Democratic Deviations and Constitutional Changes: The Case of Turkey

Picarella Lucia
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Picarella Lucia: Universidad Católica de Colombia

Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2018, vol. 7, issue 2, 9-16

Abstract: This article shows through a descriptive-qualitative methodology as the recent Turkish constitutional reform is fully inserted in the context of the strong debate on the transformations of contemporary democracies. In particular, the analysis emphasizes the underlying danger of this constitutional change, because the established super-presidentialism drives a strong drift away from the consolidation / institutionalization of democracy. Our conclusions show the risk of authoritarian involution from the total centralization of powers in the hands of the leader, which will have consequences both internally, an area in which there will be a stronger radicalization, and at the supranational level, because the heavy rerouting freezes the integrationist dreams.

Keywords: Turkey; constitutional reform; democratic involution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.2478/ajis-2018-0041

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