Studies.

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Causal possibility refers to the possibility that actors might have chosen other paths leading to different outcomes. Contingency means that one or more factors occur randomly, not explained by the main theory. This might lead to a more unexpected, inefficient outcome than the path(s) that was (were) available before. Closure connotes refers to the increase of the propensity of a particular group of outcomes compared to the range of possible outcomes before the decision was made. 58 Thelen observes that path-dependent causal mechanisms for institutional creation and (re)production are different in political science than in economics.

E. 105 To recapitulate this section, this case study pursues a historical, pathdependent approach to causality, whose specific importance for this case lies in assessing the direction of causality, especially in grasping reciprocal causality. It takes the protracted nature of institution formation, multiple lines of conflict, and small events into account. 3d Methodology 23 depicted in this book are causal chains, which pertain to the emergence of banditry and the autonomy of bureaucrats, cumulative causes such as migration, (sub)urbanization, nation-building, and threshold effects exemplified by revolution.

The relationship between them can involve ontology, causality, and substitution. 104 If causal factors at the basic level are both individually necessary and jointly sufficient, then we identify a “conjuncture of necessary causes”. e. 105 To recapitulate this section, this case study pursues a historical, pathdependent approach to causality, whose specific importance for this case lies in assessing the direction of causality, especially in grasping reciprocal causality. It takes the protracted nature of institution formation, multiple lines of conflict, and small events into account.

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