CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Secme, Berkin |
|---|---|
| Title | The Small Brothers Among us: Mukhtars and Authoritarianism in Turkey |
| Summary | This thesis aims to explore mukhtars' roles and responsibilities in authoritarianization of Turkey that took place after 2014. It also perpetuates to find out the rationale of the incumbent alliance for pursuing policies on mukhtars and how these sustain and consolidate authoritarianism starting from the local level. With this purpose, in addition to collecting their brochures, in-depth interviews were conducted with mukhtars in 10 neighborhoods of Istanbul with different income levels and political leanings. The findings indicate that the extra-legal position of mukhtars sustain authoritarianism in the local level in both economic and political aspects, particularly in lower income neighborhoods. While the incumbent tries to incorporate them through a new set of policies and political party pressure at the local and bureaucratic levels; mukhtars attempt to retain their autonomous structure. The way political actors deal with this power exchange and the way political contestation takes place demonstrates how state institutions are permeated by the incumbent alliances and are used for their own ends, such as clientelism and various methods for electoral manipulation that sustain authoritarianism in the local and in the bureaucratic levels. |
| Supervisor | Bozoki, Andras Tamas |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/secme_berkin.pdf |
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