Keywords: Elections
Post-election Turkey returns to economic orthodoxy Evaluation Note / Güven Sak
19/02/2024
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is eyeing economic revival by turning the country back toward conventional policies and partnership with the West.
In a nutshell
Reelected President Erdogan seeks to lower inflation, restore investor trust
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Presidential Debate: Obama Snaps Back Hard Washington Agenda / Roger Simon, Chief Political Columnist at the POLITICO
19/10/2012
"As well as Barack Obama did in his second presidential debate — and he did very well, indeed - - you still have to ask yourself one question: Why didn’t he do it in his first debate?
If, 12 days ago at the University of Denver, Obama had
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US in the Election Mood; Developments Discussed at TEPAV During a meeting that hosted Dr. Bülent Alirıza, of US based think-tank CSIS, how domestic politics in the US are being dominated by the November 2012 elections was addressed.
22/11/2011
ANKARA – Developments in the US one year before the elections were addressed during a meeting held at TEPAV on November 22, 2011.
The meeting, which hosted Dr. Bülent Alirıza, Turkey Project Director at the Washington-based Center for Stra
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TEPAV: “Fairness in Representation Deteriorates” TEPAV published a policy note titled "The Impact of the Election Threshold on the Parliamentary Structure in June 12, 2011 Elections".
14/06/2011
ANKARA- TEPAV stressed that even though the 2011 election appears to be fairer on the basis of the compared to the 2002 and 2007 elections, the cumulative impact of the election threshold as high as 10% turned small parties into signboard parties f
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Commentary/Esen Çağlar: An assessment of the economic opening of CHP TEPAV Economic Policy Analyst Esen Çağlar assessed the election studies of the main opposition party announced following the election manifesto of the AKP.
25/04/2011
The commentary assessed:
"Following the election manifesto the AKP (Justice and Development Party) announced on April 16, the CHP (Republican People's Party) declared an economic program for 2023 on Wednesday, April 20 and an election manifesto on
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Commentary/Esen Çağlar: Does the AKP’s Plan for 2023 ensure 8.48 percent annual growth? TEPAV Economic Policy Analyst Esen Çağlar assessed the recently announced election manifesto of the AKP.
19/04/2011
The assessment said: "The most favorable aspect of the manifesto is that a debate with a perspective for 2023 has been brought forward on the popular agenda for the first time. We can conclude that the manifesto serves good purposes if we approac
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TEPAV: "The YSK Regulations on the Election System are Insufficient" TEPAV policy note maintained that the regulation attempted by the YSK on February 26, 2011 to improve "fairness" is appropriate but insufficient.
13/04/2011
ANKARA- TEPAV stated that the regulation introduced by the Higher Election Council (YSK) upon the calls of Constitutional to recalculate the number of MPs for each region was appropriate but insufficient to improve fairness. The note maintained
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TEPAV: “Optimal Election Threshold for Turkey is 4 Percent” TEPAV's study revealed that an election threshold at 4 percent improves "fair representation" without making large concessions from the "consistency in administration" and calculated how the MPs by parties would have changed if 2007 elections had been held with a threshold at 4 percent.
21/03/2011
ANKARA- TEPAV, declared that the optimal level of election threshold for Turkey was 4 percent. The study revealed that if the election threshold, which became a major issue on the agenda along with the constitution debates, is lowered from 10 perce
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TEPAV: “Unmissable Opportunity to Solve the Constitutional Problem” Assoc. Prof. Levent Gönenç said: "A well-designed constitution making process, which should be evaluated in the light of Prime Minister Erdoğan's quoted statement, can turn out to be a new and unmissable opportunity for Turkey to solve its constitutional problem."
25/01/2011
ANKARA- Assoc. Prof. Levent Gönenç of Ankara University Faculty of Law, taking departure from Prime Minister Erdoğan's recent statement on the constitution making process, assessed that a constitution making process to be designed with the parti
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Evaluation Note / Neslihan Kaptanoğlu Results of the Israeli Elections: Peace Supporters are Losing Power in the Knesset
26/02/2009
The Israeli elections held on February 10, 2009 in the shadow of the Gaza crisis further complicated the leadership problem in the Middle East rather than solving it. The majority from the previous elections of 2009, supporting a two-state solution
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