The Mobilization of Political Islam in Turkey

저자
Eligur, Banu
출판사
Cambridge
출판일
20100615
ISBN
9780521760218
ISBN 등록 지역
영어권 (ISBN 978-0)

소개

The Mobilization of Political Islam in Turkey explains why political Islam, which has been part of Turkish politics since the 1970s but on the rise only since the 1990s, has now achieved governing power. Drawing on social movement theory, the book focuses on the dominant form of Islamist activism in Turkey by analyzing the increasing electoral strength of four successive Islamist political parties: the Welfare Party; its successor, the Virtue Party; and the successors of the Virtue Party: ...