Corporatist Ideology in Kemalist Turkey : Progress or Order? Hardback
by Taha Parla, Andrew Davison
Part of the Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East series
Hardback
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This book provides an informed analysis of the ideological content of Kemalism - the name given to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's party's political thought and practice - and the persistently official and semi-official, hegemonic ideology of the Turkish Republic, formally founded in 1923.
Through a textual and contextual analysis of Kemalism in Atarurk's speeches and the official documents of the ruling Republican People's Party, Taha Parla and Andrew Davison offer fresh interpretations of the political, economic, social, and cultural goals of the Kemalist version of Turkish nationalism.
They also provide an astute analysis of the power and authority that Araturk and his collegues believed were necessary to achieve their implementation, and of the institutions created in that process.
Kemalism as a democratizing and secularizing framework for modern governance is debated by illuminating Kemalism's emphatic and self-conscious, corporatist ideological core.
The authors show how Kemalism's conceptions of society, national identity, the relationship between the state and Islam, and other fundamental political dynamics require a rethinking of its democratic, secular, and modernist reputation, and its prospects for, and barriers to, a more democratic Turkey within the Kemalist legacy.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:332 pages
- Publisher:Syracuse University Press
- Publication Date:30/11/2004
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- ISBN:9780815630548
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:332 pages
- Publisher:Syracuse University Press
- Publication Date:30/11/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780815630548
