Arslantas, Duzgun 
ORCID: 0000-0002-8133-6280, Arslantas, Senol ORCID: 0000-0003-3320-8652 and Kaiser, Andre
(2020).
Does the Electoral System Foster a Predominant Party System? Evidence from Turkey.
Swiss Polit. Sci. Rev., 26 (1).
S. 125 - 144.
HOBOKEN:
WILEY.
ISSN 1662-6370
Abstract
This paper discusses the role of the electoral system in making the Justice and Development Party (AKP) dominant. Drawing on Sartori's framework, we first clarify the concept of a predominant party system. Second, we examine the impact of the electoral system on the emergence of a predominant party system in Turkey. Analysing election results, we argue that the electoral system fosters dominance in three ways. First, a combination of electoral formula, national threshold and district threshold leads to over-representation of large parties and under-representation of small ones. Second, the fear of a wasted vote due to the high threshold prompts voters to support their second-best option, which concentrates the votes among large parties. Finally, the electoral system increases electoral turnout rates by extending polarization.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||||||
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-349148 | ||||||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/spsr.12386 | ||||||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Swiss Polit. Sci. Rev. | ||||||||||||||||
| Volume: | 26 | ||||||||||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Page Range: | S. 125 - 144 | ||||||||||||||||
| Date: | 2020 | ||||||||||||||||
| Publisher: | WILEY | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of Publication: | HOBOKEN | ||||||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 1662-6370 | ||||||||||||||||
| Language: | English | ||||||||||||||||
| Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||||||||||
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| Subjects: | no entry | ||||||||||||||||
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| URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/34914 |
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