Abstract
Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been the ruling and biggest party in Turkey (AKP) since it has been established in 2002 and Republican People’s Party (CHP) has been the main opposition party (CHP) since then. These two parties receive about 75% of all the votes and half of the voters are females. To our knowledge, there is no such a study focusing on women’s party preferences in Turkey. Additionally, this is one of the very few studies in Turkey concerning voters’ party preferences. Therefore, this study aims to fill this gap in the literature. In this study, the important attributes of women in party selection decisions are analyzed. Center-periphery and social mobility theories are the two main theories explaining Turkish political life. The analyzed ideological, cultural, religious, social, economic and demographic characteristics of women supporters are selected according to these theories. Machine-learning techniques are employed as predictive tools. Results show that ideological attitudes like being leftist-rightist and religious values like headscarf, fasting in Ramadan, and praying are the most important effective attributes on party selection of women. However, socioeconomic, cultural, educational and demographic atributes are not effective on party selection of women in Turkey.
Highlights
Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been the ruling and biggest party in Turkey (AKP) since it has been established in 2002 and Republican People’s Party (CHP) has been the main opposition party (CHP) since
A big part of the discussions that have been going on between Kemalists (Kemalism is the founding ideology of the Republic of Turkey.It was defined by sweeping political, social, cultural and religious reforms designed to separate the new Turkish state from its Ottoman predecessor and embrace a modernized lifestyle,including the establishment of democracy, secularism, and state support of the sciences and free education, many of which were first introduced to Turkey during Atatürk's presidency in his reforms (Wikipedia, n.d.) and Islamists in the recent years were related to the women topic
This study aims to determine the differences between AKP and CHP women voters that have been at the center of these discussions
Summary
Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been the ruling and biggest party in Turkey (AKP) since it has been established in 2002 and Republican People’s Party (CHP) has been the main opposition party (CHP) since . Los atributos socio-económicos, culturales, educativos y demográficos no son efectivos en la elección de partidos de las mujeres en Turquía. A big part of the discussions that have been going on between Kemalists (Kemalism is the founding ideology of the Republic of Turkey.It was defined by sweeping political, social, cultural and religious reforms designed to separate the new Turkish state from its Ottoman predecessor and embrace a modernized lifestyle,including the establishment of democracy, secularism, and state support of the sciences and free education, many of which were first introduced to Turkey during Atatürk's presidency in his reforms (Wikipedia, n.d.) and Islamists in the recent years were related to the women topic. Machine learning algorithms are employed as predictive tools This is one of the very few studies in Turkey concerning voters’ party preferences. There is no such a study focusing especially on women’s party preferences in Turkey
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