Studies of Electoral Behavior in Turkey

Studies of Electoral Behavior in TurkeyThis chapter reviews major works on electoral behavior in Turkey in order to determine which theoretical frameworks are valid for Turkey and what indigenous contexts should be taken into account.This review encompasses, more broadly, electoral behavior in Turkey not only because of the dearth of research on electoral change in Turkey but also because of the necessity to elucidate behavioral characteristics of the Turkish electorate that do not necessarily conform to the general theories of electoral behavior.Most of the literature on electoral behavior in Turkey either explicitly or implicitly draws on one of the four theoretical frameworks introduced in the foregoing literature review.