The AKP story: Turkey's bumpy reform path towards the European Union

dc.contributor.authorMcDonald, Deniz Bingöl
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-28T11:11:14Z
dc.date.available2019-06-28T11:11:14Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.departmentFakülteler, İktisadi, İdari ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi, Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümüen_US
dc.description.abstractThe Justice and Development Party (AKP) government between 2002 and 2007 managed to accomplish unprecedented economic reforms maintaining 8% growth and passed legislation to change Turkey into a more democratic country in line with the Copenhagen political conditions. After being rewarded with the start of accession negotiations in 2005 and an electoral landslide in 2007 AKP's second term in office is in stark contrast with its earlier days of glory. AKP disengaged itself from the IMF agreement and took EU reforms off the top of its agenda bringing half a decade of political and economic reforms to a halt. The paper argues that AKP utilized the credibility of IMF and EU support to defeat its domestic rivals but once the external incentives lessened AKP turned inwards to consolidate its power and cared for little else. The first part of the paper explores how AKP managed to construct such a broad reform consensus and assesses the role of the external influence. The second part explores why and how this reform consensus fell apart.en_US]
dc.identifier.citation3
dc.identifier.doi10.1556/SocEc.2011.0004en_US
dc.identifier.endpage542
dc.identifier.issn1588-9726en_US
dc.identifier.issn1588-9726
dc.identifier.issue3
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84855671498en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityN/A
dc.identifier.startpage525en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/1510
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1556/SocEc.2011.0004
dc.identifier.volume33en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/A
dc.institutionauthorMcDonald, Deniz Bingölen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.journalSociety and Economyen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectAccession conditionsen_US
dc.subjectDemocratizationen_US
dc.subjectEconomic reformsen_US
dc.subjectEuropean Unionen_US
dc.subjectExternal anchorsen_US
dc.subjectF36en_US
dc.subjectF53en_US
dc.subjectF59en_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.titleThe AKP story: Turkey's bumpy reform path towards the European Unionen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dspace.entity.typePublication

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