The Turkish Case: The Lack of Societal Pressure to Modify Secular Marriage Policy

Niva Golan-Nadir ()
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Niva Golan-Nadir: The University at Albany, SUNY

Chapter Chapter 8 in Public Preferences and Institutional Designs, 2022, pp 183-214 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Golan-Nadir presents the puzzle of the absence of public pressure against current marriage policy in the Turkish case. This chapter contains two sections. The first section aims to establish the existence of a disparity between the official secular marriage policy and public preference on marriage. The data supporting this claim includes existing public opinion surveys, state statistics, and the findings of the 2016 Public Opinion Survey on Marriage Policy designed and conducted for this research. Next, using a newspaper archival review and identifying thematic clusters, this chapter further shows that this enduring gap, however, has not generated public demand/pressure for policy change in this realm. This is despite the fact that, evidently, Turkish civil society is active in other realms in state–religion relations.

Keywords: Marriage; Societal pressure; 2016 public opinion survey on marriage policy; Newspaper archival review; Thematic clusters; Turkey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-84554-4_8

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