Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Eligur, Banu

Titel

The Mobilization of Political Islam in Turkey

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

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Quelle

PAIS Index

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This volume seeks to explain why political Islam, which has been part of Turkish politics since the 1970s but on the rise only since the 1990s, has now achieved governing power. Drawing on social movement theory, the book focuses on the dominant form of Islamist activism in Turkey by analyzing the increasing electoral strength of four successive Islamist political parties: the Welfare Party; its successor, the Virtue Party; and the successors of the Virtue Party: the Felicity Party and the Justice and Development Party. This book is based on primary and secondary sources as well as interviews. Tables.