Clés pour la modernisation des institutions politiques

Abstract

The author uses the problematic of modernization to attempt to explain the Turkish political institutions. He first describes briefly the formal institutional framework as set up by the current Constitution. He then analyzes the way the Turks experience their transformation conveyed by ancestral myths. As a result a political culture emerges, a sort of unwritten Constitution that sustains and defines Turkish political life. According to the author, this accounts for both the strength and weakness of the experiment. © Le Seuil.