Özhan Demirkol

Ömer Halisdemir University · Political Science

Introduction of presidential system in Turkey after the 2017 constitutional referendum resulted with the abolishment of prime ministry and the council of ministers. Much has been written on the legal characteristics of council of ministries within the context of executive-legislative relations (Gözler, 2000; Özbudun, 2011). Since ministers in parli...

The relationship between legislative and executive has been an important subject of academic studies. However, we have not found any studies to provide numerical data for comparative analysis. This study is an attempt to increase the validity of Krouwel’s ‘Presidentialism-Parliamentarism Scale’ to explain the developments in presidential powers bet...

Gradual increase of votes for minor parties have led the academicians in Europe to focus on minor parties since the 1970s. A similar interest is evident on minor Turkish parties during the times of party system changes in Turkey. Existing studies on Turkish minor parties have analyzed these parties within the context of party system or provided det...

Developments in information and communication technologies were expected to facilitate the democratization process in authoritarian regimes. However, certain authoritarian regimes adapted to these developments in order to consolidate their rule. By reviewing the relevant literature and analyzing pro-government Twitter accounts, this work demonstrat...

History of Turkish Republic is populated with frequent emergence of new parties. However, only the electorally viable parties have attracted scholarly attention. On the other hand, a few number of studies that provided data on new party formation lost their actuality. Tis study aims to fll this gap by compiling data on ofcially registered Turkish p...

Although the literature on party politics has significantly advanced both methodologically and theoretically in recent years, the study of political parties in Turkey has been noticeably disconnected and lacking from such conversations. This book evaluates well-established theories and trends in exiting party politics literature and relates them to...

Political parties are indispensable elements of democratic systems. In addition to their functions of interest articulation and aggregation, they play a key role in the preparation of policies for different sectors, including tourism. This work analyzes electoral programs of the four parties that passed the 10% national threshold in the two Turkish...

Avrupa Birliği ile müzakerelerin başlamasından itibaren Türkiye, üyelik süreci çerçevesinde turizm politikalarını Avrupa Birliği turizm politikaları çerçevesinde gözden geçirmektedir. Bu durum Türk akademisyen ve araştırmacıları Avrupa Birliği ve Türk turizm politikalarında yaşanan değişimleri araştırmaya yöneltmiştir. 1990'ların ikinci yarısından...

The argument of this paper is that the new foreign policy orientation of Turkey under the AKP (Justice and Development Party) government is a constitutive component of a new nationalist project, constructed and carried out by the AKP over the last decade. The article expounds the ways in which the AKP has reformulated the notions of nation, nationa...

Since the opening of the negotiations between European Union and Turkey in 2005, Turkey has reformulated its tourism policy within the context of the accession process. Although there are various studies on the changes in Turkish tourism policy, few dealt with the developments that have taken part in 2014. Then what are the recent developments in t...

This study offers the first systematic analysis of party splits in Turkish electoral politics. It first explores party splits from major parties since the late 1940s before focusing on splits from three Turkish centre-right parties in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1990s. This article finds no detectable patterns between the entry costs measured by dispropo...