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M.A. in Political Science without Thesis

PSIR528

POLITICAL MODERNIZATION IN TURKIYE

Course Code
PSIR528
Semester
Second Term (Spring)
Theory+Practice
3 + 0
ECTS
10
Course TypeCompulsory Course
Course LevelMaster's Degree Without Thesis
Year of Study1
SemesterSecond Term (Spring)
ECTS10
Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

  1. Analyze the political development of Turkey within a historical and theoretical framework.
  2. Explain the transformation of political institutions and actors in Turkish political history.
  3. Contribute critically to discussions on democratization, authoritarianism, and regime change.
  4. Evaluate political developments within their broader social, economic, and cultural contexts.
  5. Develop advanced academic research and analytical skills in political science.
Mode of DeliveryFace to face
PrerequisitesNo
Recommended Optional Programme ComponentsNo recommended optional programme components.
Course DescriptionThis course aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of Turkey?s political development from the late Ottoman period to the present. It seeks to enable students to critically examine the transformation of political institutions, regime changes, civil?military relations, identity politics, and social movements in Turkey through historical and theoretical perspectives.
Course Contents
WEEK TOPICS
1st Week Introduction and Theoretical Framework: The Concept of Political Development and its Critques
2nd Week Transition from Empire to Republic I
3rd Week Transition from Empire to Republic II
4th Week Early Republic and the Single Party Regime (1923?1945)
5th Week Transition to Multiparty Regime and the DP Rule
6th Week 1960 Coup and 1961 Constitution
7th Week The 1970's: Polarization, Instability and Violence
8th Week 1980 Coup: Economic and Political Restructuring
9th Week ANAP between Reform and Change
10th Week The 1990s: Identities and Crises I-II
11th Week Towards the New Turkey (2002?2010)
12th Week De-democratization Process I (2011-2017)
13th Week De-democratization Process II (2017-)
14th Week Formal and Social Opposition (2002-)
Recommended or Required ReadingJan Nederveen Pieterse, Development Theory Deconstructions/Reconstructions, Sage: London, 2010.
Robert C. Bartlett, ?On The Decline of Contemporary Political Development Studies,? Review of Politics, 58, 2 (1996): 269-298.
Nathan Andrews & Sylvia Bawa, ?A Post-development Hoax? (Re)-examining the Past, Present and Future of Development Studies,? Third World Quarterly, 35, 6 (2014): 922-938.
Stuart Corbridge, ?The (Im)possibility of Development Studies,? Economy and Society, 36, 2 (2007), pp. 179-211.
Kemal Karpat, der. Osmanlı ve Dünya, Ufuk: İstanbul, 2001.
Dietrich Jung and Wolfango Piccoli, Turkey at the Crossroads, Zed Books: London & New York: 2001.
Kemal Karpat, Türk Demokrasi Tarihi, Timaş: İstanbul, 2010.
Metin Heper and Jacob Landau, eds., Political Parties and Democracy in Turkey (I.B.Tauris: London, 1991).
Ergun Ozbudun, ed., Perspectives on Democracy in Turkey (Turkish Political Science Association: Ankara, 1988).
C. Schick ve E. Ahmet Tonak, der., Geçiş Sürecinde Türkiye (Belge Yayınları: İstanbul, 2006).
İlkay Sunar, Demokrasi: Türkiye Serüveni (Doruk: İstanbul, 2010).
George Harris, "The Causes of the 1960 Revolution in Turkey," The Middle East Journal, 24 (1970), pp. 438-454.
Menderes Çınar, ?Arızaları ve Açılımlarıyla Türkiye Demokrasi Tarihi,? Demokrasi: Kurum, Kuram, Süreç, der. İdem (İletişim: İstanbul, 2023).
Tanel Demirel, Adalet Partisi: İdeoloji ve Politika, (İstanbul: İletişim, 2004), pp. 79-145.
Feroz Ahmad, Turkish Experiment in Democracy: 1950-1975 (C. Hurst &Company: London, 1977)
Emin Alper, ?Milliyetçilik-Modernleşme Geriliminde `ortanın solu? ve Ecevit,? Toplum ve Bilim, 93 (2002), pp. 110-141.
İpek Gencel Sezgin, ?How Islamist Parties Emerge: The Case of National Order Party,? in Negotiating Political in Turkey: Breaking Up the Party (Routledge: London, 2013), pp. 77-98.
Ilkay Sunar and Sabri Sayari, ?Democracy in Turkey: Problems and Prospects? in Guillermo O? Donnell et. al., eds. Transitions from Authoritarian Rule - Prospects for Democracy (The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore and London, 1986), pp. 165-186.
Ergun Ozbudun, Contemporary Turkish Politics, (Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2000).
Heper et al, eds., Turkey and the West: Changing Political and Cultural Identities (I.B. Tauris&co: London, 1994), 15-31
Morton Abromowitz, ed, Turkey?s Transformation and American Policy (The Century Foundation Press: New York, 2000).
Derya Kömürcü, ?Geçmişle Gelecek Arasında Bir Alternatif Arayışı: Sosyal Demokrat Halkçı Parti,? YDÜ Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, II, 2 (2009): 2-32.
Soli Özel, ?After Tsunami,? Journal of Democracy, 14, 2 (April, 2003): 80-94.
Sultan Tepe, ?Turkey?s AKP: A Model `Muslim-Democrat Party?? Journal of Democracy, 16, 3 (2005), pp. 69-81.
Murat Somer, ?Siyasal rejim nedir, ne değildir?: Kavram karmaşası kademeli otokratikleşmenin içsel bir mekanizması olabilir mi?,? Toplum ve Bilim, 158 (2022): 6-28
Ilter Turan, ?Old Soldiers Never Die: The Republican People?s Party of Turkey,? South European Society and Politics, 11 (3/4) 2006, pp. 559-578.
Derya Kömürcü, ?Kılıçdaroğlu Sonrası CHP,? İktisat Dergisi, (Haziran, 2011), pp. 37-47.
Umit Cizre & Menderes Çınar, ?Turkey 2003: Kemalism, Islamism and Politics in the Light of the February 28 Process,? South Atlantic Quarterly, 102, 2/3 (Spring/Summer 2003): 309-332.
Ziya Öniş, ?Globalization, Democratization and Far Right: The Nationalist Action Party in Critical Perspective,? Democratization, 10, 1 (2003): 27-52.
Ayşe Zarakol, After Defeat: How the East Learned to live with the West, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011, pp. 1-12.
Esra Özyürek, Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey, Duke University Press: Durham, 2006.
Ümit Cizre, ?Ideology, Context and Interest: the Turkish Military,? in Reşat Kasaba (ed.), The Cambridge History of Turkey, Vol 4. Cambridge University Press: NY, 2008.
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
  • Lecture
  • Discussion
  • Presentation
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Quantity Percentage (%)
Assignment 3 30
Project 1 40
Attendance 1 10
Presentation of Book 1 20
Presentation of Article 1 20
Total(%) 100
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 100
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 0
Total(%) 100
ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload
Activities Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam 1 1 1
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work 14 4 56
Preparation for Final exam 1 60 60
Course hours 14 3 42
Preparation for Midterm exam 1 50 50
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam 1 3 3
Homework 3 30 90
Total Work Load302
Total Work Load / 30 (h)10.06
ECTS Credit of the Course10
Language of InstructionTurkish
Work Placement(s)No

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