Political Repression and Party Institutionalization

• In Event: Parties and Polarization Across Different Types of Regimes

Brief Overview

Repression forced Young Turks to invest in defensive strategies and obstructed the formation of mass-mobilizing party. I exploit a natural experiment to analyze how the CUP executed the 1908 Constitutional Revolution in the Ottoman Empire.

Author

• Firat Kimya, Swarthmore College