Legitimacy, Efficiency and Power in Institutional Change: The Islamization of the Secular Civil Law in Turkey

• In Event: Party organization, Institutional Change & Democratic Backsliding in Turkey

Brief Overview

This study illustrates the roles of legitimacy, efficiency and power relations in formal institutional change by examining the Islamization of the secular civil marriage by the conservative AKP government in 2017.

Author

• Zeki Sarigil, Bilkent University