FROM INTEGRATIONIST TO SECURITIZED MOVEMENTS: AN INQUIRY ON LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC STATE’S REACTION

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2023-9

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ALTINTAŞ, SEMİH

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This research is conducted to examine the underlying reasons for liberal democratic states’ violations of their citizens’ (liberal) rights and freedoms against their citizens and other individuals living within their sovereign territory. The object of inquiry, within the scope of this research, is the reaction of liberal democratic states to social movements. In relation to the object of inquiry, it has been investigated whether the characteristics that differentiate these liberal democratic states from other political systems, namely being “liberal” and “democratic,” create a significant difference in the state’s response to social movements. For this research, the parties to the state-social movement relationship have been elaborately defined. Subsequently, the reasons that could constitute the basis for the state’s reaction to social movements have been identified and detailed. The following part is case studies, and these have examined the reactions of the liberal democratic state, represented by the states that have representative power for liberal democratic states. The states that have been selected for the representative sample are the United States of America, Britain, and France, and the factors underlying the illiberal reactions of liberal democratic states to social movements have been attempted to be identified by these states’ reactions. The result that has emerged from this study is that the responses of liberal democratic states, like other modern forms of states, are primarily determined by modern state reason (or raison d’état). As a consequence of this one-way influencing relationship, the liberal democratic state, in its reaction to social movements, like other modern state forms, has implemented purely rational measures in order to secure the material circulation of life. Within this framework of rationality and priority, movements whose suppression’s cost in terms of material circulation exceeds the cost of integration have been provided space in the political arena and have been integrated into institutionalized politics, while other movements have been suppressed through brute securitization measures.

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Liberal Democratic State, Social Movements, Modern State Reason, Foucault, Representation Crisis

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/105229

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis