Kemalism in Turkish Politics: The Republican People's Party, Secularism and Nationalism 0203884744, 041547504X, 9780415475044, 9780203884744, 9780415612814, 0415612810

Introduction: social democracy, Kemalism and the Republican People's Party -- Kemalism and the left -- Mainstream l

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Kemalism in Turkish Politics: The Republican People's Party, Secularism and Nationalism
0203884744, 041547504X, 9780415475044, 9780203884744, 9780415612814, 0415612810

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Table of contents :
Introduction: social democracy, Kemalism and the Republican People's Party --
Kemalism and the left --
Mainstream left politics: 'democratic left' ideology and the CHP. Appraising centre-left politics 1961-1980. The 12 September coup d'état and its aftermath: the displacement of centre left politics?. Accounting for the weakness of the centre-left in the 1990s: ideological considerations --
A crisis of Kemalist modernity?. Three cases: the Alevis, trade unions and the urban vote --
Revisionism: an anathema for the Turkish centre-left and the principle of 'ideological adaptability'. Conclusion: the CHP: the continued projection of centrist politics?.

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