Democratization in the Middle East: Turkey–How Far From Consolidation?

Issue Date July 1996
Volume 7
Issue 3
Page Numbers 123-38
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About the Author

Ergun Özbudun is professor of political science at Bilkent University and vice-president of the Turkish Democracy Foundation in Ankara. He has taught at Columbia University and Princeton University, and is the author of Social Change and Political Participation in Turkey (1976).

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