Research Article

The Social Democratic Populist Party: Revisiting the Recent Past of Social Democracy in Turkey

Volume: 75 Number: 1 February 20, 2020
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The Social Democratic Populist Party: Revisiting the Recent Past of Social Democracy in Turkey

Abstract

This study aims to examine the case of the Social Democratic Populist Party (Sosyaldemokrat Halkçı Parti – SHP) that functioned as the major representative of the social democratic ideology in Turkey under highly extraordinary conditions of the post-1980 coup political atmosphere until 1995. Realizing the necessity of taking this critically important phase in the evolution of Turkish social democratic thought into account, the major argument of this paper is that even if the SHP spent a remarkable amount of effort for achieving its ultimate target of evolving into a European-style, ‘genuine’ social democratic party, it ultimately failed to reach this end due to three interrelated factors, such as changing political realities in the domestic and European contexts during the 1980s, the intra-party turmoil within the SHP, and the poor performance of the SHP in power. In relation to this core argument, the ideological decline of the SHP is claimed to have a direct impact on the successive electoral defeats and ideological drifts of the CHP, as its successor, in the following years.

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References

  1. Referans 1 Ayata, Sencer and Ayşe Güneş-Ayata (2007), “The Center-Left Parties in Turkey”, Turkish Studies, 8 (2): 211-232.

Details

Primary Language

English

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Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

February 20, 2020

Submission Date

February 1, 2018

Acceptance Date

July 23, 2018

Published in Issue

Year 2020 Volume: 75 Number: 1

APA
Tekiner, U. (2020). The Social Democratic Populist Party: Revisiting the Recent Past of Social Democracy in Turkey. Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi, 75(1), 279-314. https://doi.org/10.33630/ausbf.587411
AMA
1.Tekiner U. The Social Democratic Populist Party: Revisiting the Recent Past of Social Democracy in Turkey. SBF Dergisi. 2020;75(1):279-314. doi:10.33630/ausbf.587411
Chicago
Tekiner, Uğur. 2020. “The Social Democratic Populist Party: Revisiting the Recent Past of Social Democracy in Turkey”. Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi 75 (1): 279-314. https://doi.org/10.33630/ausbf.587411.
EndNote
Tekiner U (February 1, 2020) The Social Democratic Populist Party: Revisiting the Recent Past of Social Democracy in Turkey. Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi 75 1 279–314.
IEEE
[1]U. Tekiner, “The Social Democratic Populist Party: Revisiting the Recent Past of Social Democracy in Turkey”, SBF Dergisi, vol. 75, no. 1, pp. 279–314, Feb. 2020, doi: 10.33630/ausbf.587411.
ISNAD
Tekiner, Uğur. “The Social Democratic Populist Party: Revisiting the Recent Past of Social Democracy in Turkey”. Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi 75/1 (February 1, 2020): 279-314. https://doi.org/10.33630/ausbf.587411.
JAMA
1.Tekiner U. The Social Democratic Populist Party: Revisiting the Recent Past of Social Democracy in Turkey. SBF Dergisi. 2020;75:279–314.
MLA
Tekiner, Uğur. “The Social Democratic Populist Party: Revisiting the Recent Past of Social Democracy in Turkey”. Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi, vol. 75, no. 1, Feb. 2020, pp. 279-14, doi:10.33630/ausbf.587411.
Vancouver
1.Uğur Tekiner. The Social Democratic Populist Party: Revisiting the Recent Past of Social Democracy in Turkey. SBF Dergisi. 2020 Feb. 1;75(1):279-314. doi:10.33630/ausbf.587411

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