Strategic Coordination and Ethnic Minority Voting Behavior: The case of Kurds in Turkey

• In Event: Subnational Fragmentation and Local Politics: Tribal, Ethnic, and Electoral Dynamics in MENA

Brief Overview

This study newly incorporates Laitin's notion of strategic coordination to explain voting behavior by Kurdish communities in Turkey that defies both social identity and simplistic notions of rational voters using subdistrict and ballot level data.

Author

• Michael Wuthrich, University of Kansas