Browsing by Subject "Occupygezi"
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Determinants of young people's civic and political participation in Turkey
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Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017)This special section provides a timely reflection on current debates that are of extreme relevance in order to gain a better understanding of the concepts of citizenship and active citizenship in Turkey by looking at the determinants of civic and political participation at the patterns of political and civic mobilization and at the orientations of political behaviour. Its originality stands on the specific focus on young people in comparison to other age groups. The different papers remark upon ...
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Youth activists and occupygezi: patterns of social change in public policy and in civic and political activism in Turkey
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Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017)The research puzzle that our paper focuses on is the struggle of youth organizations to have their voice heard in public policy processes. We examine the implications of occupygezi in establishing or not a new relationship with the political domain and policy makers in Turkey. By drawing on a policy analysis framework this paper looks at whether occupygezi opened up new windows of opportunities for social and political change for youth activists in Turkey. In doing so we rely upon the results of ...
