Discourse, Values and Voting: Political Value Priorities of the Turkish Public

Authors : Aynur Köse, Fatih Kezer, Mustafa Yılmaz, Eylem Arslan

Pages : 244-259

Doi:10.33206/mjss.1479594

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Publication Date : 2025-01-15

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :There are many approaches to analyzing past elections in critical countries, but no valid standardized method yet. The significant effort focuses on the uncommitted voters in the studies and how they were won. This paper investigates the elections in the Republic of Turkey between 2002-2011. It focuses on determining the level of attitudes and expectations of Turkish voters based on the value priority of politics. The investigation answers how people voted as they did based on their gender, age, education, income and region. A quantitative research method has been designed to establish a correlation among these variables by collecting data from 4268 voters. The findings resulted in the formation of an analysis method, called the Scale of Political Values. The scale has three sub-dimensions: the first one is stability and order-oriented, strong power expectation, the second is developmental, honest, solution-oriented policy expectation, and the last is strong leadership expectation. Increasing age and decreasing education and income levels resulted in an increased strong power expectation. As age, education, and income levels increased, the expectation for developmental, honest, solution-oriented policy received the highest score. This dimension had a linear relation to age, education, and income level. Gender did not affect both sub-dimensions.
Keywords : Değer, siyasal söylem, oy verme, Türkiye politikası, seçim