Alliance types, election types, and electoral coordination in Turkey (2018–2024)
Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 2026 (SSCI, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Basım Tarihi: 2026
- Doi Numarası: 10.1080/14683857.2026.2749618
- Dergi Adı: Southeast European and Black Sea Studies
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, IBZ Online, Historical Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, Index Islamicus, Political Science Complete, Public Affairs Index, Political Science Abstract (IPSA), Social Sciences Abstracts, Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO), Humanities Source Ultimate (EBSCO), Sociology Source Ultimate (EBSCO)
- Anahtar Kelimeler: alliance type × election type interaction, Electoral alliances, presidential systems, Turkey, voter-level coordination
- Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Turkey’s post-2017 transition to a presidential system made electoral coordination systemic. With executive office requiring an absolute majority, competition organized around blocs, and both camps contested elections through formal alliances from 2018 to 2023. This article asks what becomes of bloc coordination once the institutional alliance sustaining it dissolves. Having abandoned formal alliance after its 2023 defeat, the opposition nonetheless retained and extended in the 2024 local elections the metropolitan positions won under alliance in 2019. Alliance effectiveness depends on the interaction between alliance type and election type. Presidential and parliamentary contests reward elite-level coordination, whereas local elections open space for voter-level, or grassroots, coordination that can reproduce what an institutional alliance would deliver. Drawing on province- and district-level results, the article shows this substitution to be real but partial and conditional, holding where the local arena and a credible candidate let voters converge across parties.