Comparative Judicial Politics synthesizes the now extensive scholarly work on judicial
politics from around the world, focusing on legal traditions, lawyers, judges, constitutional …

This article discusses the behavior of the Constitutional Court in Turkey. As the highest court
in the country, it is responsible for many decisions that have shaped the course of Turkish …

This article aims to examine several important decisions related to the dissolution of political
parties decided by the international human rights courts. It aims to conclude that there are …

Political polarization has considerably increased in most established democracies in the last
decades. Such increase corresponds not only to parties and their candidates' policy and …

This thesis examines the effect of civil conflict on electoral behavior by comparing the
Turkish and Peruvian cases. Employing aggregate-level conflict and electoral data, it seeks …

The Turkish party law (TPL) has thus far been studied only in isolation. We do not have any
knowledge of where it stands compared to other party laws. This study fills this gap by …

It is conventional wisdom that preferences affect the decisional behaviour of judges sitting
on US courts, and for some time now, the 'attitudinal model'has been transported beyond the …

Conventional wisdom holds that independent judiciaries protect democracies from
backsliding. I instead argue that courts can enable democratic erosion depending on their …

This chapter introduces the research question, rationale, theoretical framework as well as
the data and methods used in this book. The research question is framed as follows:'What …

This chapter addresses how it was possible for the AKP and the HDP, during the elections
that they extraordinarily succeeded, to frame the state elite as despotic when the state …