Death of Turkish Democracy: The “Turkish-Style” Presidential System
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PhD Candidate, Faculty of Political Science and International Studies University of Warsaw
Publication date: 2021-10-28
Studia Politologiczne 2021;61
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ABSTRACT
Turkey has adopted the presidential system over parliamentarism in 2018 with
the promise that the new system would bring more stability, democracy, and economic
growth. As being the most recent country which changed its government system through
a referendum to presidentialism, Turkey constitutes a very important example to be analyzed
in order to see the effects of it after a long-adopted parliamentary period in the 21st century.
This paper compares the basic features of democracy as well as the democratic presidential
systems with the example of Turkey and aims at finding out if the presidentialism has
performed well and if not, why, in the light of examples and chosen indicators. Findings
of this study suggest that presidential system led to a “consolidation of power” which in its
nature is anti-democratic. Analysis of certain indicators show that presidentialism did not
perform well in Turkey on democratic, political as well as economic fronts.
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