nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230602-111131-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230602s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230602-111131-0 doi eng 342 23 Kurban, Dilek Author aut Boiling the Frog - Why Turkish Elections Have Not Been Competitive for Decades Kurban, Dilek Verfassungsblog 2023-06-02 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In the wake of Turkey's recent presidential elections, previous blogposts objected to characterizing authoritarian regimes such as Turkey, Hungary and India as ‘competitive’ solely by virtue of regular elections, which are formally free but fundamentally unfair. However, this blogpost argues that the prior ones missed the main problem in Turkey: The playing field in Turkey is not only “massively tilted in favor of Erdogan” now; it has always been tilted in favor of the majority – long before Erdoğan. This blogpost discusses the slow death of Turkish electoral competitiveness. First, I describe the politico-legal context that enabled Erdogan’s rise. Second, I contrast the developments in Turkey regarding election competitiveness to European legal standards and strikingly late political demands. CC BY-SA 4.0 Democratic Backsliding election Electoral threshold Erdogan Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/boiling-the-frog/ raw object