Sultan Tepe
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1112993 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sultan Tepe |
| PRENOMES | Sultan |
| SOBRENOME | Tepe |
| ASSINATURA | TEPE S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Illinois Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9552-4282 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 116 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
How to Oust a Populist Autocrat? The Paradox of Oppositional Coalition Building and Pivotal Party Flipping
Despite an uneven playing field, elections remain a key venue for maintaining or ousting populist autocrats. A comparison of the recent Brazilian and Turkish presidential elections indicates that minor parties, often overlooked in political science studies, play a crucial role in postelection power shifts. The ability of autocrats or the opposition to persuade the support of these critical but minor parties and their candidates—a process we call …
Politics and Religion’s Resilience During the Covid-19 Pandemic
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, scholars predicted that this transboundary crisis would cause enormous change and disruption, not only to global health but also to many areas of productivity, including academic life (Donina and Antonowicz 2022; Lewis 2021; Witze 2020). Although the impact has been widespread and devastating to public health, it has not triggered the dramatic changes to the academy that might have been predicted, particular…
Populist party’s challenge to democracy
Studies of populist parties typically focus either on discourse, policies, or institutional captures (e.g., constitutional reforms). Yet the analysis of each in isolation risks thwarting our understanding of populists’ electoral success. Discursive practices and institutional captures of populist parties are not separate processes but their successes depend on each other. The resiliency of populist parties relies not only on overt but also insidi…
The Emergence of Religious Populism? Insights from Israel, India, and Turkey
Although the concept of “populism” remains contested, many studies classify populist parties as left-right, ignoring important variations. Focusing on three populist parties that are often classified as right-wing: Israel’s Likud, India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP), we question how these parties and their leaders deploy religious symbols and discourse to draw the boundaries between “us” and “oth…
Faith in Nations
Despite its global rise, theoretical frameworks to capture populism have been derived primarily from case studies in the Western hemisphere. To assess if and how the premises of populism travel across different contexts, we offer a comparative analysis of populist discourses in Turkey, India, and Russia, countries with different political contexts and religions. The content analysis of 1682 speeches of Erdoğan, Modi, and Putin shows that they dep…
How Authoritarians Win When They Lose
I stanbul
Istanbul is a unique global megacity due to its geographic location, rich history, and cultural heritage, as well as its representativeness of major contemporary urban and global issues. This entry describes how the long history of the city has shaped its multilayered identity, which can be seen in its architecture, public spaces, arts, and neighborhood communities. Then, in relation to current challenges of urban governance, the entry examines t…
Contesting political theologies of Islam and democracy in Turkey
Turkey’s secularism is often depicted as a system of control par excellence, pitting the secularist state against religion and ignoring the multiplicity of actors within the state as well as within religious sectors. A review of Turkey’s main state institution, the Directorate of Religious Affairs (DRA) explains why models which reduce state–religious relations to a one-dimensional interaction of control or contestation are insufficient. Such mod…
Democratic Conundrums in Turkey
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The perils of polarization and religious parties
With their "deeply divided societies", distinctive electoral rules and pivotal religious parties, Israeli and Turkish politics offer crucial cases to probe into "polarization" processes and the ways in which religious parties play a role in them. Using a large sample of public opinion and experimental survey data, the analysis shows how polarization can be marked by some contravening trends. Despite declining social trust, religious party support…
Moderation of Religious Parties
Whether religious parties’ inclusion in electoral competition moderates or polarizes their positions remains an enigma as deductive accounts yield contradictory results. This analysis questions the institution- and ideology-centered approaches to party change and shows that dichotomizing religious parties as moderate or extreme and moderation as a monolithic process obscures religious parties’ role in democracy. When scholars view moderation as c…
Frank Tachau
Frank Tachau, one of the leading scholars of Middle Eastern politics, died on July 23, 2010, at the age of 80 in Sykesville, Maryland, after battling with multiple myeloma for two years. Born in Braunschweig, Germany, Professor Tachau moved with his family to Chicago at the age of seven in 1936. He studied at the University of Chicago, earning a bachelor's and a master's degree in political science. His MA thesis on the diplomacy of the Turkish S…
(Not) Getting Religion
In this analysis, we expand the debate on the place of religion in political science by using the predictions of Wald and Wilcox as our starting point. Following in their footsteps, we askhowpolitical scientists have studied Islam since 2002 and identify the studies on Islam and Muslims at the flagship conference of the discipline, the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. We evaluate not only the quantity but also the app…
Beyond Sacred and Secular
Beyond Sacred and Secular
The global rise of political religion is one of the defining and most puzzling characteristics of current world politics. Since the early 1990s, religious parties have achieved stunning electoral victories around the world. This book investigates religious politics and its implications for contemporary democracy through a comparison of political parties in Israel and Turkey. While the politics of Judaism and Islam are typically seen as outgrowths…
Turkey's AKP
Turkey's democracy reached a turning point with the meteoric rise of the pro-Islamic Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the 2002 election. Surprising many, the AKP has launched an aggressive reform process to meet the European Union's Copenhagen criteria. The AKP-led "quiet revolution" raises serious questions as to how the reforms will shape the future of Turkish democracy and what role Islam will play in it. Three areas in which the party's…
Religious parties and democracy
Discussions of the role of religious parties in democracies can be highly misleading when they take the parties' ideologies at face value and assign them to the binary categories of moderate vs radical. Only by a careful review of how religious parties use religious and secular symbols in defining their political stances can we evaluate their roles vis-à-vis liberal democracy. The competing political ideologies of the Mafdal and Shas Parties in I…
A Kemalist‐Islamist movement? The nationalist action party
The Nationalist Action Party's (NAP) victory in the April 18, 1999 general election was due to its unique position in Turkish politics, which simultaneously sustains a counter‐hegemonic discourse while legitimizing itself through the basic tenets of Kemalism. It idealizes the Turkish nation as the historical embodiment of ethnic‐religious unity and posits that such a nation requires heavy state involvement to maintain national order. Through a na…
Turkey's AKP
Turkey's democracy reached a turning point with the meteoric rise of the pro-Islamic Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the 2002 election. Surprising many, the AKP has launched an aggressive reform process to meet the European Union's Copenhagen criteria. The AKP-led "quiet revolution" raises serious questions as to how the reforms will shape the future of Turkish democracy and what role Islam will play in it. Three areas in which the party's…
Moderation of Religious Parties
Whether religious parties’ inclusion in electoral competition moderates or polarizes their positions remains an enigma as deductive accounts yield contradictory results. This analysis questions the institution- and ideology-centered approaches to party change and shows that dichotomizing religious parties as moderate or extreme and moderation as a monolithic process obscures religious parties’ role in democracy. When scholars view moderation as c…
How Authoritarians Win When They Lose
The perils of polarization and religious parties
With their "deeply divided societies", distinctive electoral rules and pivotal religious parties, Israeli and Turkish politics offer crucial cases to probe into "polarization" processes and the ways in which religious parties play a role in them. Using a large sample of public opinion and experimental survey data, the analysis shows how polarization can be marked by some contravening trends. Despite declining social trust, religious party support…
Religious parties and democracy
Discussions of the role of religious parties in democracies can be highly misleading when they take the parties' ideologies at face value and assign them to the binary categories of moderate vs radical. Only by a careful review of how religious parties use religious and secular symbols in defining their political stances can we evaluate their roles vis-à-vis liberal democracy. The competing political ideologies of the Mafdal and Shas Parties in I…
Contesting political theologies of Islam and democracy in Turkey
Turkey’s secularism is often depicted as a system of control par excellence, pitting the secularist state against religion and ignoring the multiplicity of actors within the state as well as within religious sectors. A review of Turkey’s main state institution, the Directorate of Religious Affairs (DRA) explains why models which reduce state–religious relations to a one-dimensional interaction of control or contestation are insufficient. Such mod…
Populist party’s challenge to democracy
Studies of populist parties typically focus either on discourse, policies, or institutional captures (e.g., constitutional reforms). Yet the analysis of each in isolation risks thwarting our understanding of populists’ electoral success. Discursive practices and institutional captures of populist parties are not separate processes but their successes depend on each other. The resiliency of populist parties relies not only on overt but also insidi…
(Not) Getting Religion
In this analysis, we expand the debate on the place of religion in political science by using the predictions of Wald and Wilcox as our starting point. Following in their footsteps, we askhowpolitical scientists have studied Islam since 2002 and identify the studies on Islam and Muslims at the flagship conference of the discipline, the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. We evaluate not only the quantity but also the app…
A Kemalist‐Islamist movement? The nationalist action party
The Nationalist Action Party's (NAP) victory in the April 18, 1999 general election was due to its unique position in Turkish politics, which simultaneously sustains a counter‐hegemonic discourse while legitimizing itself through the basic tenets of Kemalism. It idealizes the Turkish nation as the historical embodiment of ethnic‐religious unity and posits that such a nation requires heavy state involvement to maintain national order. Through a na…
The Emergence of Religious Populism? Insights from Israel, India, and Turkey
Although the concept of “populism” remains contested, many studies classify populist parties as left-right, ignoring important variations. Focusing on three populist parties that are often classified as right-wing: Israel’s Likud, India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP), we question how these parties and their leaders deploy religious symbols and discourse to draw the boundaries between “us” and “oth…
Faith in Nations
Despite its global rise, theoretical frameworks to capture populism have been derived primarily from case studies in the Western hemisphere. To assess if and how the premises of populism travel across different contexts, we offer a comparative analysis of populist discourses in Turkey, India, and Russia, countries with different political contexts and religions. The content analysis of 1682 speeches of Erdoğan, Modi, and Putin shows that they dep…
A Kemalist‐Islamist movement? The nationalist action party
The Nationalist Action Party's (NAP) victory in the April 18, 1999 general election was due to its unique position in Turkish politics, which simultaneously sustains a counter‐hegemonic discourse while legitimizing itself through the basic tenets of Kemalism. It idealizes the Turkish nation as the historical embodiment of ethnic‐religious unity and posits that such a nation requires heavy state involvement to maintain national order. Through a na…
Turkey's AKP
Turkey's democracy reached a turning point with the meteoric rise of the pro-Islamic Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the 2002 election. Surprising many, the AKP has launched an aggressive reform process to meet the European Union's Copenhagen criteria. The AKP-led "quiet revolution" raises serious questions as to how the reforms will shape the future of Turkish democracy and what role Islam will play in it. Three areas in which the party's…
Religious parties and democracy
Discussions of the role of religious parties in democracies can be highly misleading when they take the parties' ideologies at face value and assign them to the binary categories of moderate vs radical. Only by a careful review of how religious parties use religious and secular symbols in defining their political stances can we evaluate their roles vis-à-vis liberal democracy. The competing political ideologies of the Mafdal and Shas Parties in I…
Beyond Sacred and Secular
Beyond Sacred and Secular
The global rise of political religion is one of the defining and most puzzling characteristics of current world politics. Since the early 1990s, religious parties have achieved stunning electoral victories around the world. This book investigates religious politics and its implications for contemporary democracy through a comparison of political parties in Israel and Turkey. While the politics of Judaism and Islam are typically seen as outgrowths…
Frank Tachau
Frank Tachau, one of the leading scholars of Middle Eastern politics, died on July 23, 2010, at the age of 80 in Sykesville, Maryland, after battling with multiple myeloma for two years. Born in Braunschweig, Germany, Professor Tachau moved with his family to Chicago at the age of seven in 1936. He studied at the University of Chicago, earning a bachelor's and a master's degree in political science. His MA thesis on the diplomacy of the Turkish S…
(Not) Getting Religion
In this analysis, we expand the debate on the place of religion in political science by using the predictions of Wald and Wilcox as our starting point. Following in their footsteps, we askhowpolitical scientists have studied Islam since 2002 and identify the studies on Islam and Muslims at the flagship conference of the discipline, the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. We evaluate not only the quantity but also the app…
Moderation of Religious Parties
Whether religious parties’ inclusion in electoral competition moderates or polarizes their positions remains an enigma as deductive accounts yield contradictory results. This analysis questions the institution- and ideology-centered approaches to party change and shows that dichotomizing religious parties as moderate or extreme and moderation as a monolithic process obscures religious parties’ role in democracy. When scholars view moderation as c…
Democratic Conundrums in Turkey
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The perils of polarization and religious parties
With their "deeply divided societies", distinctive electoral rules and pivotal religious parties, Israeli and Turkish politics offer crucial cases to probe into "polarization" processes and the ways in which religious parties play a role in them. Using a large sample of public opinion and experimental survey data, the analysis shows how polarization can be marked by some contravening trends. Despite declining social trust, religious party support…
Contesting political theologies of Islam and democracy in Turkey
Turkey’s secularism is often depicted as a system of control par excellence, pitting the secularist state against religion and ignoring the multiplicity of actors within the state as well as within religious sectors. A review of Turkey’s main state institution, the Directorate of Religious Affairs (DRA) explains why models which reduce state–religious relations to a one-dimensional interaction of control or contestation are insufficient. Such mod…
I stanbul
Istanbul is a unique global megacity due to its geographic location, rich history, and cultural heritage, as well as its representativeness of major contemporary urban and global issues. This entry describes how the long history of the city has shaped its multilayered identity, which can be seen in its architecture, public spaces, arts, and neighborhood communities. Then, in relation to current challenges of urban governance, the entry examines t…
How Authoritarians Win When They Lose
Populist party’s challenge to democracy
Studies of populist parties typically focus either on discourse, policies, or institutional captures (e.g., constitutional reforms). Yet the analysis of each in isolation risks thwarting our understanding of populists’ electoral success. Discursive practices and institutional captures of populist parties are not separate processes but their successes depend on each other. The resiliency of populist parties relies not only on overt but also insidi…
The Emergence of Religious Populism? Insights from Israel, India, and Turkey
Although the concept of “populism” remains contested, many studies classify populist parties as left-right, ignoring important variations. Focusing on three populist parties that are often classified as right-wing: Israel’s Likud, India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP), we question how these parties and their leaders deploy religious symbols and discourse to draw the boundaries between “us” and “oth…
Faith in Nations
Despite its global rise, theoretical frameworks to capture populism have been derived primarily from case studies in the Western hemisphere. To assess if and how the premises of populism travel across different contexts, we offer a comparative analysis of populist discourses in Turkey, India, and Russia, countries with different political contexts and religions. The content analysis of 1682 speeches of Erdoğan, Modi, and Putin shows that they dep…
Politics and Religion’s Resilience During the Covid-19 Pandemic
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, scholars predicted that this transboundary crisis would cause enormous change and disruption, not only to global health but also to many areas of productivity, including academic life (Donina and Antonowicz 2022; Lewis 2021; Witze 2020). Although the impact has been widespread and devastating to public health, it has not triggered the dramatic changes to the academy that might have been predicted, particular…
How to Oust a Populist Autocrat? The Paradox of Oppositional Coalition Building and Pivotal Party Flipping
Despite an uneven playing field, elections remain a key venue for maintaining or ousting populist autocrats. A comparison of the recent Brazilian and Turkish presidential elections indicates that minor parties, often overlooked in political science studies, play a crucial role in postelection power shifts. The ability of autocrats or the opposition to persuade the support of these critical but minor parties and their candidates—a process we call …
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