Parliamentary discussions in authoritarian contexts: Introducing a dataset on party responses to Turkey’s Gezi protests
This article introduces an original dataset on debates in the Turkish Grand Assembly before, during, and after the 2013 Gezi Protests, the biggest wave of demonstrations in Turkey’s history.
Publisert i Forskningspublikasjoner Torsdag 14. oktober, 2021 - 13:26 | sist oppdatert Torsdag 11. november, 2021 - 14:16
Forsker: Jonas Bergan Dræge
Abstract
This article introduces an original dataset on debates in the Turkish Grand Assembly before, during, and after the 2013 Gezi Protests, the biggest wave of demonstrations in Turkey’s history. The dataset contains 3478 coded interventions from a total of 230 days in parliament, between May 2012 and February 2014, and provides a unique insight into how political elites responded to the events, as well as the extent to which they addressed the main demands. The article describes the merits of this approach, and the practical steps to create such a dataset in Turkey and other Mediterranean countries. The article suggests that parliamentary debates are very useful for identifying and analysing political discussions and decision-making, as they reveal a level of nuance that alternative data sources do not provide, and track changes over time with a high degree of sensitivity.
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