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This chapter aims to assess the varying dynamics of social progress in Turkey and Turkish society in the context of the politics of modernization. To this end, a study was conducted by focusing on historical and recent developments, to elaborate on existing tensions and inequalities. The political regime fluctuations in Turkey were presented via the POLITY IV and Freedom House databases. To better understand social progress, comparative results from the Human Development Reports (UNDP 2014) and the Better Life Index (OECD 2014a) were discussed in detail, in addition to economic development. Finally, a micro-level analysis was performed to show how socioeconomic and demographic factors in Turkey affect human development at the individual level.
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he Polity IV dataset covers all major, independent states in the global system over the period 1800–2013, based on a research project launched by Ted Robert Gurr in the 1970s. The project aimed to measure political system durability and today the project’s main index is a measure of the degree of democracy and autocracy. The project is currently under the direction of Monty G. Marshall at the Center for Systemic Peace and George Mason University, (Marshall and Jaggers 2014).
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Karatay, A., Erdoğan, E., Semerci, P.U., Müderrisoğlu, S. (2016). Turkey in Between: The Continuing Search for Development. In: Tiliouine, H., Estes, R. (eds) The State of Social Progress of Islamic Societies. International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24774-8_10
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