collected snippets of immediate importance...


Monday, June 4, 2012

Civil-Military Relations in 'Islamic Democracies', Lenze 2011

(198-199): useful for Turkey timeline

(208): distinguishing characteristic of Turkey is army's possession of broad popular support

(229: Though, still, occasionally take pains to avoid the 'poor, conservative, peasant electorate'

(241): Kemalist shift to the Left in the 1960s

(252): 1980 coup in context of an economic crisis

(258): After 1980 coup military imposes restrictive constitution before handing back power

(261): Military continuity into civilian era (i.e., re-democratization with persistent powers)

267): 1989, Turkey gets its first civilian president

(272): International incentives to be democracy (EU, etc.)

(283): AKP successfully passed legislation that increased civilian control over the military

(285, 298): Here, an (1) individual-based explanation of why the military didn't intervent after the AKP intruded on its privilege; plus (2) fact that the economy was doing well


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