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Guardianship and Democracy in Iran and Turkey: Tutelary Consolidation, Popular Contestation

Guardianship and Democracy in Iran and Turkey: Tutelary Consolidation, Popular Contestation - Hardcover

by Karabekir Akkoyunlu
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Availability:In StockContributor:Karabekir AkkoyunluSeries:Edinburgh Studies on Modern TurkeyPublish date:2024-09-30Pages:312
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399506106ISBN-10:1399506102UPC:9781399506106Book Category:Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Comparative Politics, Political Ideologies, WorldBook Topic:Democracy, Middle EasternSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SCZ64AYFFY

This book offers the first comparative study of the foundations, consolidation and contestation of regime guardianship in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Turkey. For decades, the military in Turkey and the clergy in Iran acted as the guardians of Atat?rk and Khomeini's ideological legacies. At the turn of the 21st century rising popular actors in both countries started challenging the tutelary control of the state and society. While in Turkey the clash between the Kemalist guardians and their Islamist-led rivals resulted in a victory for the latter, although not for democracy, in Iran, traditionalist guardians were able to thwart popular challenges to their authority at the expense of the regime's democratic legitimacy. How was guardianship established, consolidated and contested in these republics with seemingly inimical founding ideologies? Why did it unravel in Turkey but survive in the Islamic Republic in the early 2010s? And what do these power struggles and their outcomes tell us about political contestation in tutelary hybrid regimes?

Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399506106ISBN-10:1399506102UPC:9781399506106Book Category:Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Comparative Politics, Political Ideologies, WorldBook Topic:Democracy, Middle EasternSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SCZ64AYFFY

Karabekir Akkoyunlu is a lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS University of London, where he convenes courses on the politics of the Middle East, comparative politics and research methods. His research focuses on democratisation, autocratisation, hybrid regimes, militarism and civil-military relations. Before joining SOAS, he was a lecturer at the Get?lio Vargas Foundation (FGV) in S?o Paulo and a visiting scholar at the Institute of International Relations, University of S?o Paulo in Brazil, and a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz, in Austria. He is the co-editor of the special issue on 'The Limits of Autocratisation: Actors and Institutions of Democratic Resistance and Opposition' (Third World Quarterly, 2024) and of Exit from Democracy: Illiberal Governance in Turkey and Beyond (Routledge, 2018).


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