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Unpacking the compliance puzzle: the case of Turkey's AKP under EU conditionality
Das Puzzle der Rechtsvorschriften auspacken: der Fall der türkischen AKP unter EU-Konditionalität
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Körperschaftlicher Herausgeber
Freie Universität Berlin, FB Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften, Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft Kolleg-Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe"
Abstract
What explains the EU compliance of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP)? Since it came to power in 2002, AKP has launched legislative reforms in order to meet the European Union’s political membership criteria (i.e., democracy, rule of law, human rights and minority rights). These ref... mehr
What explains the EU compliance of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP)? Since it came to power in 2002, AKP has launched legislative reforms in order to meet the European Union’s political membership criteria (i.e., democracy, rule of law, human rights and minority rights). These reforms are puzzling since they happened in the absence of the two conditions of compliance argued in the literature: (1) credible EU political conditionality, (2) liberal ruling parties in EU candidate states. I argue that AKP’s pro-EU reform agenda is explained by neither a belief in the possibility of membership via democratization (credible conditionality) nor liberal political identity. Rather, democratic measures under AKP are instrumentally induced. Two broad political motivations have guided AKP’s reform commitment: (1) the electoral incentive to please Turkey’s pro-EU membership electorate as well as AKP’s conservative/religious constituency eager to see freedom of religion expanded under EU conditionality, (2) the motive to use reforms to weaken domestic secular forces (i.e. the military and high courts) and “survive” as a party with Islamist roots in Turkey’s secular political system. The paper supports the argument with evidence gathered from original coding data for both conditionality and compliance as well as process-tracing.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Regierungspartei; Menschenrechte; Freiheitsrecht; politische Reform; politische Identität; Demokratisierung; EU-Beitritt; Türkei; EU
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Europapolitik
Methode
deskriptive Studie
Freie Schlagwörter
EU conditionality; AKP; pro-EU reforms; compliance
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2010
Erscheinungsort
Berlin
Seitenangabe
30 S.
Schriftenreihe
KFG Working Paper Series, 14
ISSN
1868-7601
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Deposit Licence - Keine Weiterverbreitung, keine Bearbeitung