AKP Since Gezi Park

Susannah Verney is Associate Professor of European Integration and European Politics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, and co-Editor of South European Society and Politics.Anna Bosco is Associate Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Florence, Italy, and co-Editor of South European Society and Politics.Senem Aydın-Düzgit is Associate Professor of International Relations at Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey, and Associate Editor of South European Society and Politics.

• 1. Introduction – The AKP on the Road to Presidentialism Changing the System 2. AKP at the Crossroads: Erdoğan’s Majoritarian Drift 3. Islamisation of Turkey under the AKP Rule: Empowering Family, Faith and Charity 4. An Unfinished Grassroots Populism: The Gezi Park Protests in Turkey and their Aftermath 5. Emergence of a Dominant Party System after Multipartyism: Theoretical Implications from the Case of the AKP in Turkey Maintaining Electoral Predominance 6. Plus Ça Change Plus C’est le Même Chose: Consolidation of the AKP’s Predominance in the March 2014 Local Elections in Turkey 7. Turkish Popular Presidential Elections: Deepening Legitimacy Issues and Looming Regime Change 8. Winds of Change? The June 2015 Parliamentary Elections in Turkey 9. Back to a Predominant Party System: The November 2015 Snap Election in Turkey Moving to Presidentialism 10. Taking Sides: Determinants of Support for a Presidential System in Turkey 11. A Small Yes for Presidentialism: The Turkish Constitutional Referendum of April 2017