Contemporary Turkish Politics: Challenges to Democratic Consolidation

Finding the three breakdowns of democracy and three retransitions to it since 1945 to be a rich laboratory in which to study the process, +zbudun (political science, Bilkent U., Turkey) analyzes the politics of the period. He points out the challenges of promises to departing military governments, a fragmented party system, the rise of political Islam, and the Kurdish separatist movement, but predicts that democracy will continue in a weak form rather than collapse again. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)