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  title info:
    title: Social polarization and electoral incentives for Islamist de-moderation
    sub title: evidence from Turkish parliamentary debates
  name:
    name part: Kavasoglu, Berker
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: VerfasserIn
    role:
      role term: aut
  name:
    name part: Köhler, Kevin
    role:
      role term: VerfasserIn
    role:
      role term: aut
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 2026
    edition: Early access
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: Diagramme
    extent: 22
  abstract: The prospect of religious parties capturing power raises fundamental questions about the fate of secular state institutions. A prominent argument holds that participation in competitive elections incentivizes religious parties to moderate and set aside anti-systemic goals in order to maximize votes. We argue that deep-seated social polarization along the religious-secular cleavage fundamentally alters electoral incentives: when polarization is high, intensifying competition shifts the vote-maximizing strategy from centrist, broad appeals to religion-based appeals. Using a unique corpus of legislative interventions from Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), we scale legislators' position on the religious - secular dimension. Exploiting cross-district variation in polarization and legislator-level differences in electoral vulnerability, we demonstrate that increasing exposure to electoral competition prompts representatives from polarized districts to adopt stronger Islamist appeals. Thus, the link between competitive elections and the incentives of religious party elites to accommodate secular institutional constraints is contingent upon societal polarization along the religious-secular divide.
  note: Berker Kavasoglu and Kevin Koehler
  note: Online veröffentlicht am 19. Januar 2026
  note: Gesehen am 17.03.2026
  subject:
    topic: AGE
  subject:
    topic: CONSEQUENCES
  subject:
    topic: DEMOCRACY
  subject:
    topic: inclusion-moderation thesis
  subject:
    topic: INSTITUTIONS
  subject:
    topic: Islamist parties
  subject:
    topic: JUSTICE
  subject:
    topic: large language models
  subject:
    topic: polarization
  subject:
    topic: POPULISM
  subject:
    topic: RELIGIOUS PARTIES
  subject:
    topic: SYSTEMS
  subject:
    topic: text analysis
  subject:
    topic: the justice and development party
  subject:
    topic: VIRTUE
  classification: 16
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Democratization
    name:
      name part: Social polarization and electoral incentives for Islamist de-moderation evidence from Turkish parliamentary debates
    origin info:
      publisher: Ilford, Essex : Cass, 1994
    physical description:
      extent: Online-Ressource
    identifier: 1743-890X
    identifier: (DE-627)349876037
    identifier: (DE-600)2081560-8
    identifier: (DE-576)10035811X
    part:
      text: (2026), Seite [1]-22
  related item:
    name:
      name part: Social polarization and electoral incentives for Islamist de-moderation evidence from Turkish parliamentary debates
    part:
      text: year:2026
    part:
      text: pages:1-22
    part:
      text: extent:22
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2026.2612725
  record info:
    record content source: DE-627
    record creation date: 260316
    record change date: 20260317151809.0
    record identifier: 1965337481
    language of cataloging:
      language term: ger