Why Erdogan Can Ruin Turkey’s Economy by Himself

Why One Man Can Ruin Turkey’s Economy Did Erdogan break Turkish politics by empowering the presidency—or was it broken already? By Steven A. Cook, a columnist at Foreign Policy and the Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. DECEMBER 13, 2021, 5:43 AM With the waves of democratization in Latin America and Eastern Europe in the 1980s and 1990s, social scientists could put to the test a long-running debate in political science: which system is superior in sustaining democracies, presidential or parliamentary? Beginning in 1985, a Yale University professor named Juan Linz argued that parliamentarism was better. Academic debates ensued, and subsequent research indicated that the case for parliamentarism is not as categorical as Linz suggested. More:Why Erdogan Can Ruin Turkey’s Economy by Himself