7 Lessons from Turkey’s Effort to Beat a Populist Autocrat
Three factors explain Erdogan’s stronger-than-expected first-round performance.
Murat Somer is a professor of political science at Koç University in Istanbul and an expert on political polarization, religious and secular politics, ethnic conflict, autocratization, and democratization in Turkey and around the world.
Three factors explain Erdogan’s stronger-than-expected first-round performance.
To better understand the various paths by which societies might overcome or reduce political divisions, this working paper examines perniciously polarized countries that have successfully depolarized, at least for a time.