| ID | 102358 |
| Title Proper | Political parallelism in Turkish press, a historical interpretation |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Bayram, Salih |
| Publication | 2010. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article reviews political parallelism in the Turkish press from a historical and comparative perspective, covering the period from the 1830s to the 2002 elections. Overall, political parallelism in the Turkish press is at moderate to high levels, placing it together with Mediterranean countries, and there is no single discernible trend from higher to lower parallelism. The modernization explanation positing less parallelism with modernization fails to capture the situation in the Turkish press. There is more parallelism when ideological polarization in the party system is high, when coalition governments rule the country instead of single party governments, and when cleavage voting is strong. Number of parties in the system does not seem to have the hypothesized relationship with parallelism. |
| `In' analytical Note | Turkish Studies Vol. 11, No. 4; Dec 2010: p.579 - 611 |
| Journal Source | Turkish Studies Vol. 11, No. 4; Dec 2010: p.579 - 611 |
| Key Words | Political Parallelism ; Turkey ; Modernization ; Turkish Press |