Authoritarianism Debates: The Ongoing Formation of the State ... - 9783031971587

Authoritarianism Debates: The Ongoing Formation of the State in TurkeyAuthor(s): Melehat Kutun\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Palgrave Macmillan\nISBN-13: 9783031971587, 978-3031971587\nSynopsis\nThis methodological, theoretical and empirical contribution focuses on how the classical political-economic and sociological approaches that have long prevailed in studies on the state and authoritarianism reproduce or update themselves in the particularity of Turkey. It considers the strong state tradition thesis and its contemporary versions, new-developmentalism and competitive authoritarianism, to be variants or adaptations of the classical political-economic and sociological approaches, questioning why these new concepts are needed and what is, in their view, \""new\"" since 2011 in the politics of Turkey. It problematises the ways these approaches are reproduced in the contexts of varied countries own peculiarities and Turkeys sp.