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In Pursuit of "Contemporary Civilization": Judicial Empowerment in Turkey

¹ University of Missouri-Kansas City
² University of Minnesota

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: hootan2{at}sbcglobal.net.

	Abstract

Turkey’s powerful Constitutional Court serves as an administrative attaché of state elites in overseeing the political arena and transforming the society. Looking at the courts as administrative agents suggests that the ruling elite might turn to courts not in an attempt to safeguard their immediate interests, but to transform the society by extending the reach of the state. The authors contend that in countries where the state pursues a civilizing mission, judicial empowerment is an attractive tool for defending the state against powerful segments of the society who might subscribe to different civilizing projects.

First published on September 22, 2009, doi:10.1177/1065912909346741

Political Research Quarterly 2009;62:767.

A more recent version of this article appeared on December 1, 2009


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