ISTANBUL POLICY CENTER-SABANCI UNIVERSITY-STIFTUNG MERCATOR INITIATIVE and INSTITUT FRANCAIS D’ETUDES ANATOLIENNES cordially invite you to the book launch of
“Negotiating Political Power in Turkey – Breaking up the Party” edited by Elise Massicard (Institut Français d’Etudes Anatoliennes) and Nicole F. Watts (San Francisco State University)
The event is hosted by Ayşe Kadıoğlu (Dean of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sabancı University & IPC Senior Scholar)
Thursday, October 10, 2013, 18.30-20.00
Istanbul Policy Center, 6th floor
About the book:
This edited collection looks at how political parties in Turkey actually work, inside and out. Departing from traditional macro-level analyses, the book offers a new sociological approach to the study of political parties, treating them as non-unitary entities composed of many different groups and individuals who both cooperate and compete with one another.
The central proposition of the book is that parties must be studied as clusters of relationships in specific locales rather than as unitary ‘black boxes.’ This ground-up approach provides new insights into the internal workings of political parties; why parties gain and lose elections and other political resources; and the ways in which power is negotiated and exercised in Turkey and beyond.
The event will be held in English and take place in the form of a casual dinner. Please send your RSVP to Gülcihan Çiğdem until October 7, 2013 (e-mail gcigdem@sabanciuniv.edu, (212) 292 4939 ext. 1417).