Outputs (2)

Guardianship and Democracy in Iran and Turkey: Tutelary Consolidation, Popular Contestation (2024)
Book
Akkoyunlu, F. K. (2024). Guardianship and Democracy in Iran and Turkey: Tutelary Consolidation, Popular Contestation. Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399506120

This book offers the first comparative study of the foundations, consolidation and contestation of regime guardianship in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Turkey. For decades, the military in Turkey and the clergy in Iran acted as the... Read More about Guardianship and Democracy in Iran and Turkey: Tutelary Consolidation, Popular Contestation.

Blood gambit: how autocratizing populists fuel ethnic conflict to reverse election setbacks – evidence from Turkey and Israel (2024)
Journal Article
Akkoyunlu, K., & Sarfati, Y. (2025). Blood gambit: how autocratizing populists fuel ethnic conflict to reverse election setbacks – evidence from Turkey and Israel. Democratization, 32(2), 538-560. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2024.2381686

Through a comparative study of Turkey and Israel, this article highlights a specific strategy that autocratizing populist incumbents in ethnically divided societies utilize when they face election setbacks. A “blood gambit” entails fomenting violent... Read More about Blood gambit: how autocratizing populists fuel ethnic conflict to reverse election setbacks – evidence from Turkey and Israel.