Negotiating Political Power in Turkey

Nicole F. Watts is an associate professor in the department of political science at San Francisco State University. Her research concerns state-society relations, social movements, and dissent among the Kurds in Turkey and in Iraq. Her publications include Activists in Office: Kurdish Politics and Protest in Turkey (Univ. of Washington Press, 2010) and many journal articles and book chapters.Elise Massicard is Permanent Research Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, France, and Director of the Observatoire de la Vie Politique turque at the Institut Français des Études Anatoliennes in Istanbul. Her work focuses on the political sociology of contemporary Turkey.

• Introduction: Reconsidering Parties, Power, and Social Forces - Élise Massicard and Nicole F. Watts 1 Explaining Turkish Party Centralism: Traditions and Trends in the Exclusion of Local Party Offices in Mersin and beyond - S. Ulaş Bayraktar and Cemal Altan 2 Explaining the Popular Appeal and Durability of the Justice and Development Party in Turkey - Menderes Çınar 3 The Uses of Team Rivalry: Reconsidering Party Factionalism in Turkey - Élise Massicard 4 How Islamist Parties Emerge: The Case of the National Order Party - İpek Gencel Sezgin 5 The Collective Production of Challenge: Civil Society, Parties, and pro-Kurdish Politics in Diyarbakır - Gilles Dorronsoro and Nicole F. Watts 6 Party Penetration of the State: The Nationalist Action Party in the late 1970s - Benjamin Gourisse 7 How Political Dynamics Work in Professional Organizations: The Radical Left and the Istanbul Bar Association - Emre Öngün and Manar Hassan 8 Being Elected as an Independent in a Party Environment - İlter Turan

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