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Fairness in the Apportionment of Seats in the Turkish Legislature: Is There Room For Improvement?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Ali Çarkoğlu  and
Emre Erdoğan
Ali Çarkoğlu
Affiliation:
Boğaziçi University, Department of Political Science and International Relations; e-mail:carkogla@boun.edu.trand, erdoga@boun.edu.tr
Emre Erdoğan
Affiliation:
Boğaziçi University, Department of Political Science and International Relations; e-mail:carkogla@boun.edu.trand, erdoga@boun.edu.tr
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As new elections approach, Turkish political agenda is once again dominated by discussions of election systems and impending changes in the existing one. These discussions are not without consequence. Since the first competitive and fair elections of 1950, twelve general elections have been held and a total of 37 legislative arrangements concerning elections have been implemented. Three of those were passed by the parliament just before the December 1995 elections (Tuncer, 1997, 5). The new early election, expected to be held in April 1999, seems to be no exception to this general pattern. Besides incessant attention in the media paid to the characteristics of the existing election system in Turkey and their political consequences, a number of publications appeared over the past few years following the 1995 election that reflect an intense debate about how the election system should be changed.

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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 19 , fall 1998 , pp. 97 - 124
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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 1998

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