Factors driving the political polarization process in Turkey: Relative effects of a number of determinants ranging from economic voting behavior to collective trauma effects

2012-02-01
Yılmaz, Cengiz
Özdemir, Özlem
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Factors driving the political polarization process in Turkey: Relative effects of a number of determinants ranging from economic voting behavior to collective trauma effects.
Voter behavior, Ethnic identification, Collective trauma, Economic voting, Turkey
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/45939
IKTISAT ISLETME VE FINANS
Department of Business Administration, Article

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C. Yılmaz and Ö. Özdemir, “Factors driving the political polarization process in Turkey: Relative effects of a number of determinants ranging from economic voting behavior to collective trauma effects,” IKTISAT ISLETME VE FINANS, pp. 9–39, 2012, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/45939.
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