Modern demokrasilerde siyasal konuşma üzerine bir eleştiri: Türkiye'de siyasal konuşma biçimleri ve demokratik süreçler
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Doğanay, Ülkü, A Critical Approach To the Political Discussion in Modern Democracies: The Practices of Political Discussion and the Democratic Process in Turkey, Ph D. Thesis, Advisor: Doç. Dr. Kscr Koker, 314 p. ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to discover the limits of, and possibilities offered by "public discussion" to transcend the crisis of modern democracy through "effective citizen participation ". The major concerns of the study are to disclose the mechanisms restricting the democratic capacity of deliberative public practices, and to define the discoursive strategies which have the potential efficiency to overcome these restrictions. Within this framework, the models of deliberative democracy whose main political strategy is to revitalise the democratic experiences and legitimise "democratic participation " with public talk/discussion, are taken as the starting point. In the first part of the study, "democratic legitimacy" is conceptually defined within the framework of the theories about the crisis of democracy and the solutions proposed by models of deliberative democracy. Furthermore, an interdisciplinary approach is adopted bridging the findings of the studies in different areas such as research on the deliberative experiences, discoursive processes and broadcast media. In the second part, it is attempted to define the relationship between democracy and public deliberation experiences in Turkey. First, the basic conceptualisations about democratic legitimacy and the value of the democratic public discussions in Turkish politics are examined. Then, the discursive construction of the social hierarchies of power in different areas of public discussion; i.e. the civil society organisations; local experiences of citizen participation and the television talk show programs, is studied. 317This study revealed that, the mainstream approach in Turkish politics which reduces democracy merely to the formal arrangements draws the dominant pattern of public deliberation. It is seen that the dominating discoursive strategies in the observed cases, instead of mobilising the active citizen participation, function to maintain the existing power relations in society. 318