Boiling the Frog
<p>In the wake of Turkey’s recent presidential elections, previous blogposts objected to characterizing authoritarian regimes such as Turkey, Hungary and India as ‘competitive’ solely by virtue of regular elections, which are formally free but fundamentally unfair. However, this blog...
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Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog GmbH
2023-06-01
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| description | <p>In the wake of Turkey’s recent presidential elections, previous blogposts objected to characterizing authoritarian regimes such as Turkey, Hungary and India as ‘competitive’ solely by virtue of regular elections, which are formally free but fundamentally unfair. However, this blogpost argues that the prior ones missed the main problem in Turkey: The playing field in Turkey is not only “massively tilted in favor of Erdogan” now; it has always been tilted in favor of the majority – long before Erdoğan. This blogpost discusses the slow death of Turkish electoral competitiveness. First, I describe the politico-legal context that enabled Erdogan’s rise. Second, I contrast the developments in Turkey regarding election competitiveness to European legal standards and strikingly late political demands.</p>
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| spelling | doaj.art-8a5db1517fb544aea309545cf5bb44d32023-06-02T07:05:52ZdeuMax Steinbeis Verfassungsblog GmbHVerfassungsblog2366-70442023-06-012366-7044Boiling the FrogDilek Kurban<p>In the wake of Turkey’s recent presidential elections, previous blogposts objected to characterizing authoritarian regimes such as Turkey, Hungary and India as ‘competitive’ solely by virtue of regular elections, which are formally free but fundamentally unfair. However, this blogpost argues that the prior ones missed the main problem in Turkey: The playing field in Turkey is not only “massively tilted in favor of Erdogan” now; it has always been tilted in favor of the majority – long before Erdoğan. This blogpost discusses the slow death of Turkish electoral competitiveness. First, I describe the politico-legal context that enabled Erdogan’s rise. Second, I contrast the developments in Turkey regarding election competitiveness to European legal standards and strikingly late political demands.</p> https://verfassungsblog.de/boiling-the-frog/Democratic Backsliding, election, Electoral threshold, Erdogan |
| spellingShingle | Dilek Kurban Boiling the Frog Verfassungsblog Democratic Backsliding, election, Electoral threshold, Erdogan |
| title | Boiling the Frog |
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| title_short | Boiling the Frog |
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| topic | Democratic Backsliding, election, Electoral threshold, Erdogan |
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