Compliance and Push-back: Politicization of Turkey’s Civil Society and Interest Groups under Autocratization

This short article centers on the transformation of civil society and interest groups under the gradual and piecemeal process of democratic erosion. What happens to a formerly pluralistic civil society under steady democratic decline? How do interest groups respond under political repression? How do they adapt to remain relevant? I address these questions through the case of Turkey where gradual democratic erosion has resulted in regime change from electoral democracy to electoral autocracy