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Dixon, Jeffrey C.

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Where does Turkey belong? Examining Europeans' attitudes and liberal-democratic values in Turkey, the European Union, and the Muslim world.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Where does Turkey belong? Examining Europeans' attitudes and liberal-democratic values in Turkey, the European Union, and the Muslim world./
Author:	Dixon, Jeffrey C.
Description:	294 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-08, Section: A, page: 3169.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-08A.
Subject:	Political Science, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3229589
ISBN:	9780542811616

Where does Turkey belong? Examining Europeans' attitudes and liberal-democratic values in Turkey, the European Union, and the Muslim world.
Dixon, Jeffrey C.

Where does Turkey belong? Examining Europeans' attitudes and liberal-democratic values in Turkey, the European Union, and the Muslim world. - 294 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-08, Section: A, page: 3169.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2006.

Lying at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, Turkey is the former center of the Ottoman Empire and is today considered to be the "model Muslim democracy." Turkey's proposed entry into the European Union (EU) is part of larger academic and political debates on European identity, EU enlargement, and the compatibility of Islam and liberal democracy. This dissertation emphasizes the role of historical factors in shaping contemporary European identity, liberal democracy, and Turkey's image as an outsider. Synthesizing literature on American and European public opinion, it develops a theoretical and empirical model of attitudes toward EU enlargement, which stresses the contemporary importance of EU citizens' perceptions of Turkish-European cultural differences in explaining why they are opposed to Turkey's entry. Furthermore, it conceptualizes liberal-democratic values as multidimensional (comprised of democracy, rule of law, and minority rights), examines adherence to these values in Turkey, the EU, and the Muslim world today, as well as tests competing hypotheses of the sources of liberal-democratic values, including claims of a "clash of civilizations" between Islam and Western Christianity. Descriptive, factor, correlation, regression, and hierarchical modeling analyses are used on data from public opinion surveys in Turkey, 26 other EU member and candidate states, and nine other predominantly Muslim countries. The results show that Europeans perceive cultural differences between Turkey and themselves, which best accounts for their high levels of opposition to Turkey's EU application. While Turkey is culturally similar to Europe in that its people share favorable evaluations of democracy with people in the EU, people in Turkey are more supportive of authoritarian rule than those in both the EU and Muslim world. Turkish people's values regarding the separation of religion and state and ethnic tolerance are more similar to their counterparts in Muslim, rather than European Western Christian, countries. Country-level differences in economic development most consistently explain value differences. These findings inform the literature on European public opinion, fill a gap in sociological research on values especially in predominantly Muslim countries, highlight the distinction between people's abstract support of democracy and willingness to implement liberal democracy, and speak to important theoretical and policy-relevant debates.

ISBN: 9780542811616Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017391
Political Science, General.

Where does Turkey belong? Examining Europeans' attitudes and liberal-democratic values in Turkey, the European Union, and the Muslim world.
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