CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Cüngürlü, Fatih Muhammet |
|---|---|
| Title | Autocratic Consolidation in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes Through Party-Social Movement Alliances |
| Summary | There have been a plethora of studies on social movements and their relations to political parties. The social movements literature explains how social movements foster democratization by promoting civil rights and liberties. For this thesis, I analyzed social movements in an effort to explain how political parties in competitive authoritarian regimes could utilize social movements to increase their control over society instead of social movements helps the democratization of the country. Social movements are the non-institutional aspect of political representation. In other words, citizens use social movements to voice their demands, which are not represented by institutional politics. Therefore, this thesis argues that, as in the case of other democratic institutions within a competitive authoritarian regime, social movements must be controlled and absorbed by the ruling party for full-fledged control over society. Hungary and Turkey have been used as case studies as they are countries that followed a similar political trajectory when it comes to experiencing a certain level of democratization and then ruled by a right-wing party that corrupted the country’s institutions to get a firmer grip on power. My findings indicate that in both cases, despite their differences in their political structure, historical background, and culture, both government parties of the respective countries use social movements to increase their hegemony over society. |
| Supervisor | Greskovits, Béla |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/cungurlu_fatih.pdf |
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