Edip Asaf Bekaroğlu earned his PhD in political science at Bilkent University, Turkey in 2010. Since then, he has worked as a full time faculty member at İstanbul University’s Department of Political Science and International Relations. His research interests are democratization, political parties and elections, secularism, and multiculturalism. Gülsen Kaya Osmanbaşoğlu earned her PhD in political science at Bilkent University in 2014. She is a faculty member at the Social Sciences University of Ankara, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, and the deputy director of Social Innovation Center (ASBU11 SIM). Her research interests are Turkish politics, political parties and elections, modernization, human rights, and social innovation.

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• ContentsList of figuresList of tablesNotes on contributorsAcknowledgments1. Introduction to Turkey’s electoral geography: an overview since 1950Edip Asaf Bekaroğlu and Gülsen Kaya Osmanbaşoğlu2. Measuring party nationalization in Turkey: 1950–2018Özhan Demirkol and& Edip Asaf Bekaroğlu3. Gerrymandering in Turkish elections since 1950: (re)setting the rules of the game?Gülsen Kaya Osmanbaşoğlu4. The dynamics of change and differentiation in voter preferences in the western coastal provinces of Turkey since the 1980sTanju Tosun, Betül Aydoğan Ünal, and Gülgün Erdoğan Tosun5. The regional and national campaign discourse of the PDP and its predecessors in Turkey’s general elections, 2002–2018Hüseyin Alptekin6. ‘"Where are they doing politics?"’: women’s cooperatives as sites of constellations of powerSelin Akyüz and Kürşat Çınar7. Election monitoring organizations in view of electoral geography: regional characteristics of volunteer networks in TurkeyAyşenur Kılıç8. Engendering the parliament: a study of women deputies in Turkey, 1935–2018Mezher Yüksel9. An analysis of Turkish overseas electoral districts: opportunities and challengesNecati Anaz and Mehmet Köse

Edip Asaf Bekaroğlu earned his PhD in political science at Bilkent University, Turkey in 2010. Since then, he has worked as a full time faculty member at İstanbul University’s Department of Political Science and International Relations. His research interests are democratization, political parties and elections, secularism, and multiculturalism. Gülsen Kaya Osmanbaşoğlu earned her PhD in political science at Bilkent University in 2014. She is a faculty member at the Social Sciences University of Ankara, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, and the deputy director of Social Innovation Center (ASBU11 SIM). Her research interests are Turkish politics, political parties and elections, modernization, human rights, and social innovation.

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• ContentsList of figuresList of tablesNotes on contributorsAcknowledgments1. Introduction to Turkey’s electoral geography: an overview since 1950Edip Asaf Bekaroğlu and Gülsen Kaya Osmanbaşoğlu2. Measuring party nationalization in Turkey: 1950–2018Özhan Demirkol and& Edip Asaf Bekaroğlu3. Gerrymandering in Turkish elections since 1950: (re)setting the rules of the game?Gülsen Kaya Osmanbaşoğlu4. The dynamics of change and differentiation in voter preferences in the western coastal provinces of Turkey since the 1980sTanju Tosun, Betül Aydoğan Ünal, and Gülgün Erdoğan Tosun5. The regional and national campaign discourse of the PDP and its predecessors in Turkey’s general elections, 2002–2018Hüseyin Alptekin6. ‘"Where are they doing politics?"’: women’s cooperatives as sites of constellations of powerSelin Akyüz and Kürşat Çınar7. Election monitoring organizations in view of electoral geography: regional characteristics of volunteer networks in TurkeyAyşenur Kılıç8. Engendering the parliament: a study of women deputies in Turkey, 1935–2018Mezher Yüksel9. An analysis of Turkish overseas electoral districts: opportunities and challengesNecati Anaz and Mehmet Köse

Edip Asaf Bekaroğlu earned his PhD in political science at Bilkent University, Turkey in 2010. Since then, he has worked as a full time faculty member at İstanbul University’s Department of Political Science and International Relations. His research interests are democratization, political parties and elections, secularism, and multiculturalism. Gülsen Kaya Osmanbaşoğlu earned her PhD in political science at Bilkent University in 2014. She is a faculty member at the Social Sciences University of Ankara, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, and the deputy director of Social Innovation Center (ASBU11 SIM). Her research interests are Turkish politics, political parties and elections, modernization, human rights, and social innovation.

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• ContentsList of figuresList of tablesNotes on contributorsAcknowledgments1. Introduction to Turkey’s electoral geography: an overview since 1950Edip Asaf Bekaroğlu and Gülsen Kaya Osmanbaşoğlu2. Measuring party nationalization in Turkey: 1950–2018Özhan Demirkol and& Edip Asaf Bekaroğlu3. Gerrymandering in Turkish elections since 1950: (re)setting the rules of the game?Gülsen Kaya Osmanbaşoğlu4. The dynamics of change and differentiation in voter preferences in the western coastal provinces of Turkey since the 1980sTanju Tosun, Betül Aydoğan Ünal, and Gülgün Erdoğan Tosun5. The regional and national campaign discourse of the PDP and its predecessors in Turkey’s general elections, 2002–2018Hüseyin Alptekin6. ‘"Where are they doing politics?"’: women’s cooperatives as sites of constellations of powerSelin Akyüz and Kürşat Çınar7. Election monitoring organizations in view of electoral geography: regional characteristics of volunteer networks in TurkeyAyşenur Kılıç8. Engendering the parliament: a study of women deputies in Turkey, 1935–2018Mezher Yüksel9. An analysis of Turkish overseas electoral districts: opportunities and challengesNecati Anaz and Mehmet Köse