The Failure of Popular Constitution Making in Turkey: Regressing Towards Constitutional Autocracy (Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108740189 ISBN 13: 9781108740180

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Offers an in-depth case study of the failure of popular constitution making in Turkey from 2011 to 2013.

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About the Authors

Felix Petersen is the Minerva Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Richard Koebner Center for German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests include modern political thought, constitutional politics, theory of democracy, and German and Turkish politics. He is a co-author of the forthcoming book The Constitutional Court of Turkey: Judicial Politics between Authoritarianism and Democracy.

Zeynep Yanasmayan is a senior research fellow and coordinator of the Max Planck Society-funded research initiative 'The Challenges of Migration, Integration and Exclusion' at the Department of Law and Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Her research interests include migration and citizenship studies, governance of religious diversity, law and society and Turkish politics. She is the author of The Migration of Highly Educated Turkish Citizens to Europe: From Guestworkers to Global Talent (2019), and co-editor of Belief, Law and Politics: What Future for Secular Europe? (2014).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108740189
• ISBN 13: 9781108740180
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 428
• Editor: Petersen Felix