De facto presidentialization in Turkey under Erdoğan’s leadership

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Uslu, Hasan Faruk
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The aim of this thesis is to focus on the concept of de facto executive presidentialization, implying that regimes are becoming more presidential in actual practices without changing their constitutional and formal characteristics, in Turkey. While doing so, this thesis sheds lights into the prime ministry and presidency periods of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The main argument is that the Turkish system has been de facto presidentialized at the executive level in both periods. However, there have been little or no meaningful evidence in order to argue for a presidentialization within the broader system.
Turkey, Turkey, Turkey, Turkey
http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12619396/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/25192
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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H. F. Uslu, “De facto presidentialization in Turkey under Erdoğan’s leadership,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2015.
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