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The article explores gender equality policy processes in Turkey's opposition-controlled municipalities faced with a national government that has an anti-gender equality stance in an authoritarian populist context. Based on interview data and documentary review, we identify four factors that facilitate and hinder gender equality policies and argue that the interaction between political party ideology and mayors' individual perceptions creates spaces for gender mainstreaming processes in which gender experts play a key role. Gender mainstreaming plays an enabling role by improving policy capacity, diffusing gender awareness and in some cases changing politicians' perceptions of electoral prospects; however, adversarial inter-governmental interactions hinder transformative actions although the latter carry the potential for future politicisation in feminist terms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article argues that the evolution of the Europeanization research program and that of the literature on Turkey has come evolved incongruously. The article identifies the limits of this interaction, investigates the conceptual, theoretical and methodological origins of these limits, and concludes that such incongruence may be overcome by cross-utilization of the conceptual, theoretical, methodological, and research design tools offered by the Europeanization research program more effectively in studying Turkey. Doing so will allow studying the exclusive impact of the EU on the processes of transformation in Turkey by isolating its transformative role from the impact of other domestic dynamics and international factors. Key Words: Europeanization Research Program, Turkey, Comparative Case Study, Intervening Variables, Mechanisms. Bu makale Avrupa entegrasyonu calismalarinin Avrupalilasma yazini yonunde evrilmesiyle Turkiye'deki Avrupalilasma calismalarinin gelisimi arasinda bir kopukluk oldugu gozleminden yola cikmaktadir. Calisma bu etkilesimin sinirliliklarini tespit ettikten sonra, bu sinirliliklarin kavramsal, kuramsal ve yontemsel kokenlerini incelemektedir. Soz konusu sinirliliklarin asilabilmesi icin Avrupalilasma yaziniyla ortaya cikan kavramsal, kuramsal ve yontemsel yeniliklerin Turkiye'yi calisirken etkin bir bicimde kullanilmasinin gerekliligine dikkat cekilmektedir. Bu tur bir uygulamanin Turkiye'deki donusumun uzerindeki AB etkisini diger ic dinamikler ve dis faktorlerden ayirt etme imkanini yaratacagini vurgulanmaktadir. Bu degerlendirmeyi yaparken ozellikle Turkiye'yi konu alan yazinin kuramsal yaklasimlar, kapsam, ara degiskenler, mekanizmalar ve arastirma tasarimi acisindan gelisimini analiz edilmektedir. Anahtar Kelimeler: Avrupalilasma Arastirma Programi,Turkiye, Karsilastirmali Vaka Analizi, Ara Degiskenler, Mekanizmalar., Giris Bu calismanin temel amaci Avrupa entegrasyon kuraminda son yillarda guclenen, ucuncu ve son kusagi temsil eden Avrupalilasma arastirma programi cercevesinde, Turkiye'yi konu alan yazinin sinirlarini ortaya koymak, bu sinirlarin [...]

This article applies the concept of 'policy styles' to Turkey in order to contribute to the scholarly debate on the relationship between policy styles and political regime. By uncovering the distinctive features of Turkey's policy processes through a within-case comparative approach, I advance two arguments. First, while policy styles are commonly viewed in literature as determined by administrative traditions, political institutions and policy paradigms, Turkey's policy style has been more responsive to electoral politics, and, until recently, problem situation, in particular crises. Second, policy style is both a cause and a consequence of regime change. Turkey's policy style has displayed both continuities as well as differences as it descended into authoritarianism. The characteristics of the policy style gradually undermine institutions of democracy. As democratic backsliding proceeds, government redesigns the institutional context of policy-making, reinforcing and consolidating the anti-democratic features of the policy style. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]