How "black" is the black sheep compared to all others? Turkey and the EU

İbrahim Semih Akçomak () and Saeed Parto ()
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Saeed Parto: Faculty of Environmental Studies, University of Waterloo

No 24, UNU-MERIT Working Paper Series from United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and social Research and training centre on Innovation and Technology

Abstract: In this paper we question the validity of the arguments against Turkey's membership of the EU and challenge the political wisdom of excluding Turkey from Europe. First, we argue that fundamental European values are not as uniform as they are made out to be. There are significant differences among the member states and the different European regions on basic values relating to religion and democracy. Second, we argue that many of Turkey's supposed cultural differences with the rest of Europe are in fact unsubstantiated. We support our arguments by analyzing widely available macroeconomic evidence and the data from the European Values Study, 1999 (EVS99).

Keywords: Turkey; EU; Institutions; Institutional Analysis; Values; EVS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 Z12 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cwa and nep-eec
Date: 2006
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