WHO SUPPORTS ERDOGAN? SOCIO-ECONOMIC DIMENSION OF ELECTORAL SUPPORT OF AKP
Journal Title: Medzinárodné vzťahy - Year 2019, Vol 17, Issue 2
Abstract
Almost all academic assessments of Turkey label it a hybrid regime (electoral authoritarianism). The ruling party, the Justice and Development Party (AKP), won every elections since 2002 and is still able to organize relatively free and competitive elections and gain the support of significant part of the voters. This fact raises the questions: Who are these voters? What is the socio-economic environment of the supporters of AKP? Our hypothesis, based on classical theory of interconnection of economic development and social structure, says: The provinces with the lowest level of the socio-economic indicators supported AKP in parliamentary election 2002-2015. To verify the hypothesis we used regression analysis of provincial GDP and electoral support of AKP and as a complementary method we made basic analyses of two types of provinces – with the highest and the lowest support of AKP. The results of our findings reject the basic hypothesis.
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Lukáš Forýtek
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