Metin Heper
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 327432 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Metin Heper |
| NOMBRES | Metin |
| APELLIDO | Heper |
| FIRMA | HEPER M |
| AFILIACIONES | Bilkent University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 311 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Institutions and Democratic Statecraft
This volume of fifteen original essays examines the role of political institutions in establishing democratic stability around the globe. Leading scholars survey well-established democracies, such as the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, and France; relatively established democracies, such as Germany, Italy, India, and Israel; and more recently established democracies, such as Turkey, Poland, and Spain. The final chapter explores h…
Institutions and Democratic Statecraft
Muslimism in Turkey and beyond
This is a rather useful book. It introduces both a much-needed new concept to the studies of religion on the one hand, and the state, society/community, and individual on the other. When we turn ou
Revisiting civil society in Turkey
In studies on civil society, there is a tendency to perceive it as an instrument for the transition from an authoritarian system of government to a democratic one. It is not taken as a societal entity in an already consolidated democracy that contributes to the making of public policies. This is also the case when it comes to studies on civil society in Turkey. Assuming that Turkey has a consolidated democracy, this article investigates the exten…
Civil-Military Relations in Turkey
In Republican Turkey, the military has always had respect for democracy. However, from 1960 onwards, the military intervened in politics on four occasions. This was because it felt responsible for dealing with internal as well external threats to the country. From 2002 onwards, however, the military began to openly question the very wisdom of intervening in politics. In the following years, the military seemed to have come close to thinking that …
Bureaucracy and Administration
In the Ottoman-Turkish political evolution (from 1299 to the present) both government and civil bureaucracy went through signifi cant changes.An early classifi cation among the political institutions of the Ottoman Empire was that by Lybyer (1913), which distinguished the "Ruling Institution" from the "Moslem Institution": the former was made up of the sultan and his household, the civil bureaucracy, and the military; the latter consisted of the …
Does Secularism Face a Serious Threat in Turkey
Since 2002, the year the Justice and Development Party (JDP) formed a majority government in Turkey, the bulk of secularists in that country have felt that Turkey would soon drift toward a state based on Islam. The secularists in question are of the opinion that the JDP government has been engaged in dissimulation (takiyye) and that, in the first opportune moment, would attempt to Islamize the state. In a related manner, the secularists think tha…
Devlet Bahçeli and ‘far right’ politics in Turkey, 1999–2002
In several Western European democracies one of the significant political developments of the post-1980 period was the emergence of a far right characterized by ethno-nationalism, racism, xenophobia
The Justice and Development Party Government and the Military in Turkey
Civil–military relations in Turkey have always been problematic. On several occasions the military has intervened in politics. With the coming to power of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in November 2002, those relations could have taken a new twist, for the military in Turkey has always been a robust guardian of secularism and there has been a suspicion on the part of the military and other secularist groups in that country that the AKP …
The European Union, the Turkish Military and Democracy
The military in Turkey has been both the subject and the object of modernization as Westernization. In the process it came to occupy a prominent place in the Turkish polity, acting as the guardian of the premises upon which the Turkish Republic was based. In the post-1960 period it took power into own hands several times. Yet, the military interventions in question were made to 'save the democracy from itself' and not for the purpose of setting u…
The Victory of the Justice and Development Party in Turkey
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMetin HeperMetin Heper is based at Bilkent University, Ankara
Islam, Modernity, and Democracy in Contemporary Turkey
Conclusion - The Consolidation of Democracy versus Democratization in Turkey
(2002). Conclusion - The Consolidation of Democracy versus Democratization in Turkey. Turkish Studies: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 138-146
Turkey
Until recently, although they did not subscribe to political Islam, religiously‐oriented political parties in Turkey were closed down because their leaders could not prevent some militant members from making statements provocative to the secular and democratic regime in that country. Turkey has had a cultural‐cum‐civic nationalism; consequently, even Turkey's long‐standing Kurdish problem, which in recent years has been brought under control, did…
Political studies in Turkey
The task of studying Turkish politics has traditionally been split among an “internationalized set” of researchers, who have produced first‐rate scholarship both at Turkish universities and abroad, and local Turkish political scientists, who have been influenced by Ottoman‐Turkish society and culture. This latter group was often divided along strict political lines, which tainted academic debates and produced questionable work. In recent years, t…
The Military and the Consolidation of Democracy
Turkey's recent success in dealing with the threat of political Islam without the military taking power into its own hands cannot be explained by either of the two contending theories about the military's role in the consolidation of democracy, that of the 'mode-of-transition' or that of 'electoral dynamics.' Following the transition to democracy, officers in Latin America have evinced politically elite characteristics and have been in a tug of w…
Is Legal-Rational Bureaucracy a Prerequisite for a Rational-Productive Bureaucracy
The particular pattern the bureaucratic development in Turkey has evinced suggests that legal rationality is a prerequisite for the successful institutionalization of rational productivity. Whereas there is a zero-sum type of relationship between patrimonialism on one hand and legal rationality and rational productivity on the other, there is a positive-sum type of relationship between legal rationality and rational productivity
Double‐faced state
La Turquie a une forte tradition etatique dans ce sens ou, depuis l'Empire Ottoman jusqu'a nos jours, il y a toujours eu la presence d'une categorie particuliere d'elite qui agit au nom de l'Etat en assumant une complete autonomie vis-a-vis des autres groupes politiques. Cet article a pour objectif de mieux cerner l'identite et le role de cette elite en montrant la double face de l'Etat turc, a la fois forte et faible, et les strategies du patron…
The press and the consolidation of democracy in Turkey
(1996). The press and the consolidation of democracy in Turkey. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 109-123.
Parliamentary Government with a Strong President
METIN HEPER is chair of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, and a founding member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences. He has most recently coedited a book entitled Politics in the Third Turkish Republic. MENDERES CINAR is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Bilkent University
The Military and Democracy in the Third Turkish Republic
In the mid-1990s, civil-military relations in Turkey came close to the liberal-democratic model. The military was essentially interested in contributing to public policy in matters it deemed important-matters that pertained to the internal and external defense of the country. Officers thought that they should make such a contribution not because they were the ultimate guardians of some substantive norms but because they had the necessary expertis…
Turkey and The West
Consolidating Turkish Democracy
The Strong State as a Problem for the Consolidation of Democracy
Consolidation of a democracy requires the establishment of a balance between the horizontal and vertical dimensions of democracy, that is, between participation and responsible leadership. The balance in question necessitates a harmonious relationship between the state and civil society. A too strong state as well as a too weak one poses difficulties for a viable democracy to flourish. This article elaborates this view by a comparison of the fort…
Democracy and Modernity
Democracy and Modernity presents a colloquium of scholars on the present state of democracy in many parts of the globe, in both developed and developing countries. Where does it stand firm, and where is it on shifting ground? What are the conditions necessary for the consolidation of democracy, and what difficulties face those countries where a stable democratic regime is still a hope for the future? How do the political traditions of a country's…
Double‐faced state
La Turquie a une forte tradition etatique dans ce sens ou, depuis l'Empire Ottoman jusqu'a nos jours, il y a toujours eu la presence d'une categorie particuliere d'elite qui agit au nom de l'Etat en assumant une complete autonomie vis-a-vis des autres groupes politiques. Cet article a pour objectif de mieux cerner l'identite et le role de cette elite en montrant la double face de l'Etat turc, a la fois forte et faible, et les strategies du patron…
The Strong State as a Problem for the Consolidation of Democracy
Consolidation of a democracy requires the establishment of a balance between the horizontal and vertical dimensions of democracy, that is, between participation and responsible leadership. The balance in question necessitates a harmonious relationship between the state and civil society. A too strong state as well as a too weak one poses difficulties for a viable democracy to flourish. This article elaborates this view by a comparison of the fort…
The Military and the Consolidation of Democracy
Turkey's recent success in dealing with the threat of political Islam without the military taking power into its own hands cannot be explained by either of the two contending theories about the military's role in the consolidation of democracy, that of the 'mode-of-transition' or that of 'electoral dynamics.' Following the transition to democracy, officers in Latin America have evinced politically elite characteristics and have been in a tug of w…
The Military and Democracy in the Third Turkish Republic
In the mid-1990s, civil-military relations in Turkey came close to the liberal-democratic model. The military was essentially interested in contributing to public policy in matters it deemed important-matters that pertained to the internal and external defense of the country. Officers thought that they should make such a contribution not because they were the ultimate guardians of some substantive norms but because they had the necessary expertis…
Center and Periphery in the Ottoman Empire
The article takes issue with two hypotheses often claimed in the literature-that the Ottoman centuries extending from the sixteenth to the nineteenth evince a progressive development from a centralized to a quasi-feudal polity, and that during the course of the nineteenth century progress had been made toward a constitutional government. It is noted that throughout the period in question, in fact, two types of relationship existed between the cen…
The State, Politics, and the Military in Turkey
Eric Nordlinger has suggested a typology encompassing three models or patterns of political involvement of the military. In the first of these, the military act as moderators. Typically in this model, they do not overtly seize the reins of government but rather exercise veto from behind the scenes. Only if the civilian authorities fail comply with the desires of the military do they execute a displacement coup designed bring a more malleable civi…
Islam, Modernity, and Democracy in Contemporary Turkey
The European Union, the Turkish Military and Democracy
The military in Turkey has been both the subject and the object of modernization as Westernization. In the process it came to occupy a prominent place in the Turkish polity, acting as the guardian of the premises upon which the Turkish Republic was based. In the post-1960 period it took power into own hands several times. Yet, the military interventions in question were made to 'save the democracy from itself' and not for the purpose of setting u…
The Justice and Development Party Government and the Military in Turkey
Civil–military relations in Turkey have always been problematic. On several occasions the military has intervened in politics. With the coming to power of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in November 2002, those relations could have taken a new twist, for the military in Turkey has always been a robust guardian of secularism and there has been a suspicion on the part of the military and other secularist groups in that country that the AKP …
The State, Political Party and Society in post-1983 Turkey
IN TERMS OF THE HISTORICAL CATEGORIES FORMULATED BY S. N. Eisentadt, the origins of the Ottoman-Turkish polity were imperial-bureaucratic rather than imperial-feudal or patrimonial. The regime was not patrimonial because the centre had its own distinctive normative system; the values of the centre were just a pale reflection of those of the periphery. The regime was not imperial-feudal for the centre did not have to face civil societal groups abl…
Political Modernization as Reflected in Bureaucratic Change
Political modernization is a difficult concept to grapple with 1 . The traditional approach is to view the political systems of industrially developed Western countries as a model of, or sometimes even as a synonym for, a politically developed polity
Civil-Military Relations in Turkey
In Republican Turkey, the military has always had respect for democracy. However, from 1960 onwards, the military intervened in politics on four occasions. This was because it felt responsible for dealing with internal as well external threats to the country. From 2002 onwards, however, the military began to openly question the very wisdom of intervening in politics. In the following years, the military seemed to have come close to thinking that …
The Executive in the Third Turkish Republic, 1982–1989
Turkey and The West
Consolidating Turkish Democracy
The Role of Bureaucracy and Regime Types
The objective is to assess the validity of one general proposition that has been central to much of the thinking and theorizing among students of comparative public administration. It is that the political roles ofpublic bureaucracies vary systematically with the regime types. This proposition is examined in the context of two disparate political systems; Korea and Turkey. The data are derived from personal interviews conducted with 232 Turkish a…
Motherland Party Governments and Bureaucracy in Turkey, 1983–1988
The State and Public Bureaucracies
In its conventional Weberian version, 'the state' is used to refer to human associations that successfully claim the monopoly of legitimate use of physical force within a given territory. In this conception, the state is presumed to have final authority, i.e., sovereignty as first formulated by Jean Bodin. As elaborated by David Easton, such a state is a neutral 'transformatory structure' that would be 'captured' by elected regimes, and used as a…
Does Secularism Face a Serious Threat in Turkey
Since 2002, the year the Justice and Development Party (JDP) formed a majority government in Turkey, the bulk of secularists in that country have felt that Turkey would soon drift toward a state based on Islam. The secularists in question are of the opinion that the JDP government has been engaged in dissimulation (takiyye) and that, in the first opportune moment, would attempt to Islamize the state. In a related manner, the secularists think tha…
Conclusion - The Consolidation of Democracy versus Democratization in Turkey
(2002). Conclusion - The Consolidation of Democracy versus Democratization in Turkey. Turkish Studies: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 138-146
Parliamentary Government with a Strong President
METIN HEPER is chair of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, and a founding member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences. He has most recently coedited a book entitled Politics in the Third Turkish Republic. MENDERES CINAR is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Bilkent University
The Victory of the Justice and Development Party in Turkey
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMetin HeperMetin Heper is based at Bilkent University, Ankara
Is Legal-Rational Bureaucracy a Prerequisite for a Rational-Productive Bureaucracy
The particular pattern the bureaucratic development in Turkey has evinced suggests that legal rationality is a prerequisite for the successful institutionalization of rational productivity. Whereas there is a zero-sum type of relationship between patrimonialism on one hand and legal rationality and rational productivity on the other, there is a positive-sum type of relationship between legal rationality and rational productivity
Devlet Bahçeli and ‘far right’ politics in Turkey, 1999–2002
In several Western European democracies one of the significant political developments of the post-1980 period was the emergence of a far right characterized by ethno-nationalism, racism, xenophobia
Political Modernization as Reflected in Bureaucratic Change
Political modernization is a difficult concept to grapple with 1 . The traditional approach is to view the political systems of industrially developed Western countries as a model of, or sometimes even as a synonym for, a politically developed polity
The Role of Bureaucracy and Regime Types
The objective is to assess the validity of one general proposition that has been central to much of the thinking and theorizing among students of comparative public administration. It is that the political roles ofpublic bureaucracies vary systematically with the regime types. This proposition is examined in the context of two disparate political systems; Korea and Turkey. The data are derived from personal interviews conducted with 232 Turkish a…
Center and Periphery in the Ottoman Empire
The article takes issue with two hypotheses often claimed in the literature-that the Ottoman centuries extending from the sixteenth to the nineteenth evince a progressive development from a centralized to a quasi-feudal polity, and that during the course of the nineteenth century progress had been made toward a constitutional government. It is noted that throughout the period in question, in fact, two types of relationship existed between the cen…
A Research Note on the Relevance in Administrative Research and Training
(1982). A Research Note on the Relevance in Administrative Research and Training: The Turkish Case. Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 167-173
The State, Politics, and the Military in Turkey
Eric Nordlinger has suggested a typology encompassing three models or patterns of political involvement of the military. In the first of these, the military act as moderators. Typically in this model, they do not overtly seize the reins of government but rather exercise veto from behind the scenes. Only if the civilian authorities fail comply with the desires of the military do they execute a displacement coup designed bring a more malleable civi…
The State and Public Bureaucracies
In its conventional Weberian version, 'the state' is used to refer to human associations that successfully claim the monopoly of legitimate use of physical force within a given territory. In this conception, the state is presumed to have final authority, i.e., sovereignty as first formulated by Jean Bodin. As elaborated by David Easton, such a state is a neutral 'transformatory structure' that would be 'captured' by elected regimes, and used as a…
The State and Public Bureaucracies
Preface Part Theoretical Backdrop Introduction by Metin Heper The State and Public Bureaucracies: A Comparative and Historical Perspective by Metin Heper Part II. Anglo-American Context The United States: The Anti-Statist Society by Ronald Glassman Development of an Unpretentious Bureaucracy: The Case of England by Henry Parris Part III. Continental Europe Context Emergence and Decline of the State in Ancient Rome by Robert J. Antonio France: Pol…
Motherland Party Governments and Bureaucracy in Turkey, 1983–1988
The State, Political Party and Society in post-1983 Turkey
IN TERMS OF THE HISTORICAL CATEGORIES FORMULATED BY S. N. Eisentadt, the origins of the Ottoman-Turkish polity were imperial-bureaucratic rather than imperial-feudal or patrimonial. The regime was not patrimonial because the centre had its own distinctive normative system; the values of the centre were just a pale reflection of those of the periphery. The regime was not imperial-feudal for the centre did not have to face civil societal groups abl…
The Executive in the Third Turkish Republic, 1982–1989
Democracy and Modernity
Democracy and Modernity presents a colloquium of scholars on the present state of democracy in many parts of the globe, in both developed and developing countries. Where does it stand firm, and where is it on shifting ground? What are the conditions necessary for the consolidation of democracy, and what difficulties face those countries where a stable democratic regime is still a hope for the future? How do the political traditions of a country's…
The state, religion and pluralism
(1991). The state, religion and pluralism: the Turkish case in comparative perspective. British Society for Middle Eastern Studies. Bulletin: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 38-51
Consolidating Turkish Democracy
The Strong State as a Problem for the Consolidation of Democracy
Consolidation of a democracy requires the establishment of a balance between the horizontal and vertical dimensions of democracy, that is, between participation and responsible leadership. The balance in question necessitates a harmonious relationship between the state and civil society. A too strong state as well as a too weak one poses difficulties for a viable democracy to flourish. This article elaborates this view by a comparison of the fort…
Turkey and The West
The press and the consolidation of democracy in Turkey
(1996). The press and the consolidation of democracy in Turkey. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 109-123.
Parliamentary Government with a Strong President
METIN HEPER is chair of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, and a founding member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences. He has most recently coedited a book entitled Politics in the Third Turkish Republic. MENDERES CINAR is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Bilkent University
The Military and Democracy in the Third Turkish Republic
In the mid-1990s, civil-military relations in Turkey came close to the liberal-democratic model. The military was essentially interested in contributing to public policy in matters it deemed important-matters that pertained to the internal and external defense of the country. Officers thought that they should make such a contribution not because they were the ultimate guardians of some substantive norms but because they had the necessary expertis…
Is Legal-Rational Bureaucracy a Prerequisite for a Rational-Productive Bureaucracy
The particular pattern the bureaucratic development in Turkey has evinced suggests that legal rationality is a prerequisite for the successful institutionalization of rational productivity. Whereas there is a zero-sum type of relationship between patrimonialism on one hand and legal rationality and rational productivity on the other, there is a positive-sum type of relationship between legal rationality and rational productivity
Double‐faced state
La Turquie a une forte tradition etatique dans ce sens ou, depuis l'Empire Ottoman jusqu'a nos jours, il y a toujours eu la presence d'une categorie particuliere d'elite qui agit au nom de l'Etat en assumant une complete autonomie vis-a-vis des autres groupes politiques. Cet article a pour objectif de mieux cerner l'identite et le role de cette elite en montrant la double face de l'Etat turc, a la fois forte et faible, et les strategies du patron…
Political studies in Turkey
The task of studying Turkish politics has traditionally been split among an “internationalized set” of researchers, who have produced first‐rate scholarship both at Turkish universities and abroad, and local Turkish political scientists, who have been influenced by Ottoman‐Turkish society and culture. This latter group was often divided along strict political lines, which tainted academic debates and produced questionable work. In recent years, t…
The Military and the Consolidation of Democracy
Turkey's recent success in dealing with the threat of political Islam without the military taking power into its own hands cannot be explained by either of the two contending theories about the military's role in the consolidation of democracy, that of the 'mode-of-transition' or that of 'electoral dynamics.' Following the transition to democracy, officers in Latin America have evinced politically elite characteristics and have been in a tug of w…
Turkey
Until recently, although they did not subscribe to political Islam, religiously‐oriented political parties in Turkey were closed down because their leaders could not prevent some militant members from making statements provocative to the secular and democratic regime in that country. Turkey has had a cultural‐cum‐civic nationalism; consequently, even Turkey's long‐standing Kurdish problem, which in recent years has been brought under control, did…
Conclusion - The Consolidation of Democracy versus Democratization in Turkey
(2002). Conclusion - The Consolidation of Democracy versus Democratization in Turkey. Turkish Studies: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 138-146
The Victory of the Justice and Development Party in Turkey
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMetin HeperMetin Heper is based at Bilkent University, Ankara
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