Yet Another Case of Electoral and Government Epidemic? The Turkish Cypriot Legislative Election of January 2018

Ahmet Sözen and Sertaç Sonan

South European Society and Politics, 2019, vol. 24, issue 1, 129-154

Abstract: Following Bosco and Verney’s analyses of ‘electoral’ and ‘government epidemics’, the 2018 Turkish Cypriot legislative election is examined in the context of the impact of the economic crisis on elections and government formation in southern Europe. Despite its obvious idiosyncrasies as a self-declared state with 335,000 inhabitants, in the last decade of economic crisis and austerity policies, the Turkish Cypriot case has followed a largely similar pattern to other southern European countries: declining turnout; emergence of start-up parties; three consecutive early elections; a more fragmented parliament; sidelining of the biggest party in government formation; the first ever grand coalition; and, finally, an unprecedented four-party coalition bringing together parties from left, right, and centre.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1537175

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