Closing Ranks: Support for the Incumbent Party’s Candidate in the June 2019 Istanbul Mayoral Elections

• In Event: Democracy, Elections, and Party Politics

Brief Overview

We examine the assumption that lower level elections are a referendum on the incumbent president in the context of the mayoral elections in Istanbul, Turkey in June of 2019.

Authors

• Tijen Demirel-Pegg, IUPUI

• Aaron Dusso, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis