The Moderation Theory Revisited
The Case of Islamic Political Actors
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6315817 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Güneş Murat Tezcür (0000-0002-5722-6209, Loyola University Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 69-88 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Party Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1354-0688 • E-ISSN: 1460-3683 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1354068809339536 |
| OpenAlex | W2165901585 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 66 |
| References cited | 64 |
An influential political science literature argues that integration of radical political parties within the political system leads to their moderation. These parties trade off their ideological platforms for electoral viability and political legality. Radicals become moderates through strategic interests. In this article, I revisit this thesis and apply it to the Islamic political actors in Iran and Turkey by employing the comparative method of agreement. Three conclusions are reached. First, moderation helps explain the evolution of Islamists into Muslim reformers. Second, moderation is a double-edged sword, especially in regimes with strong un-democratic characteristics. Moderation of radicals may result in their domestication — a situation that does not contribute to democratic transition or consolidation. Finally, change in the ideologies of political elites is central in our understanding behavioural change. The data sources include ethnography, primary language sources and historical narratives
Consolidation (business · Democracy · Economics · Ideology · Islam · Moderation · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · History · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Social Psychology · Turkey's Politics and Society
Islamic Populism in Turkey
Inside Tunisia's Al-Nahda
Religious Politics in Turkey
The internal-external nexus in moderation processes
Türkiye Hizbullahı'nın Siyasal Dönüşümü
The theology of Islamic moderation education in Singkawang, Indonesia
Turkey's Islamists
“If you can’t beat them – join them”
Islam and Democracy in Indonesia
From Islamism to Democracy
Between consciousness and conscience
Ennahdha et les salafistes
Les salafistes marocains et la reconfiguration politico-religieuse post-2011
Faulty Assumptions about Democratization in Turkey
Moderating Anti-Feminism
Did Secularism Fail? The Rise of Religion in Turkish Politics
Stuck in Place? Normalization and the Changing Voter Profile of Indonesia's Islamist Prosperous Justice Party
Satire and Religious Tolerance
The relationship between diffuse support for democracy and governing party support in a hybrid regime
The AKP and stealth Islamization in Turkey
Resistance to change
Inclusion-moderation or political opportunity? Lessons from the case of Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, PAS)
Islamist parties, intraparty organizational dynamics, and moderation as strategic behaviour
Normalized but politically contingent
Conditions for new parties’ participation in a founding election in a democratic transition
The divided self
Social polarization and electoral incentives for Islamist de-moderation
Wasatiyyah and Hamas's modulating positions on the two-state solution and Israel
PKS in Post-Reformasi Indonesia
State-organised Religion and Muslims’ Commitment to Democracy in Albania
Russia's Muslims and Electoral Participation
Beyond moderation
Revisiting the moderation controversy with space and class
Islam and Democracy at the Fringes of Europe
Muslims' support for European integration
Islamist moderation in perspective
Can Islamists Become Moderates? Rethinking the Inclusion-Moderation Hypothesis
Emergence of a Dominant Party System After Multipartyism
Islamist Mobilisation in Secularist Strongholds
Women as Candidates
Moderating Islamism in Indonesia
Which matters more in the electoral success of Islamist (successor) parties – religion or performance? The Turkish case
Revisiting the inclusion-moderation thesis in the context of decentralized institutions
Religious parties
Emigration and the diffusion of political Salafism
Islamists, democracy and Turkey
Islamists and the regime
Islamism, party change, and strategic conciliation
Transforming State Visions
Adapting to Peacetime Politics? Rebranding and Ideological Change in Former Rebel Parties
Ambivalent Moderation
Sources of Muslim democracy
Immoderation
Democratization and the secularization of religious parties
Wolves in sheep clothing or victims of times? Discussing the immoderation of incumbent Islamic parties in Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia
Questioning the moderation dichotomy
The “inclusion-moderation” illusion
Pathways of Islamist adaptation
Does It Take Democrats to Democratize? Lessons From Islamic and Secular Elite Values in Turkey
Bending with the Wind
Opportunity, ideology, and Salafi pathways of political activism in Tunisia
From secessionism to regionalism
Reevaluating Islamist electoral success and participation in government
Alliances and Perception Profiles in the Iranian Reform Movement, 1997 to 2005
Incoherent and strategic
When democratization radicalizes
Islam without fear
Polyarchy
Critiques, Responses, And Tradeoffs
Parties and Party Systems
Islamic Political Identity in Turkey
Understanding the Process of Economic Change
How Institutions Evolve
Democracy in Iran
Islam and Democracy
Remaking Muslim Politics
Faith in Moderation
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
The Rise of Christian Democracy in Europe
Islamist Mobilization in Turkey
Political Islam in Turkey
Conflict among the ruling revolutionary elite in Iran
Dissent in Iranian Elections
Who Rules Iran? The Structure of Power in the Islamic Republic
Parliamentary Politics in Revolutionary Iran
Reinventing Khomeini
International Journal of Middle East Studies
Regime Cycles
Religious Participation among Muslims
Constitutionalism, Judiciary, and Democracy in Islamic Societies
Species of Political Parties
Voter Profiles and Fragmentation in the Turkish Party System
Party Moderation and Politicians’ Ideological Rigidity
Transformation of Political Islam in Turkey
Turkey's AKP
Elections Without Democracy
"The Rise of "Muslim Democracy
Favorable Conditions and Electoral Revolutions
Transitions from Postcommunism
The Political Regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Comparative Perspective
Myths of Moderation
A Cause in Search of Its Effect, or What Does Political Culture Explain
Evidence and Inference in the Comparative Case Study
Fortuitous By-Products
The Path to Moderation
Commitment Problems in Emerging Democracies
Linkage versus Leverage. Rethinking the International Dimension of Regime Change
The Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East
Debating the Direction of Comparative Politics
Rulers and Rules
Linkages between Citizens and Politicians in Democratic Polities
Qualitative Methodology and Comparative Politics
Mechanisms in Political Processes
Authoritarian State Building and the Sources of Regime Competitiveness in the Fourth Wave
Culture in Action
Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics
Evidence and Inference
Conceptualizing Culture
The New Institutionalism
Some Social Requisites of Democracy
Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method
An Evolutionary Approach to Norms
The Rule of Law and the Politics of Reform in Post-Revolutionary Iran
Causation, Statistics, and Sociology
The Uses of Comparative History in Macrosocial Inquiry
| Unique citing works | 66 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,13 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 65 |