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                                                                <journal-id>uidergisi</journal-id>
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                                                                                    <journal-title>Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi</journal-title>
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                            <issn pub-type="ppub">1304-7310</issn>
                                        <issn pub-type="epub">1304-7175</issn>
                                                                                            <publisher>
                    <publisher-name>Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği İktisadi İşletmesi</publisher-name>
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                                                                                                                        <article-title>Post-Soviet Political Transformation in  Azerbaijan: Political Elite, Civil Society and the Trials of Democratization</article-title>
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                                    <trans-title>Azerbaycan’da Sovyet Sonrası Dönemde Siyasal Dönüşüm: Siyasal Seçkinler, Sivil Toplum ve Demokratikleşme Denemeleri</trans-title>
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                                                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Ergun</surname>
                                    <given-names>Ayça</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>Assistant Professor, Middle East Technical University, Department of Sociology</aff>
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                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20100601">
                    <day>06</day>
                    <month>01</month>
                    <year>2010</year>
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                                        <volume>7</volume>
                                        <issue>26</issue>
                                        <fpage>67</fpage>
                                        <lpage>85</lpage>
                        
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                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20100601">
                        <day>06</day>
                        <month>01</month>
                        <year>2010</year>
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                                        <permissions>
                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2004, Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi</copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>2004</copyright-year>
                    <copyright-holder>Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi</copyright-holder>
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                                                                                                <abstract><p>The aim of this article is to analyze the process of post-Soviet transformation in Azerbaijan while focusing on the process of democratization, peculiarities of the leadership and political elite, success and failure in electoral politics, and development of civil society. I argue that the politics of the post-independence period was shaped by the conﬂicting co-existence of patterns of continuity and change which determined the path of political transformation in Azerbaijan.</p></abstract>
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                            <p>Bu makalenin amacı Azerbaycan’da Sovyet sonrası siyasal dönüşüm sürecini demokratikleşme, liderlerin ve siyasal seçkinlerin özellikleri, seçim politikalarında başarı ve başarısızlıklar ve sivil toplum gelişimine odaklanarak incelemektir. Bağımsızlık sonrası dönemde siyasal dönüşüm sürecinin geleceği devamlılık ve değişim unsurlarının çatışan birlikteliği tarafından belirlenmektedir.</p></trans-abstract>
                                                            
            
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                                                    <kwd>Azerbaijan</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>   Political Transformation</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>   Democratization</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>   Political Elite</kwd>
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                                                    <kwd>Azerbaycan</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>   Siyasal Dönüşüm</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>   Demokratikleşme</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>   Siyasal Seçkinler</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>   Sivil Toplum</kwd>
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