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Monday, June 4, 2012

Christian Democracy and the AKP: Parallels and Contrasts, Hale 2007

(294): CD has its origins in the immediate post-WWII environment (as fascism was discredited but communism ascendant)

(295): Vatican came to democracy only in 1944

(297): These were 'catch-all' parties that followed the general drift towards neoliberalism; always strongly pro-Europe

(302): AKP inherited an economic mess, initially turned to IMF

(304): CHP/Military involved in public devates [This has to be distinguished from praetorianism]

(305): Political Parties Law a serious intervention--prohibits unions from affiliating with political parties..

(306): AKP less middle-class than the CD parties

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