This thesis analyses the process of women&rsquo / s legislative recruitment in Turkey by
focusing on the interaction among the certain features of the Turkish political
system including the attitudes of the party elite toward the enhancement of
women&rsquo / s political representation. It has been demonstrated in earlier studies that
one of the reasons behind women&rsquo / s low level of parliamentary representation in
Turkey is the fact that the selectors in the political parties fail to support women
candidates adequately in the elections. Related to that, women&rsquo / s legislative
recruitment is also likely to be impeded by the unsupportive nature of the main
dynamics of political system such as political culture, party system and the
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electoral system. Considering the fact that these institutional and attitudinal
factors are highly inter-related with each other, the insufficient number of women
candidates nominated by the major social democratic party, the Republican
People&rsquo / s Party in the 1990s, including the latest national elections on November
3rd, 2002 calls for an analysis of not only the attitudes of the RPP selectors toward
positive discrimination mechanisms such as the quotas for women but also of the
relevant party institutional factors rooted in the Turkish political system. The
study contends that the RPP&rsquo / s women-friendly party culture and selectors&rsquo / positive perspectives towards women&rsquo / s political integration are not sufficient
factors for the promotion of women&rsquo / s legislative recruitment within the party. The
weakness of the intra-party democracy in the RPP which is particularly the result
of the oligarchic structure and the problems with institutionalization significantly
impede women&rsquo / s legislative recruitment within the party. The study has found that
the low level of women&rsquo / s legislative recruitment in the RPP is a consequence of
the interaction between the institutional and attitudinal factors within the RPP
which perpetuates patriarchal elite oligarchy in the nomination process. The
documented gap between the RPP&rsquo / s party rhetoric and practice in this study is
found as the reflection of the party&rsquo / s problems in internalizing social democratic
values.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605561/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 December 2004 |
| Creators | Adiguzel, Ozge |
| Contributors | Aslan Akman, Canan |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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