Symbolic Politics of Intersectional Representation: Women's Identities and Nominations as an Electoral Competition Strategy in Polarized Turkey

• In Event: Race, Gender and Stereotypes

Brief Overview

I argue that party elites leverage women’s intersectional identities as an election competition strategy and find that the Islamist AKP leverages stereotypes associated with secular-appearing women to appeal to voters of the secularist CHP.

Author

• Elif Sari Genc, Portland State University